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GUINEA
Cash Transfer for Health, Nutrition and Education
Programme
Country
Geographic area
Previous programme name (if any)
Cash Transfer for Health, Nutrition and Education
Guinea
Start date 2013 1
Sub-Saharan Africa
Programme objectives To provide income support to vulnerable groups 2
Programme type
Conditional cash transfer
Programme components
Cash transfers for health, children’s education
and school lunch programmes
Conditionalities (if any)
Cash transfers for nutrition are expected to be spent by the
households on nutrition, particularly for children. Therefore, if after
the third transfer the children’s health status shows no improvement
due to wilful neglect, the grant is suspended. Reintegration into
the programme after suspension is possible if the children
show improvement in their weight-to-height measurement.
Cash transfers for health are conditional upon children’s
health being regularly checked (once per quarter) at
health centres for children under six years of age.
Cash transfer for education requires 90 per cent
school attendance for children aged 7–14. 2
Targeting methods
Cash transfer for nutrition: geographical targeting; community
-based targeting; proxy means-testing; categorical targeting
Cash transfer for nutrition: geographical targeting
Cash transfer for health and education: geographical targeting;
proxy means-testing 2
Target areas
The cash transfer programme has been implemented in 4 prefectures,
16 sub-prefectures and 75 villages. Prefectures were selected based
on high child malnutrition rates and low school attendance rates.
An agreement between the government of Guinea and the World
Food Programme (WFP) has been signed for the implementation
of the programme. Fifty-four schools benefit from this in the following
prefectures: Mali, Pita, Telimele, Siguiri and Kerouane.
Target groups Children below the age of 14
Eligibility criteria
Cash transfer for nutrition: potential beneficiary households must
be poor (as confirmed by a poverty survey and based on durable asset
ownership to approximate revenue) and care for children (aged 0–24
months) who suffer from chronic malnutrition and have a -2 standard
deviation in the age-to-height indicator.
Cash transfer for health and education: beneficiary households are
poor (as confirmed by a poverty survey and based on durable asset
ownership to approximate revenue conducted by the National Institute
for Statistics). Beneficiaries are all children aged 0–14 in selected
households. Children aged 7–14 must be girls enrolled in primary
school, who also demonstrate 90 per cent school attendance.
Eligibility reassessment (if any)
Type of benefits
Cash
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