The effects of DFID’s cash transfer programmes on poverty and vulnerability
UK aid is succeeding in alleviating extreme poverty through its support for cash transfer programmes.
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- Published: 9 May 2016
Our approach
This impact review set out to assess the results that DFID has achieved with its cash transfer (CT) programmes, and the extent to which these results are likely to be sustainable. The review probes the credibility of DFID’s results and aims and assesses their significance.
The review assesses DFID’s use of and addition to the evidence of CTs contribution to reducing poverty and vulnerability. Value for money of DFID’s CT programmes was also examined. The review provides insight into whether DFID’s CT portfolio represents a credible response to target 1.3 of the Sustainable Development Goals, which is to ‘implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including floors, and by 2030 achieve substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable’.
Review questions
The review is built primarily around the OECD-DAC evaluation criteria of impact and sustainability. lt considers the following questions and sub-questions:
- Impact: To what extent have DFID’s CT programmes contributed to reductions in poverty and vulnerability?
- Sustainability: To what extent does DFID maximise the sustainability of its impact?