For more information about the workshop, please contact Benjamin Davis at benjamin.davis@fao.org or Sudhanshu Handa at shanda@email.unc.edu.

In additional to individual presentations and/or comments linked to in the agenda below, the following key documents are available:

• Agenda
• List of Participants
• Workshop Photos
  

WORKSHOP ON EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF CASH TRANSFER PROGRAMS IN SUB SAHARAN AFRICA

February 5-8, 2012
Aberdares Country Club, Kenya

Arrival: Sunday, February 5th

DAY 1: Monday, February 6th

Session I (8:30-12:30)

• Chair: Rachel Yates (UNICEF-HQ)

Welcome (8:30-8:45)

• Benjamin Davis (FAO) and Gaspar Fafth (UNICEF-ESARO)

Setting the scene (8:45-9:30)

• Overview of SCT impact evaluations in Sub Saharan Africa—status of impact evaluations in the region, the Transfer Project, the research network, From Protection to Production Project
  • Benjamin Davis (FAO) and Ashu Handa (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Presentation #1 (9:30-10:30)

• CCTs and HIV Prevention: Evidence from a RCT in South Africa
  • Presentation: Tamu Daniel (Wits University)
  • Discussant: Harsha Thirumurthy (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Break (10:30-11:00)

Presentation #2 (11:00-12:00)

• Social Cash Transfers and HIV Prevention: Evidence from the Kenya CT-OVC
  • Presentation: Ashu Handa (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
  • Discussant: Jukka Pirttila (Finland)

Presentation #3 (12:00-12:30)

• CCTs and ARVs—A study design from Uganda
  • Presentation: Harsha Thirumurthy (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Lunch (12:30-13:30)

Session II (13:30-17:00)

• Chair: Daniel Musembi (Government of Kenya)

Presentation #4 (13:30-14:30)

• Recent experiences in targeting
  • Lesotho CGP—Luca Pellerano (OPM)
  • Zambia—Zambia SCT evaluation team
  • Discussant: Benedicte de la Briere (World Bank)

Presentation #5 (14:30-15:30)

• Results from the TASAF impact evaluation, Tanzania
  • Presentation: Joachim De Weerdt (EDI)
  • Discussant: Radhika Lal (IPC-IG)

Break (15:30-15:45)

Presentation #6 (15:45-16:45)

• Impact evaluation design and ex ante simulation
  • Using existing data to evaluate a cash transfer program: experience from Ghana’s LEAP Evaluation: Robert Osei (University of Ghana), Ashu Handa (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
  • The Zambia Child Grant impact evaluation: ex ante simulation: David Seidenfeld (AIR)
  • Discussant: Fabio Veras Soares (IPC-IG)

Transfer to the Ark for those going (17:00)

Dinner (19:00)

DAY 2: Tuesday, February 7th

Session III (8:30-12:00)

• Chair: Katie Chapman (DFID)

Presentation #7

• Incorporating qualitative methods with quantitative impact evaluations of CTs in SSA: experiences from selected countries
  • Conceptual Framework – Benedicte de la Briere (World Bank)
  • Lesotho: Luca Pellerano (OPM)
  • PtoP: Pamela Pozarny (FAO)
  • Malawi: Peter Mvula (University of Malawi)
• Simulating the local economy impacts of CT programs: sample and survey design issues, and an application to the Lesotho CGP program
  • Presentation: Ed Taylor (UC Davis)
  • Discussant: Paul Winters (American University)

Break

Presentation #8

• The impact of the Kenya CT-OVC on economic decision making
  • Presentation: Solomon Asfaw (FAO)
  • Discussant: Fabio Veras Soares (IPC-IG)

Lunch

Session IV

• Chair: Nicola Hypher (SCUK)

Presentation #9

• The impact of the Monze cash transfer program on economic activities
  • Presentation: David Seidenfeld (AIR)
  • Discussant: Ed Taylor (UC Davis)
• The impact of the Malawi SCT program on productive activities—an update
  • Presentation: Paul Winters (American University)
  • Discussant: Peter Mvula (University of Malawi)

Break

Presentation #10

• Innovation in survey design: economic decision making, local economy effects, sexual violence, women’s decision-making, time preference
  • Ben Davis (FAO)
  • Ashu Handa (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
  • Zimbabwe SCT evaluation team

Bush Dinner (19:00-)

DAY 3: Wednesday, February 8th

Session V

• Chair: Carlos Alviar (UNICEF)

Presentation #11 (8:30-10:00)

• New impact evaluations in SSA. What do they have in store for us?
  • Ethiopia (IFPRI/IDS): Solomon Asfaw (FAO) and Martha Kibur (UNICEF)
  • Malawi: Maki Kato (UNICEF)
  • Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe SCT evaluation team
  • Uganda: Fred Merttens (OPM)

Break (10:00-10:15)

Panel session #12 10:15-11:30)

• Dissemination strategies and influencing policy
  • Nicola Hypher (Save the Children)
  • Matthew Greenslade (DFID)
  • Tosarepi Amos Chinake (Zimbabwe)
  • Rachel Yates (UNICEF)
  • Kelly Toole (DFID-Zambia)
  • Manzunzu Zulu (Government of Zambia)

Closing and way forward 11:30-12:00)

• Next steps
  • Benjamin Davis (FAO) and Ashu Handa (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Lunch (12:00-12:30)

Departure (12:30)