There is promising evidence that poverty-targeted cash transfer programs can have positive
impacts on adolescent transitions to adulthood in resource poor settings, however existing …

There is increasing interest in the ability of cash transfers to facilitate safe transitions to
adulthood in low‐income settings; however, evidence from scaled‐up government …

In Kenya, as in other countries of sub-Saharan Africa heavily burdened by HIV/AIDS,
orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) face poverty and despair. There is an urgent need to …

The empowerment of women, broadly defined, is an often-cited objective and benefit of
social cash transfer programs in developing countries. Despite the promise and potential of …

Executive summary Kenya has been seriously affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. It has
increased the number of orphans in the country and also the vulnerability of affected …

Kenya's Cash Transfer for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (CT-OVC) is a national child-
protection programme that provides a flat monthly transfer of Ksh 1500 to ultra-poor families …

Cash transfer (CT) programmes are increasingly being used as policy instruments to
address child poverty and child health outcomes in developing countries. As the largest …

Background Cash-transfer programmes can improve the wellbeing of vulnerable children,
but few studies have rigorously assessed their effectiveness in sub-Saharan Africa. We …

Cash transfer programs have achieved wide-ranging success in reducing poverty, yet there
is little empirical research on how program rules and administrative capacity might limit …

This paper reports the analysis of the impact of Kenya's Cash Transfer for Orphans and
Vulnerable Children Programme on the household decisions on productive activities using …