| Date: | 2011- |
| Description: | The BOOST programme is a conditional cash transfer initiative that provides financial assistance to households in situations of poverty, contingent upon specific conditions related to education (minimum 85% school attendance) and health (immunization of children under 5 years of age and prenatal check-ups for pregnant women). |
Characteristics
| Target population: | Households living in poverty |
| Geographic scale: | National |
| Targeting method: | Categorical: Pregnant women, children younger than 5, school-age children (between 5 and 18 years of age), elderly (over 60 years of age) and people with physical disabilities.
Proxy Means Test: Households in a situation of poverty. |
| Instrument of selection: | Single Information System of Belize (SISB) |
| Registry of recipients: | Single Information System of Belize (SISB) |
| Comments: | As part of the measures to face the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and social isolation, in April 2020 it was announced that the BOOST program would be reinforced to include among its recipients people who receive food assistance, maintaining the maximum of six recipients per family. |
Institutionality
| Legal framework: | |
| Responsible organization(s): | Ministry of Human Development, Social Transformation and Poverty Alleviation |
| Executing organization(s): | Ministry of Human Development, Social Transformation and Poverty Alleviation |
1) Co-responsibility cash transfer
| Recipient(s): | Children under 18 and pregnant women |
| Mode of transfer: | According to characteristics of the members of the family group: Basic monthly delivery of BZS $44. Although the amount is the same for all the other categories, the amount given to school-age children varies according to a differentiation system whereby the size of the transfer increases for the highest levels reached in school. |
| Mode of delivery: | Credit Union |
| Periodicity of delivery: | Monthly |
| Maximum per household: | Six participants per household |
| Conditionalities: | Education: 85% of school attendance for children under 18 year Health: full course of immunization for 0-5 years old; ante-natal check-ups for pregnant women |
| Amount : | Minimum amount of BZD $44 per month and maximum amount of BZD $82 per month; see Data Excel Format |
Impact Evaluation of Belize’s Conditional Cash Transfer Programme (BOOST)
| Author: | The Consultancy Group |
| Date: | 2016 |
| Publication info: | Report |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | Impact evaluation |
