This paper investigates the impact of the pilot phase of Paraguay?s conditional cash transfer programme, Tekoporã, on the demand for healthcare and education, and how much of this impact was due to the cash transfers and/or due to changes in behaviour/preferences, possibly as an effect of...

How Effective are the Non-monetary Components of CCT Programs?

Os programas de transferência condicionada de renda (PTC) vêm passando por um grande escrutínio de seus impactos em resultados intermediários, tais como o aumento da frequência escolar, melhor nutrição, maiores taxas de imunização, atendimento e cuidados pré e pós-natal e exames de...

Grande parte do debate sobre os programas de transferência condicional de renda (TCR) gira em torno das questões de segmentação e condicionalidade. Apesar das muitas avaliações já realizadas sobre o impacto dos programas de TCR, principalmente na América Latina, há pouca evidência de...

There is a lively global debate on how to target beneficiaries of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programmes. In this Evaluation Note we analyze alternative targeting methods for Paraguay?s CCT programme, Tekoporã. The major practical choice for Paraguay is between a multidimensional...

The International Poverty Centre (IPC), with the support of GTZ and UNFPA, has recently undertaken an impact evaluation of the pilot of Tekoporã, a Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme in Paraguay. Previously, IPC analysed the logical framework of this programme and its implementation...

Hay un vivo debate global sobre como seleccionar a los beneficiarios de los programas de Tranferencias Monetarias Condicionadas (TMC). En esta nota de evaluación analizamos los diferentes métodos de selección que fueron propuestos para el programa TMC de Paraguay, Tekoporã. La principal...

Much of the debate about conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes revolves around the issues of targeting and conditionalities. Despite the many impact evaluations of CCT programmes, mostly in Latin America, there is little evidence on either the effect of the cash alone or the value added by...