Additional Impact Evaluations Planned for Africa’s Cash Transfer Programs (as of 2010)

Program Name	Date Results Expected	Key Information from Evaluation
Burkina Faso CT/CCT	2010	Impact of conditional versus unconditional transfers and payments to mothers versus fathers on educational, health, and consumption outcomes
Kenya CT for OVC	2010	Impact of conditional versus unconditional transfers
Kenya HSNP	First results in 2010; additional results later	Impact of unconditional transfers targeting various groups in extremely remote areas
Nigeria Kano CCT for Girls’ Education	Late 2012	Impact of soft versus hard conditions; different transfer sizes; centralized versus decentralized monitoring; impact of various communications strategies, including mobile phone technology
Rwanda VUP	2010	Impact of unconditional transfer in larger social protection program which includes support for insertion into financial system and labor market when possible
Senegal CF-SCT	2011	Impact of unconditional transfers on consumption, nutrition, and health outcomes in presence of successful community nutrition program
Tanzania CB-CCT	2010/2011	Impact of CCT that functions within a social fund and is supported by communities trained in community-driven development
Tanzania RESPECT	2010/2011	Impact of CCT conditioned on remaining free of curable STIs on STI status, HIV status, and other measures. Initial results already available; additional results expected
Zambia Monze SCT	2010/2011	Impact of unconditional cash transfers on household outcomes

Other programs for which experimental impact evaluations were expected to occur included Ghana’s LEAP, Lesotho’s CGP, and Senegal’s CCT for OVC. For more information on recent and planned impact evaluations in Sub-Saharan Africa, see here.