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Cash transfers

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Integrating social protection and nutrition

Learning from six government-led and UNICEF supported cash plus programmes in Eastern and Southern Africa

Files available for download (7)

Synthesis of learning (PDF, 8 MB)

Burundi case study (PDF, 7 MB)

Ethiopia case study (PDF, 4 MB)

Kenya case study (PDF, 2 MB)

Mozambique case study (PDF, 4 MB)

Rwanda case study (PDF, 3 MB)

Tanzania case study (PDF, 714 KB)

Kids play in the streets of Mathare informal settlement, Kenya.

Social protection: Fast & fair support for African families

As COVID-19 and other shocks continue to impact sub-Saharan Africa, what is needed most is access to social protection and cash transfers

An adolescent girl stands in the doorway of a classroom, her baby held in a wrap on her back.

A perfect storm of shocks

Economies and children in sub-Saharan Africa are being pushed into crisis

On 24 January 2021 in Sofala Province, Mozambique, people queue during a food distribution at Tica Relocation Center, 80 kilometres from the city of Beira.

Africa’s children are paying for COVID-19 with their futures

Smart debt relief is a must

Esther, centre, a mother of four children, prepares maize to feed her children in Kibande in Northern Burundi.

On International Day of Families

Making the case for equity and social protection for all families

Two young girls holding toys and wearing protective face masks; their mother in the background

Support for ALL families on International Day of Families

The world must extend relief to the families of sub-Saharan Africa as they battle the COVID-19 economic crisis

A mother plays with her child

05 January 2021

Cash Transfers: A Lifeline for Children and Economies in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2021

Files available for download (1)

English (PDF, 2 MB)

Rafael, 11, sits on his bed studying.

26 November 2020

COVID-19: A catastrophe for children in sub-Saharan Africa

Cash transfers can help mitigate the biggest crisis to affect children in Africa in decades

Rafael, 11, sits on his bed studying.

10 November 2020

COVID-19: A Catastrophe for Children in sub-Saharan Africa

Cash transfers and a Marshall Plan can help

Files available for download (2)

Summary note (PDF, 995 KB)

Report (PDF, 6 MB)

Group of 5 sitting together smiling for camera

HIV-Sensitive Social Protection

Creating linkages between social cash transfer programmes and HIV services

Files available for download (1)

English (PDF, 1 MB)