Summary (English)

The database aims to:

• provide a summary of the evidence available on the effectiveness of social assistance interventions in developing countries;
• focus on programmes seeking to combine the reduction and mitigation of poverty, with strengthening and facilitating household investments capable of preventing poverty and securing development in the longer term
• select programmes for inclusion in the database on the basis of the availability of information on design features, evaluation, size, scope, or significance;
• provide summary information on each programme in a way that can be easily referenced by DFID staff and others with only a basic level of technical expertise.

Version 4 updates information on existing programmes and incorporates information on the following programmes:

• Conditional cash transfers pilots in Kenya, Zambia, and Malawi
• Integrated poverty reduction programmes in Panama, Uruguay, and the Dominican Republic
• Conditional cash transfer programmes in Paraguay
• CHARS in Bangladesh joining up environment asset accumulation and social assistance interventions

Note

* Brooks World Poverty Institute, The University of Manchester.