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Cash transfers and fertility: new evidence from Africa

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Social cash transfers are an increasingly popular tool in African national governments’ social protection strategies, but a question that often comes up about their use is will such programmes – targeted to families with young children – encourage parents to have larger families in a region with stubbornly high fertility rates?… Read more →←
A woman collects payment at a table.

It’s Payday! What a cash transfer looks like in Ghana

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Cash transfer programs have become an increasingly popular component of social protection strategies across sub-Saharan Africa. These programs provide monthly payments to poor and vulnerable households and can lead to multiple demonstrated benefits, such as the improvement of health and education among young people, and impacting the… Read more →←
Widow Sopio Gvenetadze lives with her three children: Ilarion (4) Anastasia (3) and Teona (2) and her elderly mother in a rundown house which she rents with the help of various organizations.

Advocacy and policy work brings change for children in Georgia

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The work of UNICEF in lower- or upper-middle-income countries is often underestimated. It is believed that such states are more likely to have a genuine understanding of the importance of investing in children, and therefore, have adequate systems for providing public services and benefits to them. Unfortunately, even such states fail… Read more →←
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Evidence from Africa shows cash transfers increase school enrollment

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An estimated 63 million adolescents between the ages of 12 and 15 are currently out of school, according to a recent report by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and UNICEF. This is a staggering number, and the barriers to school enrolment–poverty, conflict, gender discrimination, and child labour–are not easy to overcome.… Read more →←
Aboubacar (wearing glasses), surrounded by his family, talks with UNICEF's Mouctar Touré and Kadijah Diallo.

Ebola: extended families stepping up for orphaned children

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Nzérékoré, Guinea – Upon the deaths of his brother and his sister-in-law, Aboubacar (72), the sole breadwinner for his family, took in his brother’s six orphans. After a few days, three of the six started showing the signs of Ebola: Ousmane (14), Massa (12), and Adama (10). Having heard Ebola sensitization messages on the… Read more →←
On the 4th of December, UNICEF in collaboration with Dohuk Governorate started distributing USD $250 for each family living in Khanke Camp.

5 questions: cash transfers for communities on the move in Iraq

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Since January 2014, over 2 million Iraqis have fled their homes due to violence in the northwest of the country. In response, UNICEF recently signed a USD $5 Million agreement with the Governorate of Dohuk, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, to provide emergency cash assistance to vulnerable families living in camp settings. Distribution… Read more →←

Impact evaluations reap long term benefits for children

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We have an obligation to invest where it makes the most difference for children. But how do we decide what will reap the greatest benefits in the long term? The dilemma of whether to invest in services that provide immediate benefits, or in evidence generating initiatives for the long term, is a difficult one. The answer requires a… Read more →←

Cash transfers in Africa – generating evidence on the impact

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The Great Recession of 2008 prompted many traditional donor countries to cut back foreign aid budgets. Pressure from lawmakers is now greater than ever for aid dollars to go further, and for development programmes to prove that aid is linked to tangible changes in the lives of children in the poorest regions of the world. Well, it turns… Read more →←

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