Evaluating the impact of cash transfer programmes in sub-Saharan Africa: an introduction to the special issue

Nutrition-sensitive interventions and programmes: how can they help to accelerate progress in improving maternal and child nutrition?

“…In Africa, soft conditions or uncon ditional cash transfers are more common than conditional cash transfers. 97 One randomised trial showed that a conditional cash transfer with health con ditionality increased clinic visits in Burkina Faso, where as an unconditional cash transfer did not, 98 showing the importance of the condition for achieving health-seeking behaviour changes in this setting. Evidence, however, shows an absence of overall eff ect of both unconditional cash transfers and conditional cash transfers on child nutritional status.…”

Where Lies the Risk? An Ecological Approach to Understanding Child Mental Health Risk and Vulnerabilities in Sub-Saharan Africa

“…Social protection schemes can mitigate the social and mental health risks of poverty and inequalities on children and their families. In spite of the modest expansion in Eastern and Southern regions of Africa in recent times [98], available data unfortunately suggests that social protection and social-welfare schemes in subSaharan Africa are still largely rudimentary, noncomprehensive, restrictive, or at experimental stages [99][100][101]. In addition, the social protection schemes in the region are still bedeviled by weak institutional framework for impactful implementation [102].…”

Social Protection for Orphaned and Vulnerable Children in Kenya: Initiatives, Opportunities and Challenges

“…For instance, there has been a significant increase in household consumption, reduction of on-farm child labour and significant positive impact on enrolment of children in secondary schools (Bryant, 2009;Davis et. al, 2012,).At primary school level (with primary enrolment as programme indicator), although no much sensitivity has shown (The insensitivity is attributed to another programme i.e.…”