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… resulting in an exten- sion of the original research to cover not only the impacts of social transfers, but also how … of the programme not having enough resources to cover the total eligible population in the ten community … value of the subsidies (the transfer was not sufficient to cover minimum basic needs) and improve the payment delivery …
… many OPDs under severe financial strain, with no funds to cover their operational costs, and some had to shut down … disabilities and OPDs to develop funding mechanisms that cover core operational costs, organisational capacity … under severe financial strain, with limited or no funds to cover their operational costs for several months. Some OPDs …
… for target households % of HH reporting sale of assets to cover emergency or life cycle payments % of HH reporting use of savings to cover emergency or life cycle payments IR 1.1 Increase in … pay school fees for the children under their care and to cover food, medicine and hospital expenses when a family …
This brief from the Zimbabwe Education Cluster presents details on the humanitarian needs and response in Zimbabwe due to the COVID-19 crisis, including the acute needs of orphans and vulnerable children, children with disabilities, and others.
Several developing economies have recently introduced conditional cash transfer programs, which provide money to poor families contingent on certain behavior, usually investments in human capital, such as sending children to school or bringing them to health centers. Evaluation results for programs launched in Colombia, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Turkey reveal successes in addressing many of the failures in delivering social assistance, such as weak poverty targeting, disincentive effects, and limited welfare impacts. Many questions remain unanswered, however, including the…
… objective to persuade communities still has some ground to cover before it leads to universal behaviour change. There … objective to persuade communities still has some ground to cover before it leads to universal behaviour change. There …