Many social protection programmes, including cash transfers, public works programmes and asset transfers, target women as main beneficiaries or recipients of benefits. Extending social protection to rural populations has great potential for fostering rural women’s...

Work area: Social Protection and Agriculture

Country: Lesotho

This in-depth qualitative study in Lesotho examines the impacts of linkages between the Lesotho Child Grants Programme (CGP), the second largest national social protection programme supporting poor...

This paper summarizes evidence on six perceptions associated with cash transfer programming, using eight rigorous evaluations conducted on large-scale government unconditional cash transfers in sub-Saharan Africa under the Transfer Project. Specifically, it investigates if...

Work area: Social Protection and Agriculture

Country: Lesotho

This impact evaluation adopts a mixed-method approach combining quantitative and qualitative methods to the analysis of the impact of CGP and SPRINGS. Qualitative and quantitative methods have complementary roles. The quantitative method allows...

Country: Senegal

This brief sets out to analyse the extent to which the PNBSF is supporting the livelihoods and income-generating activities of rural households. In addition, it aims to identify the most appropriate supplementary support measures with...