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Fast access to cash provides urgent relief to those hardest hit by COVID—19

Fast access to cash provides urgent relief to those hardest hit by COVID—19

Impact evaluation Social Protection

By Jacobus de Hoop, Luisa Natali, Alexis Boncenne, Angie Lee

COVID—19 is wreaking health and economic turmoil worldwide. These impacts are all the more pronounced in low-income or crisis-affected countries, where the economic crisis caused by the pandemic may hit harder than the virus itself. This is the case for Jordan which, in addition to 15.7% of its population living below the poverty line,… Read more →←
Awkward truths and the changing face of social protection

Awkward truths and the changing face of social protection

Gender Impact evaluation Social Protection

By Ruth Graham-Goulder

Social protection is a fundamental right and key tool in addressing shocks, vulnerability and poverty. It can make the difference that keeps a child from going to bed hungry and missing school. It can allow people to access essential healthcare and to adapt more easily to climate-related disasters. Expanding coverage and improving the… Read more →←
¿Son sensibles al género las transferencias monetarias en América Latina?

¿Son sensibles al género las transferencias monetarias en América Latina?

Gender Impact evaluation Social Protection

By Constanza Ginestra

La división de tareas de cuidado infantil entre madres y padres es desigual incluso en aquellos países donde la perspectiva de género es la principal motivación en el diseño de la política. Por ello, necesitamos preguntarnos: ¿Estamos haciendo lo suficiente para promover la igualdad de género? ¿Cómo las políticas sociales… Read more →←
Are Cash Transfers in Latin America Gender-Sensitive?

Are Cash Transfers in Latin America Gender-Sensitive?

Impact evaluation Social Protection

By Costanza Ginestra

Even in countries where gender equality is a main driver in policy design, the division of childcare among parents is unequal. We need to ask some important questions: Are we doing enough to promote gender equality? How can social policies be better designed to close the gender gap and empower all women and girls? How can social… Read more →←
The Quest for the Missing Counterfactual: Transfer Project Trains African Researchers in Impact Evaluation

The Quest for the Missing Counterfactual: Transfer Project Trains African Researchers in Impact Evaluation

Impact evaluation

By Ashu Handa, Elsa Valli, Gustavo Angeles

How do we know if a programme made a difference? The answer to this question is not as straightforward as it seems, because we never know what would have happened without the programme. This concept is referred to as the ‘missing counterfactual’ (or simply ‘the counterfactual’ since, by definition, a counterfactual is… Read more →←
Five Questions with Dr. Fidelia Dake on Researching Impacts of Cash Transfers in Africa

Five Questions with Dr. Fidelia Dake on Researching Impacts of Cash Transfers in Africa

Impact evaluation Social Protection

By Amber Peterman

How does a Ghanaian female scholar navigate social-protection research in Africa?   Fidelia Dake is a Lecturer at the Regional Institute for Population Studies at the University of Ghana, and recently completed a research fellowship in UNICEF Innocenti with the Transfer Project. UNICEF Innocenti’s Amber Peterman sits down with… Read more →←
Moving forward Multidimensionally: Five Lessons on Child Poverty from Malawi and More

Moving forward Multidimensionally: Five Lessons on Child Poverty from Malawi and More

Data and Research Evidence Impact evaluation

By Lucia Ferrone

In the past four years that I have been working on several national child poverty studies, either conducting the analysis directly or providing assistance and feedback, a few key findings have emerged as consistent poverty-related or poverty-driven issues that need to be addressed. These five areas should be considered priorities in… Read more →←
Mind the gender gap: How can a gender-norm lens improve social protection outcomes for adolescents?

Mind the gender gap: How can a gender-norm lens improve social protection outcomes for adolescents?

Impact evaluation

By Tia Palermo and Maja Gavrilovic

Since adolescence is a highly vulnerable period of rapid physiological, biological, and psychological change, researchers and development partners are increasingly asking how social protection can facilitate safer transitions to adulthood, and what additional factors shape these transitions for youth. Vulnerabilities related to adverse… Read more →←
No Lost Generation: Cash transfers for displaced Syrian children in Lebanon

No Lost Generation: Cash transfers for displaced Syrian children in Lebanon

Country stories Impact evaluation

By Jacobus De Hoop

Imagine you work for UNICEF in Lebanon. Your team has the challenging task of ensuring that half a million displaced Syrian children who fled the war in their home country attend primary school. These children live scattered throughout the country, as Lebanon has a “no-camps” policy. Many of them are traumatized and grow up in bitter… Read more →←
Opening the black box: Cash transfers and post-intervention research

Opening the black box: Cash transfers and post-intervention research

Country stories Impact evaluation

By Luisa Natali

Last Fall I visited three of the most poverty-stricken rural districts of Zambia: Kaputa, Kalabo and Shangombo. Each location took two days’ travel by car from Lusaka. We drove up to Kaputa, near the border with DRC, with a stock of jerry cans filled with fuel, passed through the Kafue National Park and crossed the mile-wide Zambesi… Read more →←
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