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Transforming Cash Transfers: Beneficiary and community perspectives on the Cash Transfer for Orphans and Vulnerable Children Programme in Kenya
Summary (English)
The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) carried out a multi-country study exploring the experiences and perceptions of
unconditional cash transfer programmes in five countries: Kenya, Uganda, Mozambique, Yemen and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). In Kenya, the focus of the research, given the focus of the programme, was on unconditional cash transfers to orphans and vulnerable children (OVC). The study explored beneficiary perspectives and the perceptions and opinions of non‐beneficiaries and programme implementers in order to create a comprehensive picture of individual, household, community and national views, experiences and perceptions of the Cahs Transfers programmes, ranging from design and implementation to effects and impacts.
The report is structured in the following way:
- Section 2 presents the conceptual framework.
- Section 3 gives an overview of the country context and background, including key vulnerabilities and an over view of the CT - OVC programme.
- Section 4 outlines the methodology, comprising methods and techniques applied in the data collection, sample sizes, respondent types, ethical considerations and challenges/limitations.
- This is followed in Section 5 by a description of the study sites and respondents.
- Section 6 presents community understandings and experiences of vulnerability, and related coping strategies.
- Section 7 looks at the mechanics and governance of the CT-OVC programme.
- Section 8 reviews the use of cash and perceptions around the value and effects of the CT.
- Section 9 covers programme accountability.
- Finally, Section 10 contains policy and programme recommendations relating to the programme and next steps.
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Read the other reports of the collection:
- Transforming Cash Transfers: Beneficiary and community perspectives on the Basic Social Subsidy Programme in Mozambique
- Transforming Cash Transfers: Beneficiary and community perspectives on the Senior Citizen Grant (SCG) in Uganda
- Transforming Cash Transfers: Beneficiary and community perspectives on the Social Welfare Fund in Yemen
- Transforming Cash Transfers: Beneficiary and community perspectives on the Palestinian National Cash Transfer Programme. Part 1: The Case of the Gaza Strip
- Transforming Cash Transfers: Beneficiary and community perspectives on the Palestinian National Cash Transfer Programme. Part 2: The case of the West Bank