However, the report notes that the evaluation of cash-transfer programs often lack a child-focus [ 11].
In the first scientifically rigorous evaluation of emergency cash for refugees, the International Rescue Committee unveiled striking findings based on research in partnership with Daniel Masterson of Yale University and Christian Lehmann of the University of Brasilia, focused on the Syria crisis, specifically looking at Lebanon.
The evaluation of conditional cash transfer programmes has shown that they can be effective at raising consumption, education and preventive healthcare, 5 as well as actual health outcomes.
Impact and process evaluation of three cash transfer programs are underway in Mali and Togo: SNACK (Santé Nutritionnelle à Assise Communautaire à Kayes) project (WFP) Jigiséméjiri (Malian Government and the World Bank) Pilot cash transfer project in Kara and Savanes regions, north Togo (Togolese government, Unicef, World Bank).
However, consensus on humanitarian community risk thresholds and a common strategy for design, management, monitoring, and evaluation of multisector cash-based assistance and complementary sector-specific initiatives will be important for broader reaching cash assistance programs.
Rigorous evaluations of conditional cash transfer (CCT) and unconditional cash transfer (UCT) programmes demonstrate that both approaches, through the provision of a regular and reliable income to vulnerable households, can improve the health and developmental outcomes of children (Handa and Davis 2006; Adato and Bassett 2009; Lagarde et al. 2009; Arnold et al. 2011).
Background: The Evaluation of the Unconditional Cash Transfer and Voucher Programmes in Southern and Central Somalia includes all unconditional cash and voucher programmes implemented by 15 NGOs between August 2011 and December 2012 in response to the crisis.
An external evaluation of the social cash transfer scheme is ongoing.
10 An evaluation of this conditional cash transfer scheme in 2007 2008 showed an increase in ANC visits and institutional births.
This level of intracluster correlation had been estimated from a sample of rural Mexican children who were part of the evaluation of a conditional cash transfer program.
In the planning phases of the project, the DCO was explicit that he wished to conduct an evaluation of the government cash transfer program to determine its effectiveness in improving the health and well-being of orphaned children [ 21].
