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Transforming Cash Transfers: Beneficiary and community perspectives on the Basic Social Subsidy Programme in Mozambique
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Summary (English)
The Overseas Development Institute 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 Mozambique, the study focuses on beneficiary and community perceptions of the PSSB – the main government cash transfer programme, reaching approximately 300,000 households – and on beneficiaries’ and community members experiences of the multidimensional nature of poverty and vulnerability. In particular, it focuses on the perceptions of people living with a disability who are also living in poverty, one of the PSSB’s main target groups.
The report is structured as follows:
- Section 2 presents the conceptual framework guiding our analysis. It explains in detail the conceptual underpinnings for the research and provides the theoretical framework within which it was conducted.
- Section 3 provides a brief overview of poverty and vulnerability in Mozambique and the key elements of the country’s social protection system.
- Section 4 gives a detailed description of the research methods used, and how data were collected and analysed, as well as limitation s of the study.
- In Section 5 we provide a description of the two research study sites (the districts of Chokwe and Chibuto, in Gaza province) with an overview of population and settlement patterns, migrant labour, HIV and AIDS, formal social protection structures, and the main social protection actors.
- In Section 6 we provide an overview of the PSSB, its mechanisms and governance structure.
- Section 7 presents the research findings in relation to community understandings and experiences of poverty and vulnerability, as well as the coping strategies people use.
- Section 8 explores respondents’ knowledge of the PSSB and their perceptions regardingimplementation of the programme.
- Findings on the use of the cash transfer and perceptions around its value and impacts are described in Section 9.
- Finally, Section 10 presents the future directions, with policy recommendations for key stakeholders, including beneficiaries, national policy-makers, non-government actors, and development partners.
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Read the other reports of the collection:
- Transforming cash transfers: Beneficiary and community perspectives on the Cash Transfer for Orphans and Vulnerable Children Programme in Kenya
- 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