Exploring economic empowerment and gender issues in Lesotho's Child Grants Programme: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT: Cash transfers (CTs) have been increasingly used in low- and middle-income countries as a poverty reduction and social protection tool. Despite their potential for empowering vulnerable groups (especially women), the evidence for such outcomes remains unclear. Additionally, little is known about how this broad concept fits into and is perceived in such programmes. For example, Lesotho's Child Grants Programme (CGP) is an unconditional CT targeting poor and vulnerable households with children. The CGP has been presented as one of the Lesotho's flagship programmes in developing the country's social safety net system. Using the CGP's early phases as a case study, this research aims to capture how programme stakeholders understood and operationalized the concept of economic empowerment (especi

SUBMITTER: Besnier E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11651286 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature