Cash transfers conditional on schooling reduce IPV among young women in South Africa

Cash Transfer and Intimate Partner Violence Research Collaborative; University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health

Cash transfers conditional on schooling reduce IPV among young women in South Africa

Autores

Cash Transfer and Intimate Partner Violence Research Collaborative

University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health

Editor

International Food Policy Research Institute

Descripción

This case study summarizes the impact from a conditional cash transfer program targeted to girls of secondary school age in South Africa. The program led to a 34 percent reduction in intimate partner physical violence by allowing girls to avoid potential violent partnerships, as transfers delayed sexual debut and lowered their number of sexual partners.