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Cash Plus End-line Evaluation
Overview
The Ujana Salama cash-plus was implemented between 2018 and 2019, under the Government of the URT’s Productive Social Safety Net (PSSN), by TASAF in collaboration with TACAIDS and with technical assistance from UNICEF. The impact evaluation includes four rounds of data collection – in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021.
There is growing evidence that cash transfer (CT) programs can facilitate safe transitions to adulthood. CT programs bundled with light-touch or intensive complementary interventions, or “cash plus” youth-targeted interventions, may carry huge potential to this end, helping youth and their families to leverage the cash and further strengthen human, social, health and economic assets. However, to date, no impact evaluations have specifically examined impacts of a cash plus intervention on youth well-being and the transition to adulthood within the context of a government transfer programme in Africa. Furthermore, existing government-led programs and donor and civil society youth empowerment interventions, while widely implemented, come with little evidence as to their effectiveness and scalability and as to whether design and implementation elements influence outcomes.
The aim of the Cash Plus evaluation therefore is to examine the potential for a “PSSN plus” component targeted to youth, integrated within the livelihoods enhancement component of the PSSN, to impact safe transitions to adulthood in Tanzania, recognizing that cash alone is rarely sufficient to mitigate the full range of risks associated with this transition. While the existing PSSN includes a livelihoods component targeted to adults/households, the examined “plus” intervention targets youth for an additional youth-focused livelihoods intervention.
The evaluation aims to examine how economic empowerment and linkages to existing services can enable youth to leverage their households’ participation in the government CT program, to increase their wellbeing today and opportunities for the future.
Report Details
| Year Published | |
| Type | |
| Joint | No |
| Partner/s | N/A |
| Consultant name | UNICEF Innocenti - Global Office of Research and Foresight |
| Agency Focal Point | Luisa Natali |
| Focal Point Email | lnatali@unicef.org |
| Managed by Independent Evaluation Office | No |
| Geographic Scope | Country |
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