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 of OVCs in order to reduce malnutrition, improve health status and increase school enrolment. The CGP includes strong messaging that cash should be spent on the needs of children. The quantitative analysis of the CGP impact evaluation uses both baseline and 24-month followup data. Both surveys collected information for a sample of CGP-eligible and non-eligible households in treatment and control communities. The baseline survey fieldwork took place between June and August 2011, comprising around 3 000 households. The follow-up survey fieldwork took place in 2013 at the same time of the year to avoid seasonality bias.