| Date: | 2005-2006 |
| Description: | Conditional cash transfer programme (CCT) established to face the effects of natural disasters (drought, landslides and mudslides) that hit the north of the country. The programme operated with the intervention model of phase II of the RPS in six municipalities in the affected area. It increased the components of occupational training and productive investment. |
Characteristics
| Target population: | Familias in extreme poverty |
| Geographic scale: | Local |
| Targeting method: | 1) Geographic (random) 2) Proxy means test |
| Registry of recipients: | Single Register of Beneficiaries (RUB) |
| Exit strategies or criteria: | Participants receive support during the length of the program (1 year) |
| Comments: | The targeting method included identification of areas affected by the local branches of the Ministry of the Family and then by a means test based on unsitisfied basic needs, depending on the degree of the damage that affected the families. About 3,000 families were assisted during the execution of the programme Total costs of the programme was USD$1,883,000 |
Institutionality
| Legal framework: | |
| Responsible organization(s): | Solidarity Program for Development |
| Executing organization(s): | Ministry of the Family |
| Source of funding: | World Bank |
1) Bono de seguridad alimentaria (Food security Grant)
| Recipient(s): | All participant households of the programme |
| Mode of transfer: | Flat transfer |
| Mode of delivery: | Delivery / Cash withdrawal |
| Periodicity of delivery: | Bimonthly |
| Recipient of the transfer: | Mother |
| Maximum per household: | One transfer per household |
| Conditionalities: | Health: Women and adolescents: attendance at bimonthly training sessions; Children aged under 9 years: keeping up to date immunization schedule, children, adolescents and women of reproductive age: Attendance medical checks. |
| Sanctions: | Children should remain at a healthy weight, and if they are underweight for two consecutive reviews, the household will lose the transfer. |
2) Bono educativo (Education Grant)
| Recipient(s): | Families with at least one child between 7 and 15 years of age. |
| Mode of transfer: | Flat transfer |
| Mode of delivery: | Delivery / Cash withdrawal |
| Periodicity of delivery: | Bimonthly |
| Recipient of the transfer: | Mother |
| Maximum per household: | One transfer per household |
| Conditionalities: | Education: Children between 7 and 13 years: Attendance to school with a maximum of 3 unexcused absences per month (95% attendance); Household: must use the transfer in education, as specified, . |
| Sanctions: | Si los niños pierden más de las ausencias justificadas, se les deben proporcionar una nota del doctor para evitar ser penalizado. Esta transferencia se da a los hogares, así que si un niño no asiste a la escuela mientras que los otros lo hacen, la familia pierde su transferencia para ese ciclo. |
3) Mochila Escolar (School backpack)
| Recipient(s): | Families with children between 7 and 15 years old. |
| Mode of transfer: | Flat transfer |
| Mode of delivery: | Delivery / Cash withdrawal |
| Periodicity of delivery: | Annual |
| Recipient of the transfer: | Mother |
| Maximum per household: | One transfer per household |
| Conditionalities: | Education: Children: Must be enrolled in an educational establishment at the beginning of the school year. |
| Amount : | USD$1.8 annual |
4) Bono a la oferta educativa (Education Supply Grant)
| Recipient(s): | Families with children between 7 and 15 years old (to be sent to the teacher) |
| Comments: | Children of school age from eligible households must attend school, households must send the transfer to the respective parent associations or directly to the teachers, and the teacher must participate in the local parents association sponsored by the Ministry of Education. |
| Description: | Cash transfer to meet increased demand for educational services. The transfer also aims to increase the salaries of teachers and encourage their attendance at school given the high absenteeism tin the rural areas of the country. |
| Amount : | USD$1.3 bimonthly per children |
5) Bono a la oferta en salud (Health Supply Grant)
| Recipient(s): | Health care providers. |
| Mode of transfer: | Transfers according to the number of patients attended within certain age ranges and types of consultation. |
| Comments: | Finally it was not implemented. |
| Description: | Cash transfer to meet increased demand for health services. |
| Amount : | Up to USD$90 per household attended per year |
6) Componente de capacitación vocacional (Vocational occupational training - component)
| Recipient(s): | 1,000 households were randomly selected to participate in this component. The transfers are received by the household member whom satisfies the conditions of eligibility or would like to participate in activities. |
| Comments: | Recipients must attend the vocational courses to receive the transfer "cost of opportunity". |
| Description: | Includes three cash transfers to cover costs of training (one to demand and two to the offer): a) Transfer to cover the opportunity cost of participating in training; b) Transfer to cover course costs; and c) Transfer for technical assistance to the programme. The last two due to the institution providing the respective services. |
| Amount : | a) USD$15 per month during the training (up to a maximum of $90 per year) b) USD$140 per household, c) USD$40 per household served by the providers. |
7) Componente de inversión productiva (Productive investment component)
| Recipient(s): | 1,000 households were randomly selected to participate in this component. The transfers are received by the household member whom satisfies the conditions of eligibility or would like to participate in activities. |
| Comments: | It was found that participants tend to look for common economic activities, resulting in most of them executing similar projects, reducing their chances of success. |
| Description: | Includes two cash transfers to initiate a micro-enterprise: a) Transfer to productive investment and b) Transfer for technical assistance. |
| Amount : | a) Two transfers of USD$175 and USD$25, conditional to the approval of a business plan; b) A transfer of USD$40 per household attended by providers. |
Demand versus Returns? Pro-Poor Targeting of Business Grants and Vocational Skills Training
| Author: | Macours, K., Premand, P. and Vakis, R. |
| Date: | 2013 |
| Publication info: | Impact Evaluation Series No. 88, World Bank |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | Impact Evaluation |
What are the economic impacts of conditional cash transfer programmes? A systematic review of the evidence
| Author: | Kabeer, N., Piza, C. and Taylor, L. |
| Date: | 2012 |
| Publication info: | Technical Report 2013, Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre (EPPICentre) |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | Impact Evaluation |
The impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on the amount and type of child labor
| Author: | Del Carpio, X., Loayza, N., y Wada, T. |
| Date: | 2016 |
| Publication info: | World Development Vol. 80, pp. 33–47. |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | Impact evaluation |
Nicaragua: Red de Protección Social y Sistema de Atención a Crisis en Transferencias con corresponsabilidad. Una mirada latinoamericana, E. Cohen y R. Franco (coords.)
| Author: | Largaespada Fredersdorff, Carmen |
| Date: | 2006 |
| Publication info: | Mexico, FLACSO/SEDESOL [online] |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | General information |
Cash Transfers, Behavioral Changes and the Cognitive Development of Young Children: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
| Author: | Macours, Karen, Norbert Schady and Renos Vakis |
| Date: | 2008 |
| Publication info: | Johns Hopkins University and World Bank (draft) [online] |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | Impact evaluation |
Changing households’ investments and aspirations through social interactions: Evidence from a randomised transfer program in a low-income country
| Author: | Macours, Karen and Renos Vakis |
| Date: | 2008 |
| Publication info: | Johns Hopkins University and Banco Mundial (draft) [online] |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | Impact evaluation |
Nicaragua’s Red de Protección Social: An Exemplary But Short-Lived Conditional Cash Transfer Programme
| Author: | Moore, Charity |
| Date: | 2009 |
| Publication info: | Country Study (17), Brasilia. International Poverty Center (IPC) [online] |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | General information |
