Cash in the City : Emerging Lessons from Implementing Cash Transfers in Urban Africa

Cash in the City : Emerging Lessons from Implementing Cash Transfers in Urban Africa

Poverty and crises are rapidly “urbanizing†. Yet experience with operationalizing cash transfers in urban areas is limited. This paper captures early lessons from a new generation of urban cash transfer responses to Covid-19 in eleven African c...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gentilini, Ugo, Khosla, Saksham, Almenfi, Mohamed
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
Subjects:
CASH TRANSFERS
SOCIAL SAFETY NET
SOCIAL PROTECTION
SOCIAL ASSISTANCE
URBAN POVERTY
URBANIZATION
INFORMALITY
SERVICE DELIVERY
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/424421610013456565/Cash-in-the-City-Emerging-Lessons-from-Implementing-Cash-Transfers-in-Urban-Africa
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35003
id okr-10986-35003
recordtype oai_dc
spelling okr-10986-350032021-04-23T14:02:14Z Cash in the City : Emerging Lessons from Implementing Cash Transfers in Urban Africa Gentilini, Ugo Khosla, Saksham Almenfi, Mohamed CASH TRANSFERS SOCIAL SAFETY NET SOCIAL PROTECTION SOCIAL ASSISTANCE URBAN POVERTY URBANIZATION INFORMALITY SERVICE DELIVERY Poverty and crises are rapidly “urbanizing†. Yet experience with operationalizing cash transfers in urban areas is limited. This paper captures early lessons from a new generation of urban cash transfer responses to Covid-19 in eleven African countries. The analysis contextualizes such initiatives within a longer-term trajectory of urban social protection programs from the early 2000s. A range of lessons emerge around design and implementation, partnerships, institutions and political economy, strategic issues, and evidence and learning. 2021-01-11T17:10:41Z 2021-01-11T17:10:41Z 2021-01 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/424421610013456565/Cash-in-the-City-Emerging-Lessons-from-Implementing-Cash-Transfers-in-Urban-Africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35003 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper Africa Sub-Saharan Africa
repository_type Digital Repository
institution_category Foreign Institution
institution Digital Repositories
building World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
collection World Bank
language English
topic CASH TRANSFERS
SOCIAL SAFETY NET
SOCIAL PROTECTION
SOCIAL ASSISTANCE
URBAN POVERTY
URBANIZATION
INFORMALITY
SERVICE DELIVERY
spellingShingle CASH TRANSFERS
SOCIAL SAFETY NET
SOCIAL PROTECTION
SOCIAL ASSISTANCE
URBAN POVERTY
URBANIZATION
INFORMALITY
SERVICE DELIVERY
Gentilini, Ugo
Khosla, Saksham
Almenfi, Mohamed
Cash in the City : Emerging Lessons from Implementing Cash Transfers in Urban Africa
geographic_facet Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa
description Poverty and crises are rapidly “urbanizing†. Yet experience with operationalizing cash transfers in urban areas is limited. This paper captures early lessons from a new generation of urban cash transfer responses to Covid-19 in eleven African countries. The analysis contextualizes such initiatives within a longer-term trajectory of urban social protection programs from the early 2000s. A range of lessons emerge around design and implementation, partnerships, institutions and political economy, strategic issues, and evidence and learning.
format Working Paper
author Gentilini, Ugo
Khosla, Saksham
Almenfi, Mohamed
author_facet Gentilini, Ugo
Khosla, Saksham
Almenfi, Mohamed
author_sort Gentilini, Ugo
title Cash in the City : Emerging Lessons from Implementing Cash Transfers in Urban Africa
title_short Cash in the City : Emerging Lessons from Implementing Cash Transfers in Urban Africa
title_full Cash in the City : Emerging Lessons from Implementing Cash Transfers in Urban Africa
title_fullStr Cash in the City : Emerging Lessons from Implementing Cash Transfers in Urban Africa
title_full_unstemmed Cash in the City : Emerging Lessons from Implementing Cash Transfers in Urban Africa
title_sort cash in the city : emerging lessons from implementing cash transfers in urban africa
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2021
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/424421610013456565/Cash-in-the-City-Emerging-Lessons-from-Implementing-Cash-Transfers-in-Urban-Africa
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35003
_version_ 1764482117312446464

Similar Items