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28 Nov 2011
Report

Zambia’s Child Grant Program: Baseline Report

David Seidenfeld, AIR
Sudhanshu Handa, University of North Carolina

In 2010, Zambia’s Ministry of Community Development and Social Services began implementing the Child Grant cash transfer program in three districts. An impact evaluation with experimental design accompanied the program in order to learn its effects on recipients and provide evidence for making decisions about the future of the program. AIR was contracted by UNICEF Zambia in 2010 to design and implement a randomized controlled trial for a three-year impact evaluation of the program and to conduct the necessary data collection, analysis, and reporting.

The primary goals of this baseline report are to describe the sample developed for the evaluation and the approach to random assignment, assess targeting, check for equivalence between the treatment and control groups, and estimate potential effects of the program on outcomes by using statistical models that link outcomes to income and other factors. Predicting programmatic effects in advance introduces an extra level of the scientific method to the study by stating up front the hypothesized results, a characteristic not typically conducted in cash transfer studies but something that ideally would accompany any baseline report.

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12 Nov 2013
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Zambia’s Child Grant Program: 24-Month Impact Report

A Child Grant cash grant program for households with children under five in three districts in Zambia generated positive impacts, both in terms of immediate needs of the family and children's health, and in longer term productivity.

Topic: 
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Index

AIR Index: Zambia’s Cash Transfer Program

Zambia rolled out a no-strings-attached cash transfer program in 2010 for households with at least one child under five. Here’s a quick look at some of the results.
Topic: 
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28 Jan 2014
News Release

AIR’s Seidenfeld to Present Findings on Study of Zambia’s Cash Transfer Program

Since 2010, the Zambian government has been providing 60 kwacha a month ($12 U.S.) to district households with at least one child under the age of five. UNICEF Zambia hired AIR to design and conduct the study of the program’s effectiveness, with funding provided by UNICEF, Irish Aid and Britain’s Department for International Development. David Seidenfeld, AIR senior researcher, will discuss the results of the study during an appearance before the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) in Washington, D.C.
13 Aug 2014
News Release

AIR’s Evaluation of Zambia’s Cash Transfer Program Named Best UNICEF Research Study of 2014

An American Institutes for Research (AIR) study looking at Zambia’s cash transfer program has been selected by UNICEF as one of the best research studies of 2014. AIR principal researcher David Seidenfeld was the lead co-author of Zambia’s Child Grant Program: 24-Month Impact Report.

Further Reading

  • Zambia’s Multiple Category Cash Transfer Program: Baseline Report
  • Unconditional Government Social Cash Transfer in Africa Does Not Increase Fertility
  • Zambia's Child Grant Program: 48-Month Impact Report
  • Impact Evaluation of Zambia’s Multiple Category Transfer Grant Program
  • Zambia’s Multiple Category Targeting Grant: 36-Month Impact Report
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