Conditional Cash Transfers for Young Women in Rural South Africa
Solution types
Financial Transfers
Problems addressed
Violence against women
Socioeconomic vulnerability
School dropout
Effectiveness

No Effect

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No Effect

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Life periods served
Teenagers (14 to 17 years)
Adults (18 to 59 years)
Where the program was applied
Community (streets or community centers)
Country of application
South Africa
Description

This is a cash transfer program conditional on adolescents staying in school. The aim is to reduce the incidence of HIV among girls and women aged between 13 and 20.
The intervention was implemented by the South African Medical Research Council and the University of the Witwatersrand’s Rural Public Health and Health Transition Research Unit.

Impact evaluations

An impact evaluation showed that the cash transfer guaranteed by the program did not reduce the incidence of HIV among the young women who benefited from it. However, staying in school significantly reduced the risk of acquiring HIV.
Other effects observed were that the women who received cash transfers were less likely to report physical violence between sexual partners, to have sexual partners, and to have unprotected sex [1].
The study had an experimental design with a sample of 2,537 young women from rural areas, of whom 1,225 were in the treatment group, and 1,223 were in the control group [1].

Bibliographic reference

[1] Pettifor, A., MacPhail, C., Hughes, J. P., Selin, A., Wang, J., Gómez-Olivé, F. X., Eshleman, S. H., Wagner, R. G., Mabuza, W., Khoza, N., Suchindran, C., Mokoena, I., Twine, R., Andrew, P., Townley, E., Laeyendecker, O., Agyei, Y., Tollman, S. y Kahn, K. (2016). The effect of a conditional cash transfer on HIV incidence in young women in rural South Africa (HPTN 068): a phase 3, randomised controlled trial. The Lancet Global Health, 4(12), e978-e988. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(16)30253-4

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