Cash Transfer for Orphans and Vulnerable Children Project. Ministry Gender Children Social Development operates in Kenya.
The Project aims to help the GOK to support roughly 50 percent of the country’s 600,000 OVC, who are extremely poor and vulnerable, and disadvantaged in access to basic services. It aims to strengthen households’ capacities to foster and retain OVC, and to promote their human capital development, through regular cash transfer payments. The project is built upon an existing pilot, which targets households on the basis of OVC status and various poverty indicators. The pilot is already being scaled-up by the GOK, and the proposed IDA assistance would help the GOK to improve the targeting of beneficiaries; harmonize approaches between districts; expand the number of beneficiary households; enhance the capacity of the GOK to manage the Program and strengthen the Program’s governance; continue the process of monitoring and evaluating the impact of the Program; and support development partner collaboration. The outcome of the Project would be more of these OVC in school and receiving basic health care, as well as improved incomes. The capacity of the GOK to plan for social protection policies and programs would also have been enhanced
