But by doing so it has taken the momentum out of the transfer programme.
In the end, we implemented the largest NGO cash transfer programme in history.
Higher school enrolment has been an unexpected side effect of the cash transfer programme.
This makes it "the most important income transfer programme in the world", says Lula.
Known in development jargon as a "conditional cash transfer" programme, it was modelled partly on a similar scheme in Mexico.
"Unicef is piloting a 'cash transfer' programme that aims to give impoverished parents grants so they can feed, clothe and protect their children from abuse, exploitation and trafficking".
Its members were executives from housing associations and property developers operating in Tower Hamlets, where the council was pursuing an aggressive stock transfer programme.
Now the government is applying a income transfer programme, inspired by the Bolsa-Familia, such as Bolsa Estiagem and Garantia Safra.
Under Morocco's Tayssir cash transfer programme, for example, families received payments that they could spend on education, helping to cut school dropout rates by 75%.
Second, rushing into a massive cash transfer programme may complicate the government's ability to rectify problems on the fly, both politically and administratively.
For those in extreme poverty, the government's internationally renowned conditional cash transfer programme – Bolsa Familia – provided 60% of their income in 2011, up from 10% in 2003.
