Policy Brief - Country Series: 皇冠体育app Broad Range of Impacts of the Child Grant Programme in Lesotho

Policy Brief

From:: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Published: 1 January 2014

Country:: Lesotho
Document Type:: Briefing
皇冠体育appme:: Economic Growth
First published:: 1 January 2014
Authors:: FAO

Abstract

皇冠体育app Lesotho Child Grants Programme (CGP) is an unconditional social cash transfer targeted to poor and vulnerable households. 皇冠体育app objective of the CGP is to improve the living standards of Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) so as to reduce malnutrition, improve health status, and increase school enrolment among OVC. Households are selected through a combination of proxy means testing and community validation and registered in the National Information System for Social Assistance (NISSA).

Citation

FAO. Policy Brief - Country Series: 皇冠体育app Broad Range of Impacts of the Child Grant Programme in Lesotho. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy (2014) 4 pp.

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