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Egypt's Takaful and Karama cash transfer program: Evaluation of program impacts and recommendations

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  • Breisinger, Clemens
  • ElDidi, Hagar
  • El-Enbaby, Hoda
  • Gilligan, Daniel
  • Karachiwalla, Naureen
  • Kassim, Yumna
  • Kurdi, Sikandra
  • Jilani, Amir Hamza
  • Thai, Giang

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Egypt has been providing cash to poor households through its first conditional cash transfer program, Takaful and Karama, a social protection program run by the Ministry of Social Solidarity (MoSS), since March 2015. Takaful (“Solidarity†) supports poor families with children under 18, while Karama (“Dignity†) supports the elderly poor and people living with disabilities. The cash transfer program has enrolled 2.25 million families across all of Egypt’s governorates. The amount of the Takaful cash transfer provided to households depends on the number of children and their school level. The Karama program provides a set amount per individual. In order to reach the poorest households, participants are selected using a proxy means test. In the Takaful program, 89 percent of recipients are women, while only 11 percent are men. Beginning in 2018, Takaful will also begin implementing conditionalities, requiring households in the program to ensure their children attend school and participate in health screenings, added to antenatal care for pregnant women and post-natal care. The Takaful and Karama program was evaluated by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) using both quantitative statistical methods (simple questions asked to many households during a survey) and qualitative methods (more in-depth questions asked to fewer households in longer interviews). The evaluation was designed to measure and explain the impacts of the cash transfers on household welfare, and to examine whether the program’s criteria for household selection were effective in identifying poor households. This brief, which focuses on the Takaful component of the program, summarizes the main findings from the evaluation and key recommendations.

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  • Breisinger, Clemens & ElDidi, Hagar & El-Enbaby, Hoda & Gilligan, Daniel & Karachiwalla, Naureen & Kassim, Yumna & Kurdi, Sikandra & Jilani, Amir Hamza & Thai, Giang, 2018. "Egypt's Takaful and Karama cash transfer program: Evaluation of program impacts and recommendations," Policy briefs 978-089629-596-4, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
  • Handle: RePEc:fpr:polbrf:9780896295964
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    1. Auktor, Georgeta Vidican & Loewe, Markus, 2021. "Subsidy reforms in the Middle East and North Africa: Strategic options and their consequences for the social contract," IDOS Discussion Papers 12/2021, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS).
    2. Helmy, Imane & Ghoneim, Hebatallah & Siddig, Khalid, 2019. "Implementing Cash Transfer Programmes in Egypt Differently: An Economic Impact Analysis," Conference papers 333055, Purdue University, Center for Global Trade Analysis, Global Trade Analysis Project.
    3. Carolina Bloch & Charlotte Bilo & Imane Helmy & Rafael Guerreiro Osorio & Fábio Veras Soares, 2019. "Fiscal space for child-sensitive social protection in the MENA region," Research Report 36, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth.
    4. Breisinger, Clemens & Mukashov, Askar & Raouf, Mariam & Wiebelt, Manfred, 2019. "Energy subsidy reform for growth and equity in Egypt: The approach matters," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 129(C), pages 661-671.

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    Keywords

    EGYPT; ARAB COUNTRIES; MIDDLE EAST; NORTH AFRICA; AFRICA; resilience; poverty; nutrition; agricultural policies; nutrition policies; social protection; conditional cash transfer;
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