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Despite the growing relevance of social protection in fragile contexts, large evidence gaps exist. The Transfer Project participated in an international workshop in June to address these gaps. Find links to seven working papers released at the workshop below and read about the workshop.

Journal Articles

How much is too much: Does the size of income support transfers affect labor supply?: Using a continuous treatment approach, this study, published in the Journal of Policy Modeling, quantifies how households’ labor supply responds to transfer size. 

How Differences in Cash Transfer Sizes Affect Work Allocation Decisions: Using data from four cash transfer programs in sub‐Saharan Africa, this study, published in LABOUR, estimates impacts on labour supply and demand and how a change in transfer size influences these effects.

A Mixed-Method Review of Cash Transfers and Intimate Partner Violence in LMICs: Evidence shows that cash transfers decrease IPV, but little is known about how this is achieved. This study, published in World Bank Research Observer, explores how three different pathways impact IPV in LMICs.

Shaping Cash Transfer Impacts Through ‘Soft-Conditions’: Using evidence from Lesotho’s Child Grants Program, this study explores the effectiveness of using a ‘soft conditionality’ approach. Read the article in the Journal of African Economies to find out how labeling and messaging impact how cash is spent.

Examination of performance of the Depression Scale Short Form 10: Youth mental health is a pressing global issue, but are we measuring the mental health of disadvantaged young people in sub-Saharan Africa appropriately? This study in BMC Psychiatry tackles this important question.

Effects of Public Policy on Child Labor: A comprehensive review of social protection and programs affecting child labour, this study finds that programs affecting household vulnerability and exposure to risk tend to reduce child labour. See the article in World Development for the full results.

Working & Position Papers
Data Collection & In-Country Presentations
Tanzania: Tanzania’s “Cash Plus” model targets adolescents from households receiving Government cash transfers, providing them with training on livelihood opportunities, sexual & reproductive health, and other services. Midline data collection for a mixed-method evaluation took place this summer.

Zambia: FAO's Social Protection team presented the findings of a study on the combined impacts of the Zambian Home Grown School Feeding program and the Conservation Agriculture Scale Up project to national partners in June. The study shows that greater coherence of social protection and agricultural components is needed between these two sectors.

Lesotho:  The FAO team also presented the findings of a study on the combined impacts of the Child Grant Programme and Sustainable Poverty Reduction though Income, Nutrition and Government Service Support to national partners in September. The study shows that this combination has positive outcomes, including reduction of poverty gap, improved nutrition and greater financial inclusion.

Country Reports

Lebanon:
Evaluation of No Lost Generation/”Min Ila”, a UNICEF and WFP Cash Transfer Program for Displaced Syrian Children in Lebanon: Impact Evaluation Endline Report

Briefs

Conferences & Presentations

Missed our team speak at an event? Check out our SlideShare profile for presentations.

Alejandro Grinspun (FAO) spoke at the Expert Group Meeting on “Addressing Inequalities and Challenges to Social Inclusion” (New York, 25-27 June).

Tia Palermo (UNICEF) presented “Facilitating Evidence Uptake in the Transfer Project” at the Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies International Conference (Milan, 11 July).

Jennifer Waidler (UNICEF) presented her paper on social assistance and subjective well-being in Kyrgyzstan at HDCA’s annual conference (Buenos Aires, 6 September).

Several members of the Transfer Project team spoke at EPRC’s What Works for Africa’s Poorest Children event (Kampala, 10-12 September).
Silvio Daidone, Noemi Pace and Pamela Pozarny (FAO) presented “Impact Evaluation of Lesotho’s CGP and Sustainable Poverty Reduction through Income, Nutrition and Government Services Project” at the National University of Lesotho, Faculty of Economics (Lesotho, 13-14 September).

Frank Otchere (UNICEF) discussed the impacts of social protection at ILO’s Academy on Social Security. Tia Palermo also presented "A Life-Cycle Approach to Social Protection" at the conference. See highlights and photos from Monday and Tuesday's sessions. (Turin, 17-18 September)
Amber Peterman (UNICEF) presented her study, “Government Anti-Poverty Programming and Intimate Partner Violence in Ghana”, at the Western Economic Association International Annual Conference (Vancouver, 26-30 June)
Lusajo Kajula (UNICEF) presented the findings of two impact evaluations within Tanzania's Productive Social Safety Net on violence against children at INSPIRE (Dar es Salaam, August).
Maja Gavrilovic (UNICEF) presented "How are social protection programmes targeting or inclusive of adolescents?" at an expert dialogue at ODI (London, 10 September). Tia Palermo was engaged in a discussant role.

Blogs & Op-Eds

Mind the gender gap: How can a gender-norm lens improve social protection outcomes for adolescents? - Maja Gavrilovic and Tia Palermo

Impact Evaluation Influencing Policy: FAO and Social Protection - Pamela Pozarny and Silvio Daidone

Cash support: a new tool to decrease Intimate Partner Violence? - Amber Peterman

No Lost Generation: Cash transfers for displaced Syrian children in Lebanon - Jacob de Hoop

Finally, there has been some media attention around the potential of cash transfers for cost-effective change. In particular, we are delighted that USAID has officially embraced cash transfers as a recognized policy instrument for USAID to support. This blog from the Center for Global Development provides a great summary and references previous studies by Transfer Project team members.

New Faces
Sara Abdoulayi (Social Protection Officer) is based in FAO’s Regional Office for Africa in Ghana. She has worked in Eastern, Southern, and Western Africa. Her expertise covers a range of topics, including impact evaluation, rural poverty reduction and economic development. 

Maja Gavrilovic (Research Analyst) is a qualitative researcher in the UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti. Currently, Maja leads the qualitative components of impact evaluations of cash plus programmes in Ethiopia and Mozambique.
Angie Lee (Communications Specialist) promotes the Transfer Project's work and findings to ensure research uptake. She has private sector and NGO-experience, having previously worked in creative advertising and within the Communications divisions of UNICEF Office of Research—Innocenti and WFP.
Frank Otchere (Social Policy Specialist) is a Statistician and Demographer by training, and has worked on several Transfer Project impact evaluations since 2011. His research focuses on household production and expenditure decisions, household mobility and the intersections between demography and socio-economic wellbeing.
Jennfier Waidler (Research Analyst) holds a PhD in Economics and Governance from Maastricht University. Jennifer has worked on a variety of migration and social protection related projects for several institutions. She has rich experience in designing, evaluating and analyzing large scale household surveys.
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The Transfer Project is an innovative research and learning initiative which supports improved knowledge and practice on social transfers in Africa. The project is supported in partnership with national governments, research partners and civil society, UNICEF, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH).
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