WUNRN
Consider Issues of Child Labour
& Conditional Cash Transfers & Education of
THE GIRL CHILD
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International Poverty Centre - UNDP
Direct Link to Document:
Conditional Cash Transfers to Poor
Households & Child Labour
"Conditional Cash Transfer
(CCT) programmes provide cash to poor households. In return, the households are
expected to meet the conditionalities attached to schooling, among others.
Several evaluations have found positive impacts on primary school attendance.
One issue on which there is a heated
debate is the impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on child labour. Because the
programmes affect children's time allocation, some impact on child labour is
always expected. But it is not as evident as the impact associated with school
attendance." .........
"The incentive provided by a
cash transfer may not be sufficient to reduce child labour......Although more
evidence needs to be gathered, there are indicators that such a negative
outcome might occur. The CCT programme would have to circumvent this
situation."
"If the objective of
Conditional Cash Transfer programmes is to fight child labour, then proper
targeting, child labour-related conditionalities, stronger incentives, and
improved surveillance, are issues that have to be considered.".....
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