UNICEF has been working with governments in several countries to roll out programmes against child labour.
Study of the potentially negative interactions between MC roll out programmes and primary HIV prevention programmes should be a research priority.
Governments undertaking MC roll out programmes need to make more efforts to raise awareness about the limitations of MC protection, especially for women.
More efforts are needed to raise awareness about the limitations of MC protection, especially for women, and to study the interactions between MC roll out programmes and primary HIV prevention programmes.
Cash transfers already reach millions of people in southern Africa, and plans are underway in other countries in sub-Saharan Africa to roll out programmes reaching tens and eventually hundreds of thousands of poor people.
One senior expatriate commented that 'The environment here is decisive... an excellent conduit through which to roll out programmes.' Another believed that Namibia's good record 'has to do with governance and leadership at the higher level.
The beliefs and attitudes of young men in the target age for MC and of young women who are their potential partners will affect the way MC roll out programmes contribute to HIV prevention in practice.
So why were Londoners not consulted before the Commissioner embarked on his 'Taser Roll-Out Programme'?
"It's all about improving the model, then we'll be ready to do a full roll-out programme," he says, "and we're looking at international franchising too".
