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MADAGASCAR
Argent Contre Travail—Cash for Work
Programme
Country
Geographic area
Previous programme name (if any)
Start date
Programme objectives
Programme type
Programme components
Argent Contre Travail—Cash for Work
Madagascar
Sub-Saharan Africa
To create temporary jobs in crisis-afflicted zones and improve
communities’ infrastructures, through collective production
works or projects aimed at improving environments. 1
Cash for work; unconditional cash transfer
Cash for work: an unconditional cash transfer is provided to
targeted families who are not able to work or who have a member:
with disabilities or who is over 65 years old or who is pregnant. 1
Conditionalities (if any)
Targeting methods Geographical and community-based targeting. 1
Target areas Crisis-afflicted zones 1
Target groups
Poor able-bodied adults
Eligibility criteria
Individuals who are over 18 years of age and able to work;
an unconditional cash transfer is provided to those who are
not able to work or who have a member: with disabilities or
who is over 65 years old or who is pregnant. 1
Eligibility reassessment (if any)
Type of benefits
Cash
Amount of benefits
MGA3,000 for each 5-hour working day;
beneficiaries work 4 days a week. 1
Payment/delivery frequency
Benefit delivery mechanism
Benefit recipients
Minimum and maximum
duration of benefits (if any)
Beneficiaries may work 45 days per year divided into two periods:
25 days during the ‘lean’ season (between January and June)
and 20 days before the new school year (July and December). 1
Coverage 150 beneficiaries per Fokontany (village) 1
Programme expenditure Cash for work: USD500,000 (2011-2012) 1
Institutions and agencies involved Fonds d’Intervention pour le Développement (FID)
Monitoring and evaluation
mechanisms and frequency
See the references on page 177: Argent Contre Travail—Cash for Work
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