Check out findings from Silvio Daidone et al. on the impacts of Lesotho's Child Grants Programme 🇱🇸, in which local-economy spillovers amplify the benefit-cost ratio of cash transfers & productive interventions. Read more here 👉 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Check out this video from our partners at American Institutes for Research Hear more about how #CashTransfers are more effective than other types of humanitarian aid 🤝 Cost effective in reducing poverty, cash transfers give people more agency in how to spend their 💵: youtube.com/watch?v=S5L4Dp…

From Essa Chanie, Tia Palermo, F. Otchere, G. Angeles & M. Kibur – this study finds that community-based health insurance ⏫ outpatient service use in Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Read more about their insights here👇 bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Social protection ➡️ safer transitions to adulthood #SocialProtection programs have the potential to reduce vulnerability in adolescents. Read more about interventions in 🇹🇿 by authors Jennifer Waidler, Ulrike Gilbert Nandra, Aroldia Mulokozi & Tia Palermo onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Curious about the connection between #SocialProtection and the impacts of COVID-19? Check out our materials on the economic (& other) impacts in the LMICs where we work! 👉 transfer.cpc.unc.edu/themes/cash-tr…

❕#DataSets❕ We have several publicly available datasets that can be accessed through the @uncpopcenter.bsky.social Data Portal Check them out here 👉 transfer.cpc.unc.edu/datasets/

#CashTransfers ➕ #Agriculture ➡️ Mostafavi-Dehzooei & Heshmatpour use data from Lesotho’s Child Grants Program to understand how cash transfers affect ag inputs + intertemporal choice ↪️CT households were 6 % pts more likely to use pesticides: linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S…

Amazing story from UNICEF Malawi! Liffa’s mother’s experience as a SCTP recipient helped support his educational successes and recent graduation from the Malawi University of Science and Technology 🎓 Read more about their journey: unicef.org/malawi/stories…

Key lessons from #CashTransfers - This article from our partners at American Institutes for Research discusses how cash transfers improve the lives of low-income households and synthesizes findings to identify lessons for future program design 👇 air.org/resource/spotl…

From our partners at Food and Agriculture Organization: Local economy-wide impacts of Tanzania's Productive Social Safety Nets ⏩ increased food security, money towards better living conditions, & human capital accumulation. Read more here ↪️ openknowledge.fao.org/items/ee899032…

More of a visual learner? Check out our presentations via Slideshare. We have presentations ranging on topics from Women's Empowerment in Mali to Climate Action in Kenya, check them out here! 👉 slideshare.net/TheTransferPro…

Impact of Ghana's LEAP1000 on birthweights 👉 ssph-journal.org/journals/inter… LEAP1000 decreased LBW prevalence by 3.5 & 4.1 % pts overall and in the dry season. LEAP1000 increased avg BW by 94, 109, & 79 g overall, in the dry season, and in the rainy season respectively.

Using data from cash transfer evals in 🇲🇼 & 🇿🇲, authors find that ultra-poor rural households shift to more efficient fuel sources (fires ➡️ torches) after receiving 3–4 yrs of transfers. Read more about their findings here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aj…