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TANZANIA
Community-Based Conditional Cash Transfer
Programme
Community-Based Conditional Cash Transfer
Country
Tanzania
Geographic area
Sub-Saharan Africa
Previous programme name (if any)
Start date 2009 1
Programme objectives
To test how a conditional cash transfer (CCT) programme could employ
a community-driven development (CDD) approach, and investigate which
systems achieve better results for highly vulnerable populations. 2
Programme type
Conditional cash transfer
Programme components This programme is part of the larger Tanzania Social Action Fund (TASAF). 1
Conditionalities (if any)
To ensure that children are properly educated and that children and
elderly people are healthy: children aged 0–5 had to visit a health clinic
six times per year and those aged 7–15 needed to be enrolled in school
with attendance rates of at least 80 per cent; elderly people had to visit a
health clinic once per year. 2,3
Targeting methods Categorical and community-based targeting. 3
Target areas
TASAF covers villages in the districts of Bagamoyo, Chamwino and
Kibaha, which were the poorest and most vulnerable districts, selected
by ranking the following indicators: poverty level, food insecurity, primary
school gross enrolment ratio, access to safe water, access to health
facilities, AIDS case rates and road accessibility. 1
Target groups
Children and the vulnerable elderly people.
Eligibility criteria
Eligible households had an orphan and/or vulnerable child or an
elderly person (60 years or older). The selection criteria were based on
household characteristics of very poor people, as determined by the local
communities. Vulnerable children were those who were abandoned, or
were chronically sick, or were orphans (one or both parents deceased),
or who had one or two chronically sick parents. Vulnerable elderly people
were those with no caregivers, or who were sick or very poor. Priority
was given to the following categories: first to child-headed households;
second to households headed by an elderly person; and third to
households composed solely of elderly persons. 1,2
Eligibility reassessment (if any)
Type of benefits
Cash
Amount of benefits
The amount of benefits varied according to the number of elderly
people and vulnerable children in each household, from a minimum
transfer of USD12 to a maximum transfer of USD36. A transfer of
USD6 was granted for each child and USD12 for each elderly person,
leading to an average payment of USD14.50 per household. 1,3
Payment/delivery frequency
Bi-monthly
Benefit delivery mechanism
Community management committees were responsible
for making payments to the beneficiary households. 2
Benefit recipients
Usually the mother of the children in the
household—if present—was the recipient. 2
Minimum and maximum
duration of benefits (if any)
Coverage 5,000 households or 13,000 beneficiaries (2013) 1
Programme expenditure By 2011, TZS900,872,500 had been disbursed for this pilot. 4
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