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Book Synopsis Egypt’s Takaful and Karama cash transfer program: Evaluation of program impacts and recommendations by : Breisinger, Clemens
Download or read book Egypt’s Takaful and Karama cash transfer program: Evaluation of program impacts and recommendations written by Breisinger, Clemens and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Egypt has been providing cash to poor households through its first conditional cash transfer program, Takaful and Karama, a social protection program run by the Ministry of Social Solidarity (MoSS), since March 2015. Takaful (“Solidarity”) supports poor families with children under 18, while Karama (“Dignity”) supports the elderly poor and people living with disabilities. The cash transfer program has enrolled 2.25 million families across all of Egypt’s governorates. The amount of the Takaful cash transfer provided to households depends on the number of children and their school level. The Karama program provides a set amount per individual. In order to reach the poorest households, participants are selected using a proxy means test. In the Takaful program, 89 percent of recipients are women, while only 11 percent are men. Beginning in 2018, Takaful will also begin implementing conditionalities, requiring households in the program to ensure their children attend school and participate in health screenings, added to antenatal care for pregnant women and post-natal care. The Takaful and Karama program was evaluated by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) using both quantitative statistical methods (simple questions asked to many households during a survey) and qualitative methods (more in-depth questions asked to fewer households in longer interviews). The evaluation was designed to measure and explain the impacts of the cash transfers on household welfare, and to examine whether the program’s criteria for household selection were effective in identifying poor households. This brief, which focuses on the Takaful component of the program, summarizes the main findings from the evaluation and key recommendations.
Book Synopsis Impact evaluation study for Egypt's Takaful and Karama cash transfer program: Part 1: Quantitative report by : Breisinger, Clemens
Download or read book Impact evaluation study for Egypt's Takaful and Karama cash transfer program: Part 1: Quantitative report written by Breisinger, Clemens and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2018-10-19 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report of the evaluation study provides a greater focus on measuring the impact of the larger Takaful program and also attempts to measure the impact of the much smaller Karama program. In addition, IFPRI will conduct a qualitative assessment of the Takaful and Karama program focused on learning about the experience with the program among the poorest beneficiary households. This qualitative assessment will also draw lessons from the quantitative survey to provide another report on the experience of very poor households. The remainder of this report is organized as follows Chapter 2 provides an overview of the Takaful and Karama Program. Chapter 3 summarizes the impact evaluation design. Chapter 4 describes the evaluation survey and sample. Chapter 5 provides context for the program by using the survey data to summarize the characteristics of beneficiary and non-beneficiary households and describe beneficiaries’ experience with program implementation. Chapter 6 presents the impact estimates for Takaful and Chapter 7 the estimates for Karama. Chapter 8 uses data from a separate representative sample of households collected during the survey to assess the targeting performance of the program. Chapter 9 concludes and discusses implications for social policy in Egypt.
Book Synopsis Impact evaluation study for Egypt's Takaful and Karama cash transfer program: Part 2: Qualitative Report by : ElDidi, Hagar
Download or read book Impact evaluation study for Egypt's Takaful and Karama cash transfer program: Part 2: Qualitative Report written by ElDidi, Hagar and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This qualitative evaluation of the Takaful cash transfer program was conducted between January and April 2018 by a team of researchers trained in qualitative methods. The evaluation sought to further delve into and explain dimensions of the Takaful transfers’ impact on beneficiaries that were previously under-investigated in the quantitative survey. In so doing, the quantitative components’ findings were also further contextualized and clarified. This qualitative component’s main goals, therefore, were to explore the differences between the transfers’ impact on ultra-poor households and households near the threshold, the differences in how the two household types use the transfer, and the impact of the transfers on intrahousehold decision making with special focus on women.
Book Synopsis Egypt's Takaful and Karama Cash Transfer Program: Evaluation of Program Impacts and Recommendations by : Clemens Breisinger
Download or read book Egypt's Takaful and Karama Cash Transfer Program: Evaluation of Program Impacts and Recommendations written by Clemens Breisinger and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Egypt’s Takaful Cash Transfer Program: Impacts and recommendations from the second round evaluation by : El-Enbaby, Hoda
Download or read book Egypt’s Takaful Cash Transfer Program: Impacts and recommendations from the second round evaluation written by El-Enbaby, Hoda and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2023-05-04 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Egypt’s national cash transfer program, Takaful, and its sister program Karama covered 17 million poor beneficiaries as of 2022, about 16 percent of the Egyptian population. Takaful was designed in 2015 as a conditional cash transfer program providing income support targeted to the most vulnerable, namely poor families with children under age 18. As one of the largest programs — both in absolute terms and in terms of share of the population covered — in the wave of national cash transfer programs spreading across Africa, as well as an innovator among countries in the Middle East, Egypt’s experience has the potential to serve as a model for these regions. The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), in collaboration with the Ministry of Social Solidarity, conducted a first-round evaluation of the program in 2017 to estimate its effects on household well-being (Breisinger et al. 2018). That evaluation found large positive impacts on several outcomes, most notably, household consumption. The second-round evaluation, conducted in 2022, found a shift toward greater investment in physical and human capital among program beneficiaries. This brief summarizes the main findings from that second-round evaluation, noting differences from the first evaluation results and providing key recommendations.
Book Synopsis Impact evaluation study for Egypt's Takaful and Karama cash transfer program: Synthesis report- Summary of key findings form the quantitative and qualitative impact evaluation studies by : Breisinger, Clemens
Download or read book Impact evaluation study for Egypt's Takaful and Karama cash transfer program: Synthesis report- Summary of key findings form the quantitative and qualitative impact evaluation studies written by Breisinger, Clemens and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since March 2015, the Government of Egypt has been providing cash to poor households through the Takaful and Karama program. The program is run by the Ministry of Social Solidarity (MoSS). Takaful supports poor families with children under 18 years of age, while Karama supports the poor elderly and disabled. For Takaful, the amount of cash that households receive depends on the number of children and their school level, while the Karama transfer is a set rate per individual. In 2018, Takaful will also begin requiring households in the program to make sure their children attend school and participate in health screenings. The program was evaluated by IFPRI, an international research organization, using both quantitative statistical methods (simple questions asked to many households during a survey) and qualitative methods (more in-depth questions asked to fewer households in longer interviews). The main goal of this evaluation was to measure and explain how the transfers affected the welfare of households in the program. In addition, the evaluation describes how well the program selection criteria work for identifying poor households.
Book Synopsis Impact evaluation report: Egypt’s Takaful Cash Transfer Program: Second round report by : El Enbaby, Hoda
Download or read book Impact evaluation report: Egypt’s Takaful Cash Transfer Program: Second round report written by El Enbaby, Hoda and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Egypt introduced the Takaful and Karama Program (TKP), a pair of targeted cash transfer schemes in March 2015. Takaful and Karama was designed as a conditional cash transfer program providing income support targeted to the poor and most vulnerable; namely poor families with children (under 18 years of age), poor elderly (aged 65 years and above) and persons with severe disability. Originally implemented as an unconditional cash transfer, the program is now a conditional cash transfer program, but the conditionalities have yet to be monitored. Starting July 2017, households received EGP60 for each child under 6 years old, EGP80 for each child in primary education, EGP100 for children in preparatory education, and EGP140 for secondary education. As of June 2017, 90% of TKP beneficiaries were women. In 2018, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) completed the first round of impact evaluation of TKP, based on household survey data collected after the first 15 months of the program. The evaluation found that TKP substantially improved wellbeing for poor households, increasing household consumption per adult equivalent by 8.4 percent. and reducing the probability that a beneficiary household is poor (< USD1.90 per capita per day) by 11.4 percentage points, which is comparable to several of the well-known, large-scale programs in Latin America where consumption impacts are on the order of 7-8 percent.
Book Synopsis Cash Transfers and State-citizen Relation in Egypt by : Ebshoy Magdy Zaki
Download or read book Cash Transfers and State-citizen Relation in Egypt written by Ebshoy Magdy Zaki and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The purpose of this study is to find out how the new cash transfer program, Takaful and Karama, implemented by the Egyptian government is affecting the relationship between the Egyptian state and its citizens. This is done through depicting the accounts of the two main actors in this relation: the state and its citizens. In the quest for achieving the objective of this study, a qualitative approach is being applied through using content analysis to depict the account of the state and semi-structured interviews to depict the accounts of the beneficiaries of and the applicants to the program. The study first puts this new cash transfer program in a broader context through examining its relation to the current economic, social and political-economic scene in Egypt. In a second step, the study finds how the beneficiaries of and applicants to the program interact with the state and how they perceive some aspects of the program such as conditionality and means-testing. In a final and third step, the study finds the effect of this new cash transfer program on the relationship between community and family members. Three main findings are derived from this study. The first finding is that the social policy in Egypt is ending more and more to be a liberal residual policy that is consisted of a number of palliative measures which are constituting what is called a social safety net. The aim of this net is to offset the effects of the economic reform policies on those who are conceived to be the deserving destitute. The rest of the population are asked to provide for themselves in the market. Cash transfers are being used as if they are the magic bullet for development and complementary policies are being missed. Macroeconomic stability is becoming the overriding goal to which all other goals, job creation and income protection, are subordinated. The second finding is that while people do not consider means-testing and conditionality as intrusive they tend to have their own ways to deal with means-testing and targeting. Personal discretion and human intervention will always be there and technology cannot be the cure for such defects especially in a context where informality is the norm. The third finding is that targeting is creating a state of competition and envy among community and family members. People tend to compete over the scarce resource and power relations will continue to play a role in such context.
Author :International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Publisher :Intl Food Policy Res Inst ISBN 13 : Total Pages :6 pages Book Rating :4./5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Symposium policy note 3: Cash transfers as an effective tool for social protection and shock response in Egypt by : International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Download or read book Symposium policy note 3: Cash transfers as an effective tool for social protection and shock response in Egypt written by International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This policy note is one in a series of four notes that summarizes key findings and recommendations from 32 seminars that IFPRI organized between 2016 and 2020 under the Evaluating Impact and Building Capacity Project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and from related research done in collaboration with national and international partners in Egypt. The briefs have been prepared on the basis of a joint symposium and are intended to give policy makers and program designers in the areas of social protection, nutrition, agricultural policy, and the digitalization of agriculture a quick overview of research-based recommendations on key policy issues that will better enable Egypt achieve several of the goals outlined in the Sustainable Development Strategy 2030. Social protection programs are essential for supporting Egyptians who are economically the most vulnerable. This brief makes the argument for moving more decisively toward a cash-based social protection system in Egypt. Four areas of action are highlighted: Continue the well-functioning Takaful and Karama program and consider increasing its budget to adjust transfers to inflation. Consider improving the targeting for Tamween food subsidies and integrating Takaful and Karama with Tamween. Continue the use of transparent and independent impact evaluations to assess social protection programs in order to maximize their benefits for Egypt and its people. Maintain the ability to respond flexibly to future shocks as an important feature of solidifying the national social protection system.
Book Synopsis Food subsidies and cash transfers in Egypt: Evaluating general equilibrium benefits and trade-offs by : Breisinger, Clemens
Download or read book Food subsidies and cash transfers in Egypt: Evaluating general equilibrium benefits and trade-offs written by Breisinger, Clemens and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Egyptians receive food subsidies, which are the cornerstone of the country’s social protection system. The government recently attempted to reduce subsidies, with limited success, and introduced a cash transfer program targeting the poor. We use a dynamic general equilibrium model of the Egyptian economy to evaluate the growth and distributional impacts of subsidy reforms and cash transfers. We find that the welfare of poor households would be enhanced by a smaller, but better targeted food subsidy program, and that, if the cost savings from reforms are channeled into investment, faster economic growth would eventually outweigh any short-term welfare losses. However, most of the gains from subsidy reforms accrue to nonpoor households. Combining subsidy reforms with cash transfers leads to the largest welfare gains for the poor, while leaving the welfare of nonpoor households largely intact. The latter is crucial to maintaining support for ongoing subsidy reform efforts.
Book Synopsis Cash transfers and women’s control over decision-making and labor supply in Egypt by : El-Enbaby, Hoda
Download or read book Cash transfers and women’s control over decision-making and labor supply in Egypt written by El-Enbaby, Hoda and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2019-12-23 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women’s control over decision-making within their family, particularly regarding the use of household income, can play an important and long-lasting role in shaping their well-being and that of their children. Cash transfer programs often target women in order to increase their control over household resources. Empirical evidence on the effectiveness of this approach is mixed and suggests the importance of local context. We present evidence on the effect of cash transfers on women’s control over decision-making in the MENA region, where little evidence is available and where cultural norms around women’s roles differ from more-studied regions. Using a regression discontinuity approach, we identify the impact of Egypt’s “Takaful” national cash transfer program on women’s control over decision-making and labor supply. Receiving cash transfers mostly reduced women’s reported ability to influence household decisions, particularly regarding child healthcare. The loss of control over decision-making was greater for women with less than primary education. Other effects of the program include a decline in women’s employment and an increase in men’s involvement in spheres of decision-making usually controlled by women. These results are robust to changes in model specification. We present suggestive evidence from mediation analysis that the negative effects on women’s control over decision-making was directly related to these declines in employment and increase in men’s involvement in female spheres. The negative findings are not wholly supported by complementary qualitative work in which women reported more positive perceptions of the program’s impacts.
Book Synopsis Leveraging food systems to reduce poverty and malnutrition by : Raza, A and Soares, F.
Download or read book Leveraging food systems to reduce poverty and malnutrition written by Raza, A and Soares, F. and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though substantial progress has been achieved worldwide in reducing both poverty and malnutrition, much is yet to be done. There are signs that the progress made in both dimensions has stalled in recent years. Poor-quality diets have become a major driver for overweight and obesity and associated non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, heart diseases, and some types of cancers. Conflict and climate vulnerability have been identified as major obstacles to reaching Sustainable Development Goal targets related to malnutrition by 2030. In 2019, economic downturns and slowdowns hindered efforts even further. More recently, the COVID-19 crisis has imposed even harsher conditions to countries.Poverty and malnutrition are inevitably linked, and therefore addressing one can help address the other. Given that most of the world’s extremely poor people and stunted children live primarily in rural areas and rely mostly on agriculture, the agriculture and food systems approach can offer an opportunity to reduce both poverty and malnutrition. The food systems approach places equal emphasis on both the supply and demand dimensions that are critical for ensuring healthier diets and better nutrition for poor and vulnerable groups.This special issue of Policy in Focus is dedicated to answering a crucial question: How can a food systems approach be used to design and implement policies and investments that reach those most vulnerable to poverty, hunger, malnutrition, and suboptimal diets? We hope that the contributions contained in this volume, by leading academics and development practitioners, exploring the linkages between nutrition, food systems, and poverty, can help stakeholders and policymakers make inroads towards the promotion of food and nutrition security and the reduction of rural poverty.
Book Synopsis The Future of Africa by : Jakkie Cilliers
Download or read book The Future of Africa written by Jakkie Cilliers and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access textbook offers a critical introduction to human and economic development prospects in Africa revolving around three questions: where is Africa today, what explains the current state, and, given historical trends and what we know about the world, where do we think the continent will be in 2040? And, a final question: what can we do to create a better tomorrow? It models ambitious progress in health, demographics, agriculture, education, industrialization, technological leapfrogging, increased trade, greater stability, better governance and external support. The book reviews the future of work/jobs, poverty and the impact of climate change. A combined Closing the Gap scenario presents a forecast of what could be possible by 2040. Each chapter suggests which policies might accelerate prospects for each sector. Written in an accessible style, and supported by a range of pedagogical features, this textbook introduces undergraduate and graduate students to the contemporary human and economic development prospects in Africa.
Book Synopsis Informality and Structural Transformation in Egypt, Iraq and Jordan A Framework for Assessing Policy Responses in the MENA Region by : OECD
Download or read book Informality and Structural Transformation in Egypt, Iraq and Jordan A Framework for Assessing Policy Responses in the MENA Region written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report Informality and Structural Transformation in the Middle east and North Africa outlines a framework for assessing the impact of economic and social policies on informality. The framework was developed jointly by the ILO, OECD and UNDP, and is thought as a hands-on instrument, allowing policy makers to foresee early on in the policymaking cycles the effects diverse economic and social policies could have on the informal economy.
Author :CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) Publisher :Intl Food Policy Res Inst ISBN 13 : Total Pages :87 pages Book Rating :4./5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Annual report 2020: CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) by : CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)
Download or read book Annual report 2020: CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) written by CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2020, PIM findings contributed to seed policies in Nepal and Uganda, Malawi’s extension strategy and approval of insect-resistant cotton, a nationwide program aimed at improving the effectiveness of public service delivery in Uganda, social protection programs in Egypt, and school gardens for better nutrition in Papua New Guinea. At the global level, PIM research was used to shape strategic decisions of organizations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, GIZ, the Inter-American Development Bank, the UK Government's Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, the World Bank and the World Health Organization. PIM tools were incorporated in universities’ curricula in India and South Africa. Examples of PIM innovations scaled up by partners in 2020 are private sector seed marketing in Ethiopia, picture-based insurance in Ethiopia, India and Kenya, and tools for inclusive governance of natural resources in India and Peru.
Author :International Monetary Fund. Middle East and Central Asia Dept. Publisher :International Monetary Fund ISBN 13 : Total Pages :108 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (2 download)
Book Synopsis Arab Republic of Egypt by : International Monetary Fund. Middle East and Central Asia Dept.
Download or read book Arab Republic of Egypt written by International Monetary Fund. Middle East and Central Asia Dept. and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2024-08-26 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policy actions taken in March as part of a strengthened program package, including unification of the exchange rate and a significant increase in the policy rate, combined with the augmentation of the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) Arrangement, the recent investment deal with Abu Dhabi Development Holding Company (ADQ) and the announcement of financing from the European Union, the World Bank, and other international partners, improved FX liquidity and helped restore confidence. Inflation has started to fall, though remains elevated, and there are signs that the three-and-a-half-year contraction of private sector activity is reversing.
Book Synopsis Boosting growth to end hunger by 2025: The role of social protection by : Wouterse, Fleur Stephanie
Download or read book Boosting growth to end hunger by 2025: The role of social protection written by Wouterse, Fleur Stephanie and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social protection programs—public or private initiatives that aid the poor and protect the vulnerable against livelihood risks—can effectively be used to assist those trapped, or at the risk of being trapped, in chronic poverty. These programs aim to address chronic poverty through redistribution and protect vulnerable households from falling below the poverty line. Although investments in social protection programs are often motivated by equity concerns, they can also contribute to economic growth by, for example, encouraging savings, creating community assets, and addressing market imperfections. Despite their potential and proliferation, not enough is known about social protection programs in Africa. The 2017–2018 Annual Trends and Outlook Report (ATOR) reduces this knowledge gap by focusing on the potential of such programs on the continent and the corresponding opportunities and challenges. The chapters of the Report highlight the benefits of these programs, not only to their direct recipients but also others in the community through spillover effects. They also underscore the importance of appropriate design and sustainability to fully realize the potential of social protection programs.
