Conditional cash transfer programs

In conditional cash transfer programs, if education is not inclusive, children with disabilities may in practice be excluded by the requirement to enroll in and attend school. While inclusive education is the right long-run answer to this problem, in the interim, the conditions can be waived for such children. In Jamaica, for example, the PATH conditional cast transfer initiative waives the school attendance requirement if the child has a disability certificate and the program officer judges that the school is not sufficiently inclusive to allow the child to benefit from attending it. 

The plan is to convert the program into a conditional cash transfer program following a pilot program in 2007 that is still ongoing. 

The program s aim was to increase primary school enrollment, promote attendance, and reduce dropout rates among children from landless and very poor families. It provided rice and/or wheat transfers to poor households conditional on minimum school attendance by the children (85% per month) in primary school. The program was converted into a conditional cash transfer program (Primary Education Stipend Program) in 2002. 

Adato, Michelle, Terence Roopnaraine, Natalia Smith, Elif Altinok, Nurfer ( elebioglu, and Serna Cemal. 2007. An Evaluation of the Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Turkey Second Qualitative and Anthropological Study. Washington, DC International Food Pohcy Research Institute. 

Ahmed, Akhter U. 2004a. Assessing the Performance of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs for Girls and Boys in Primary and Secondary Schools in Bangladesh. Project report prepared for the World Bank. Washington, DC International Food Policy Research Institute. 

Demand and Supply-Side Determinants of Conditional Cash Transfer Program... 

Maluccio, John A., and Rafael Flores. 2004. Impact Evaluation of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program The Nicaraguan Red de Proteccion Social. Discussion Paper 184. Washington, DC International Food Policy Research Institute. 

Disability in Conditional Cash Transfer Programs Drawing on Experience in... 

Neufeld, Lynette M. 2006. Nutrition in the Oportunidades Conditional Cash Transfer Program Strengths and Challenges. Paper presented at the Third International Conference on Conditional Cash Transfers, Istanbul, June 26—30, 2006. 

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Sadoulet, Ehsabeth, Frederico Finan, Alain de Janvry, and Renos Vakis. 2004. Can Conditional Cash Transfer Programs Improve Social Risk Management Social Protection Discussion Paper 0420. Washington DC World Bank. 

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America s Experience with Conditional Cash Transfer Programs Sp... 

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