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The role of social work in the delivery of conditional cash transfer programmes: lessons from Chile

In: Handbook on Social Protection and Social Development in the Global South

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  • Taly Reininger
  • Cristian Leyton

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Despite various iterations of Chile’s conditional cash transfer programme, its cash plus psychosocial support programme has remained an enduring feature of its design and delivery over the past two decades. This component of the programme is heralded as an important innovation due to its 24-month-long psychosocial component - one that has since been emulated in other countries in the region. Through periodic home visits, psychosocial professionals assist families in overcoming situations of exclusion in seven different dimensions: education, health, housing, income, employment, family dynamics and identification. The programme’s multidimensional focus aimed to end the intergenerational transmission of poverty in the long term. This chapter examines Chile’s cash plus programme through a critical lens, concluding with reflections on its potential to advance the human rights and dignity of participants, including the tensions in social work roles and the structural barriers that impede programme delivery.

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  • Taly Reininger & Cristian Leyton, 2023. "The role of social work in the delivery of conditional cash transfer programmes: lessons from Chile," Chapters, in: Handbook on Social Protection and Social Development in the Global South, chapter 19, pages 350-361, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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