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The Role of Cash Transfers in Social Protection, Humanitarian Response and Shock-Responsive Social Protection

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Cash transfers have expanded rapidly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) around the world in the past decade. The contexts in which they are implemented have also diversified; while cash transfers were mostly adopted initially as central elements of social protection systems, they have become increasingly popular as a core component of humanitarian response.

Light-Touch Mapping of SDC Activities in Social Protection

Social protection is not explicitly mentioned as part of SDC’s strategic objectives 2017-2020 or listed as a SDC priority theme (as...

‘Hot Topics’ in Social Protection

Social protection has become an inherent element of the development response and is one of the success stories of development policy in...

‘Cash Plus’: Linking Cash Transfers to Services and Sectors

Published by: UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti

Cash transfers have been successful in reducing food insecurity, increasing consumption, building resiliency against economic shocks, improving productivity and increasing school enrolment. Despite the many successes of cash transfer programmes, they can also fall short of achieving longer-term and second-order impacts related to nutrition, learning and health outcomes. A recent study highlights how so-called ‘Cash Plus’ programmes, which offer additional components or linkages to existing services on top of regular cash payments, may help address such shortcomings.

Money and the Message: The Role of Training and Coaching in Graduation Programming

Published by: Taylor & Francis Online

Graduation programmes are innovative because they combine regular cash transfers with livelihood promotion and – most innovatively – a combination of training and tailored coaching. The latter is sometimes considered the ‘X-factor’ in the graduation model, but little evidence exists regarding its role in affecting change. This paper presents findings from a mixed methods evaluation of a graduation programme in Burundi. We find that (i) training and coaching are important complements to cash and material support in achieving positive change, (ii) positive effects extend to the wider community, and (iii) continuous, tailored, and positively engaging modes of messaging are imperative for achieving change.

Fonkoze’s CLM Ultra Poverty Programme: Understanding and Improving Child Development and Wellbeing

This report represents baseline findings from a quantitative evaluation assessing the impact of Fonkoze’s Chemen Lavi Miyò (CLM) programme, or 'the pathway to a better life' programme, on child wellbeing in Haiti. The CLM programme is a so-called ‘graduation programme’, aiming to set people on a sustainable pathway out of poverty.

Workshop: “Pathways to Stronger Futures: economic strengthening and childhood development”

This workshop was organised as part of a new research project seeking to understand linkages between economic strengthening through comprehensive social protection and childhood development in Haiti.