Evaluating CTs’ impacts
Impact evaluations in Africa
- Although many cash transfer programs in Sub-Saharan Africa have
- tried to determine the impact of CTs on key outcomes, some of the
- evaluations have lacked the credible counterfactual necessary to
- determine the program’s causal effect on beneficiaries. To be an
- impact evaluation in the truest sense, a program must be able to
- identify treatment and control groups. Fortunately, many of the
- newest CTs in the region are using rigorous evaluation methods to
- determine how best to design and implement these programs.
- Experimental evaluations, in which control and treatment groups are
- randomized, are being used increasingly frequently in Sub-Saharan
- Africa and around the world. Quasi-experimental evaluations are
- also used more frequently than in the past.