Coordinating CTs
Can African institutions handle the demands of their CTs?
Capacity of Institutional Base
A frequent complaint about CTs, and social protection more broadly, is that CTs are located within weak institutional homes.
- Capacity of officials and other individuals within the CT’s implementing institution is crucial to program success.
- Issues arise, for instance, when program employees (or civil service employees who were implementing programs) lack computer literacy.
- Other challenges arise when government ministries involved in CTs are accustomed to providing case-based support rather than addressing the collective needs of vulnerable groups.
- This concern was a challenge in Ghana, where training and a change of focus were needed to orient the relevant officials to meet the demands of LEAP (Jones, Ahadzie, and Doh 2009).