Evaluation Note IPC-IG
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Item ¿Qué Familias Están en Condiciones de Salir del Programa Familias en Acción?(2008) Villa, Juan MiguelLa mayoría de los Programas focalizados no poseen reglas claras sobre la salida de beneficiarios cuando mejoran sus condiciones de vida. En algunos las condiciones de salida son iguales a las condiciones de entrada, sin consideraciones sobre la vulnerabilidad que los hogares poseen para volver catalogados como beneficiarios en el futuro una vez retirados. Este último es el caso del Programa de Transferencias Condicionadas de Dinero – Familias en Acción, en donde el ingreso de las familias se realiza por medio de la clasificación basada en el SISBEN. En el presente estudio se propone un mecanismo para identificar a las familias que han mejorado su clasificación socioeconómica en este Programa, pasando a un nivel SISBEN igual o superior a 2, y que además posean menores probabilidades de volver a caer en las condiciones de vida que propiciaron su ingreso. Los resultados muestran que tan solo cerca del 31% de las familias que poseen las dos condiciones anteriores pueden ser retiradas con el menor riesgo de que vuelvan a ser Nivel 1. (...)Item Evaluating the Impact of Brazil’s Bolsa Família: Cash Transfer Programmes in Comparative Perspective(2007) Soares, Fabio Veras; Ribas, Rafael Perez; Osorio, Rafael GuerreiroBolsa Família is one of the largest Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programmes in the world, benefiting roughly 11 millions families. It provides a monthly transfer to poor households with children up to 15 years of age and/or a pregnant woman, and a monthly transfer to extremely poor households regardless of their composition. Although Brazil does not have official poverty lines, the programme has set the eligibility threshold at R$ 60 (US$ 33) per capita for extremely poor households and at R$120 (US$66) per capita for poor households. (...)Item Debating Targeting Methods for Cash Transfers: A Multidimensional Index vs. an Income Proxy for Paraguay’s Tekoporã Programme(2008) Ribas, Rafael Perez; Hirata, Guilherme Issamu; Soares, Fabio VerasThere is a lively global debate on how to target beneficiaries of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programmes. In this Evaluation Note we analyze alternative targeting methods for Paraguay’s CCT programme, Tekoporã. The major practical choice for Paraguay is between a multidimensional quality-of-life index and a proxy-means test for income. We focus on the efficiency and efficacy of these approaches by examining primarily the trade-off between leakage and coverage. Tekoporã is a CCT programme that is being scaled up in Paraguay. Like other recent CCT programmes, it was designed in the context of a national strategy for combating poverty, as part of the general effort to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Its pilot started in August 2005, covering 4,500 households in five districts of two departments. Tekoporã is gradually expanding and intends to cover 35 districts by 2008. These districts were selected from the pool of 66 districts that had been judged to have the most vulnerable populations, according to a scoring system based on a Geographical Prioritization Index (IPG). Tekoporã’s objective is to break the intergenerational transmission of poverty by means of the cash transfer and follow-up activities for beneficiary households. This follow-up consists of the monitoring of co-responsibilities (between beneficiaries and the programme) with regard to the supply and use of health and education facilities and the development of related family-support activities. (...)Item Achievements and Shortfalls of Conditional Cash Transfers: Impact Evaluation of Paraguay’s Tekoporã Programme(2008) Soares, Fabio Veras; Ribas, Rafael Perez; Hirata, Guilherme IssamuThe International Poverty Centre (IPC), with the support of GTZ and UNFPA, has recently undertaken an impact evaluation of the pilot of Tekoporã, a Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme in Paraguay. Previously, IPC analysed the logical framework of this programme and its implementation challenges, and assessed its targeting mechanisms. This Evaluation Note presents a summary of the impacts of the programme on household behaviour and well-being, as reported in Soares et al. (2008). The evaluation of a pilot project can offer important inputs into the decision-making process on the feasibility of the scaling-up of the programme, the effectiveness of its design and the assessment of problems that limit its potential. The evaluation of Tekoporã shows positive impacts on per capita income and consumption, poverty reduction, school attendance, investment in agricultural production, access to credit, savings and social participation. Indeed, these results easily justify its scaling-up. However, the pilot has not been successful in reducing child labour or increasing child immunizations. Thus, addressing these aspects needs to be a key part of any redesign of the programme when it is scaled up. Tekoporã seeks to reduce extreme poverty by using direct cash transfers to poor households with children and diminish the potential for future poverty by encouraging investment in human and social capital. The programme intends to break the intergenerational cycle of poverty through investments in the health and education of children. The transfers are conditional on school attendance, regular visits to health centres and updating of immunizations. The programme also includes a family support initiative that, among having other effects, should increase the productive potential of the household and its social participation. (...)