The project transfers food to vulnerable people to protect livelihoods and fill food gaps with recovery objectives for construction/rehabilitation of community assets.
Cash transfer programme conditional on labour supply or training.
Non-contributory pensions support vulnerable individuals, and individuals who have made a significant contribution to society (war veterans, relatives of disappeared persons, scientific achievement, etc).
Provides income transfers to families in extreme poverty to support household access to health and education. It has two components, a household transfer and a household and community development programme.
Provides cash transfers to households with children in poor areas on condition that children are enrolled at school and have a minimum attendance level.
The programme extends the `laddered strategic linkage¿ approach of IGVGD (Bangladesh(4)) to the very poorest. It builds up the asset base of the poorest, beginning with transfer of income generating assets, health and education support, training, social development and later integrating with microcredit programmes.
The programme pays the school and examination fees and a stipend to all girls in secondary school.
Provided wages in-kind (usually wheat) to rural labourers for working in labour-intensive public works (water, roads, forestry, fishery) during the dry season.
This programme seeks to extend the outreach of poverty-reduction initiatives beyond the "moderate poor" to the "hardcore poor", who experience the deepest deprivation.
The programme provides a cash transfer to poorest older people and to destitute widows.
The programme provides a conditional cash transfer to families to keep children in primary education. Families will receive the benefits as long as the child attends 85 percent of school days, and obtains at least 40 percent marks in the annual examinations.
Programme provides in-kind wheat transfer to enable destitute rural women to improve their economic and social condition. A complementary package of development services was introduced in 1988, including health and nutrition education, literacy training, savings, and support in launching income-earning activities
Universal
The programme supports poor individuals aged 65 and over with a monthly cash transfer.
The programme provides cash transfers to poor households with children of school age conditional on school attendance
Bolsa Familia consolidates several existing cash transfers programmes: Bolsa Escola (a cash transfer conditional on schooling. Bolsa Alimentaçao (an unconditional cash transfer to indigent households), and Auxilio-Gás (an unconditional cash transfer subsidising poor households¿ consumption of gas), into a single programme targeted on households in extreme poverty, and poor households with children.
The programme provides a cash transfer to households with children of school age working in hazardous or degrading occupations, and funding to school willing to offer an extended school day with activities focused on improving children¿s educational attainment
The programme supports informal workers in the rural economy with cash transfers on reaching the age of 55 if women and 60 if men, or disabled.
PAP provides schools with public resources that partially compensate for the removal of school charges for registration via fee wavier, learning materials, and tests - particularly at the primary level. There are 12 PAPs in total, four of which specifically refer to the basic education sector, and include a cash school subsidy programme. These are expected to run through the 2005-06 school year.
Families receive cash transfers provided their daughter is enrolled in school, maintains a passing grade, and is absent without ¿good reason¿ fewer than 10 days in a year. The girl receives a scholarship for the three years of the lower secondary cycle.
The programme provides an integrated programme of support to households in extreme poverty in Chile to overcome their situation. In an initial period of six months, participating households work intensively with a social worker to identify and address their deficits in seven dimensions: registration, work, health, employment, income, education, and household dynamics. In addition there is a cash transfer to support this activity. In the following phase, the social workers must ensure that households have access to the relevant public programmes. Minimum levels are set as targets for each of the different dimensions (common to all households in the programme). The expectation is that after
A non-contributory pension programme supporting old or disabled individuals without other sources of income.
The scheme pays the difference between the monthly income of poor households and a minimum level set at the city level.
The programme provides a cash transfer to poor households with children in poor areas conditional on school attendance and use of primary health centres.
Secondary education vouchers subsidising school fees for children from low-income households.
Cash transfer programme supporting older or disabled poorer individuals excluded from social insurance schemes.
Provides food coupon to poor households with children aged 6 to 18 conditional on children enrolment in school.
Provide income transfers to households in extreme and moderate poverty, conditional on visits to health centres, school attendance of children, and registration.
Originally began as unconditional cash transfer programmes to poor households with children, elderly and disabled ¿ but conditioning on schooling and health introduced in 2003. The programme pays monthly means tested benefits to poor households with children, elderly and the disabled.
Programmes provide cash to households in need. This can be an unconditional transfer, but in most cases has a work requirement.
The programme uses a mixture of cash-for-work and cash transfers those who cannot, or should not, work.
Food security programme with a work component attached.
Provides short-term employment opportunities to the unemployed and underemployed in extremely poor areas.
The National Women Farmers Association (NAWFA) and the Gambian Food and Nutrition Association (GAFNA), through both programmes, share responsibilities in addressing the three food security components of access, availability and utilisation, on the part of the Sesame Growers¿ Association (SGA) Project and improving health and nutrition on the part of the Child Survival Project.
The programme provides a cash transfer to poor households conditional on household investment in health and education, and supports institutional and financial provision of education and health.
The programme generates rural public works employment with the aim of reducing poverty through income gains to participating workers, and the completion of small-scale rural infrastructure projects (e.g., through small scale irrigation and soil conservation projects, re-forestation, and rural road building).
Alleviate poverty through creation of supplementary employment opportunities for the rural poor during agricultural slack periods. Other objectives are the creation of social assets and a positive impact on wages.
Households below the poverty line are provided benefits on the death of the primary breadwinner who is defined as the member of the family whose earnings contribute substantially to the total household income.
Provides benefits to pregnant women in households living below the poverty line.
NOAPS provides cash payments to destitute elderly households.
Entitles every household in rural areas to at least 100 days of guaranteed employment every year for at least one adult member. The programme also entitles beneficiaries to unemployment allowance if the job, under the scheme, is not provided within a specified period; medical treatment in case of injury under the programme; child care in cases where at least twenty women are employed on a worksite; and facilities for the employment of persons with physical or mental disabilities in activities that are compatible with their abilities.
Scholarship and grants are distributed through post offices.
The SSN was implemented through four broad categories: food security, public health and education, employment and income generation, and the promotion of small and medium scale enterprises. It provides subsidised rice for the poorest, free health care for the poor and education scholarships for poor children. Payments are provided directly to beneficiaries through the post office.
The programme pays a monthly transfer to older citizens from the age of 70.
Public works programme with an integrated approach. This includes group formation, savings mobilisation, promotion of economic activities and capacity building for District Assemblies (DAs) in planning, project management, monitoring and evaluation. Public works included road infrastructure, dam projects and afforestation projects.
PROGRESA was developed as a cash transfer programme for poor rural households in Mexico, aimed at poverty reduction and prevention. OPORTUNIDADES extended the programme to urban areas with training and micro enterprise support components.
A cash transfer to prevent vulnerable herders and poor households in Khovd Aimag from falling into deeper poverty by providing means to cover their urgent humanitarian needs during the harsh winter and spring, thus con-tributes to ensure securer live-livelihoods.
A targeted cash transfer paid to households with it conditional on investing in children¿s human capital development - children had to be up-to-date on mandatory vaccinations, living with their parents (or officially authorised guardians) and not engaged in harmful forms of child labour. If they were eight years or older, they had to be enrolled in school or non-formal education.
Improve nutritional status of poorest households in urban areas.
Monthly cash transfer is given to recipient households.
Old-age universal pension
The programme has been successfully transformed from a social fund established to deal with an emergency into a medium term conditional cash transfer programme. Cash transfers to poor households are made conditional on household investment in education and health.
The programme is a combined food subsidy and cash transfer.
Provides income transfer to poorest households with children, conditional on health, schooling, and registration.
Cash transfer to children aged 13 or less in poor households.
"A government means-tested disability grant of a maximum of R750 a month isavailable to all `severely physically and mentally disabled people¿ older than 18 and younger than65 (Natrass, 2004: 18)."
A medium-term active labour market policy. It aims to create one million new jobs for unemployed low-skilled workers over five years.
Old-age pension; programme extended to black majority population gradually over 1980s and 1990s.
Provides permanent employment through labour-intensive road maintenance. Workers are employed on a part-time basis (8 days per month). The contract is given to a household rather than to an individual, so that if the primary worker is unable to work employment in the shifts to another household member.
Food and kerosene stamps subsidise purchase of these goods.
Cash transfer to support older or disabled poor, excluded from formal social insurance schemes.
Cash transfer for critically poor households.
