The broad range of impacts of the Child Grant Programme in Lesotho

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dc.creatorAgricultural Development Economics Division
dc.date2023-04-27T11:43:18Z
dc.date2023-04-27T11:43:18Z
dc.date2014
dc.date2018-01-04T07:06:41.0000000Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-28T01:19:16Z
dc.descriptionThe Lesotho Child Grants Programme (CGP) is an unconditional social cash transfer targeted to poor and vulnerable households. The objective of the CGP is to improve the living standards of Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) so as to reduce malnutrition, improve health status, and increase school enrolment among OVC. Households are selected through a combination of proxy means testing and community validation and registered in the National Information System for Social Assistance (NISS A). The programme is run by the Ministry of Social Development, with financial support from the European Commission and technical support from UNIC EF-Lesotho. As of March 2014, the CGP reached 19 800 households and provided benefits for approximately 65 000 children across 10 districts in Lesotho. Since 2009 the nature of the CGP has been transformed. From an exclusively donor-supported pilot, the CGP has developed institutional and operational systems for roll-out at a national scale. Funding has bee n taken over by the government, which is now considering nationwide expansion of the CGP and the NISS A, with the latter serving as a platform for better harmonizing social protection interventions in the country.
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/333319
dc.languageEnglish
dc.rightsFAO
dc.titleThe broad range of impacts of the Child Grant Programme in Lesotho
dc.titleThe broad range of impacts of the Child Grant Programme in Lesotho
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