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Transfer Project workshop 2019

A 3-day gathering of social protection experts and stakeholders to promote cross-country learning on cash transfers
(Past event)

Event type: Workshop

Related research: Social protection and cash transfers

events2 - 4 April 2019
point map Mount Meru Hotel, Tanzania, united republic of Arusha

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Participants at the 7th Transfer Project Workshop held April 2019 in Arusha, Tanzania. © Michelle Mills.

The Transfer Project Workshop was held in Arusha (Tanzania) from 2-4 April 2019, bringing together over 130 participants, including researchers, policy-makers, academics and development partners, from 20 different countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Over three days, participants discussed the latest evidence and shared their experiences of social protection research generation and policy-making. 

Now in its seventh iteration, the Transfer Project workshop has grown from 39 participants in 2010, to over 130 participants in 2019. It is increasingly seen as an important forum where governments exchange and learn about the use of evaluations and evidence produced by UNICEF Innocenti and partners in decision-making processes across the region. 

The Transfer Project is a collaboration between UNICEF, FAOUNC Chapel Hill, as well as national governments and local research partners. For over a decade, this multi-organisational research initiative has been producing evidence on the impacts of cash transfers in sub-Saharan Africa, going beyond measuring typical economic outcomes, to find out if and how cash impacts other aspects of people’s lives. 


Experts

Luisa Natali
Researcher

UNICEF Innocenti

Amber Peterman
Researcher

UNICEF Innocenti

Jacobus de Hoop

UNICEF Innocenti

Frank Otchere

UNICEF Innocenti

Lusajo Kajula

UNICEF Innocenti

Natalia Winder Rossi
Director, Social Policy and Social Protection, UNICEF

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Podcast

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Social protection and cash transfers

A multi-country research and learning initiative to provide rigorous evidence on the impact of large-scale national cash transfer programmes.