Description
The evaluation seeks to test the Theory of Change as outlined in terms of thefollowing propositions:
(a) Cash grants targeted at children directly reduces poverty and vulnerability.
(b) The CSG both increases consumption and enables poor households and carers to participate in productive economic activity (e.g. to look for work).
(c) The CSG addresses the underlying causes of poverty, by enabling poor households to invest in physical, social and human capital assets (education, health, nutrition), that can generate future streams of income.
(d) Receipt of the CSG reduces risky behaviour by adolescents, such as transactional sex, alcohol consumption and substance abuse.
(e) The appropriate design (unconditional, targeting caregivers) and effective implementation (regular delivery, low costs to participants) work to maximise the programme’s social and economic impacts.