From evidence to action : the story of cash transfers and impact evaluation in Sub-Saharan Africa

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From evidence to action : the story of cash transfers and impact evaluation in Sub-Saharan Africa

edited by Benjamin Davis ... [et al.]

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations , United Nations Children's Fund (unicef) , Oxford University Press, 2016

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Other editors: Sudhanshu Handa, Nicola Hypher, Natalia Winder Rossi, Paul Winters, and Jennifer Yablonski

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Impact evaluations must be embedded in the ongoing process of policy and programme design in order to be effective in influencing country policy. This is the primary lesson found in this book, which is based on the rigorous impact evaluations and country-case study analysis of government-run cash transfer programmes undertaken in eight Sub-Saharan African countries (Kenya, Ghana, Ethiopia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Malawi, South Africa) evaluated as part of the Transfer Project and From Protection to Production Project. The impact evaluations employed mixed method approaches, including randomized controls trials (RCTs) and non-experimental designs, qualitative methods and village LEWIE-CGE modelling. Evidence presented in the book counteracts concerns around social protection creating dependency showing that unconditional cash transfers lead to a broad range of social and productive impacts, even though they are not tied to any specific behaviour.

Table of Contents

  • PART I: DESIGNING THE CASH TRANSFER IMPACT EVALUATIONS
  • PART II: ASSESSMENT OF CASH TRANSFER PROGRAMMES: COUNTRY CASE STUDIES
  • PART III: SYNTHESIS OF RESULTS

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