Country: Lesotho

The Lesotho Child Grants Programme (CGP) is an unconditional social cash transfer that targets poor rural households with orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs). The primary objective of the programme is to improve the living standards...

This note summarizes the role social protection can play in saving livelihoods while also enhancing the capacity of households to respond, cope and withstand threats...

Country: Ethiopia

This brief describes the broad array of impacts arising from a cash transfer programme that was piloted in the Tigray region of Ethiopia from 2011 to 2014.

Country: Zambia

Cash transfers (CTs) are important poverty reduction schemes, which are present in more than fifty countries (World Bank, 2014a). Their main goal is economic growth...