Tagged: Ghana

Beyond targeting: Making social protection work for women in Ghana

Gender

By Christiana Gbedemah, Amber Peterman, Jennifer Yablonski

I  feel like a human being now and the luckiest one as well (LEAP 1000 participant, Barrington et al. 2021)   The Government of Ghana launched the LEAP 1000 pilot – a ‘cash plus’ programme – targeted at pregnant women and those with infants living in poor households in 2015. The motivation of the pilot was to support… Read more →←

Cash transfers and improved child nutrition: Where did all the impacts go?

Evidence Impact evaluation

By Richard de Groot

During a recent trip to Ghana, we presented the baseline findings from an impact evaluation of the “LEAP 1000” cash transfer programme to UNICEF colleagues, government and development partners. LEAP 1000, an extension of Ghana’s Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty programme, targets households with young children. It is designed… Read more →←

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