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ANGOLA
Cartão Kikuia—Kikuia Card Cash Transfer Programme
Programme
Country
Geographic area
Cartão Kikuia—Kikuia Card Cash Transfer Programme
Angola
Sub-Saharan Africa
Previous programme name (if any)
Start date 2013 1
Programme objectives
To fight poverty while improving beneficiaries’ nutritional status
and reinforcing the role of women in fighting against food insecurity.
Programme type
Unconditional cash transfer
Programme components
Conditionalities (if any)
Targeting methods
Geographical targeting
Target areas
Priority is given to areas where the poverty and food insecurity
levels are higher, or areas which are considered more prone to
climate-related disasters.
Target groups
Children; elderly people; people with disabilities;
poor and food-insecure households. 1
Eligibility criteria
Households must have at least one of the following:
• a female head of household;
• a high dependency ratio;
• a member who has a disability or is a war veteran,
elderly or chronically ill;
• a malnourished child and/or at least one orphan. 1
Eligibility reassessment (if any)
Type of benefits
The transfer allows the beneficiary to purchase a set of available
products in programme stores, which are run by the government
(Lojas Kikuia), such as: food, agricultural inputs, construction material,
clothing, hygiene and cleaning materials, and school materials. 1
Amount of benefits KZ10,000 (approximately USD100) 1
Payment/delivery frequency Monthly 1
Benefit delivery mechanism
Benefit recipients
The card is preferably delivered to women
who are the heads of households. 1
Minimum and maximum
duration of benefits (if any)
Coverage 50,000 enrolled families in 2014.
The government aims to reach 425,000 beneficiaries by 2017. 1
Programme expenditure
Institutions and agencies involved Ministry of Commerce
Monitoring and evaluation
mechanisms and frequency
See the references on page 162: Cartão Kikuia—Kikuia Card Cash Transfer Programme
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