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Social Cash Transfer Programme (SCT)
Programme
Social Cash Transfer Programme (SCT)
Country
Liberia
Geographic area
Sub-Saharan Africa
Previous programme name
(if any)
Start date First payments: 2009
Official launch: 2010 1
Programme objectives To reduce vulnerability among ultra-poor, labour-constrained households.
Programme type Unconditional cash transfer; social support services 2
Programme components Cash transfer, and social support services, such as promotion
of education and adequate nutrition, and birth registration. 2
Conditionalities (if any)
Targeting methods
Proxy means test and geographical targeting.
Target areas Bomi and Maryland counties. 1,2
Target groups
Labour-constrained and extremely poor households.
Eligibility criteria
Eligible households were both extremely poor (as measured by their level of
material assets, alternative resources and access to food) and labour-constrained,
with a dependency ratio equal to or greater than three to one. 1
Eligibility reassessment
(if any)
Type of benefits
Amount of benefits
Payment/delivery frequency
Benefit delivery mechanism
Monitors from the SCT Secretariat and community leaders
were responsible for verifying and correcting beneficiary lists. 1
Cash
1-person household: LRD700 (USD10)
2-person Household: LRD1,050 (USD15)
3-person Household: LRD1,400 (USD20)
4-person (or more) household: LRD1,750 (USD25) 1
Plus: LRD150 (USD2) for each child in primary school
LRD300 (USD4) for each child in secondary school 1
Monthly
Payments were administered by EcoBank through designated distribution
points throughout both counties and overseen by the SCT Secretariat. 1
In 2014, beneficiaries in the central urban centres (Tubmanburg City, Harper
and Pleebo) were paid through Mobile Money, a facility that enables payment
through mobile phones.
Heads of households
The programme allows retargeting and possible
graduation after each two-year period.
Benefit recipient
Minimum and maximum
duration of benefits (if any)
Coverage Approximately 3,798 households or 19,000 individuals (2014).
Programme expenditure Approximately EUR4 million
Institutions and agencies
involved
Monitoring and evaluation
mechanisms and frequency
Government of Liberia (Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection);
UNICEF and the European Union provided funding up to 2014, and the
World Bank is providing additional funds to this programme up to March 2016. 1
An external mid-term evaluation was commissioned by the Government of Liberia
and UNICEF and carried out by the Centre for Global Health and Development
(CGHD) at Boston University. An end-of-programme external evaluation was
conducted by Suba Belle and Associates (SBA) in August 2015. 1
See the references on page 177: Social Cash Transfer Programme (SCT)
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