Sixth Transfer Project Research Workshop: The State of Evidence on Social Cash Transfers in Africa and Beyond June 7-9th

Sixth Transfer Project Research Workshop: The State of Evidence on Social Cash Transfers in Africa and Beyond

June 7-9^th 2017

Dakar, Senegal: King Fahd Hotel
Day 1 (Wednesday, June 7^th)

Time	Session description	Plenary	Simultaneous session (limited to 30 participants)
7:45-9:00	Registration
9:00-9:45	Session 1: Welcome and setting the scene The opening session will welcome participants, introduce the Transfer Project’s current state of affairs (partners, objectives, geographic scope, value added) and deliver the objectives of the workshop. Chair: Gustave Nebie, UNICEF WCARO	Welcome statements: Government of Senegal/ Coumba Sow, FAO Coordinator Sub-regional Resilience team for West Africa and Sahel/ UNICEF Regional Representative (20 min) Security briefing: UNICEF Regional Office or UNICEF Senegal (5 min) Overview/objectives of the workshop: Benjamin Davis, FAO Strategic Programme Leader, Reducing Rural Poverty/ UNICEF/ Ashu Handa, UNC (20 min)
9:45 – 10:15	Session 2: Who wants to be a millionaire icebreaker Moderator: Tayllor Spadafora & Francophone Speaker (TBD)	Participants: Everyone (teams organized by table)
10:15 – 10:45	Tea break
10:45-12:15	Session 3: Book launch / Mythbusters Chair: Fabio Veras, International Centre for Inclusive Growth	Panelists: Ashu Handa, UNC; Benjamin Davis, FAO; Natalia Winder Rossi, FAO; Jennifer Yablonski, UNICEF Question & Answer: 30 min
12:15-13:15	Lunch
13:15-15:00	Session 4a: Productive impacts, livelihoods and resiliency Chair: Coumba Sow, FAO REOWA	Evaluation of Senegal’s Programme National des Bourses de Sécurité Familiale (PNBSF) Marie Thoreux, IRAM (15 min) Integrating Simulation and Experimental Approaches to Evaluate Impacts of SCTs: Evidence from Lesotho, Benjamin Davis (15 min) Unconditional cash transfer and household resilience: Results from the Malawi Cash Transfer Program. Frank Otchere, UNC (15 min) Group discussion (45 min)	Session 4b: TBD
15:00-15:30	Tea break
15:30-16:45	Session 5a: Cash plus – system linkages presentations + INTERACTIVE roundtable Facilitator: Alejandro Grinspun, FAO	Cash Plus Overview [Tia Palermo, UNICEF Innocenti; Jennifer Yablonski, UNICEF; Fabio Veras, International Centre for Inclusive Growth] (15 min) Strengthening Coherence between Agricultural Production and Social Protection in Malawi. Justin Kagin, Kagin's Consulting (15 min) Talk show format with on-going (Ethiopia) and proposed plans (Mozambique, Tanzania, Indonesia, Zimbabwe) (30 min) Group discussion (15 min)	Session 5b: TBD
16:45 – 17: 30	Session 6: Poster Session	All new countries (and any other region/ country with on-going work that wishes to do so) to present a poster on current social protection/ cash transfer programme(s) and related research areas
17:30-19:00	Cocktail

Day 2 (Thursday, June 8^th)

Time	Session description	Plenary	Simultaneous session
9:00-9:10	RECAP of Day 1: Themes and Lessons Learned Moses Chibole, FAO Zambia and Ervin Prifti, FAO HQ
9:10-10:30	Session 7a: Health, food security and nutrition Chair: Fidelia Dake, Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health (D4H) Initiative and Transfer Project Fellow	The impact of unconditional cash transfer on health status and health-seeking behaviour in Africa. Jacob Novignon, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and Transfer Project Fellow (15 min) Impact of cash transfer programs on food security and nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa: a cross-country analysis. Silvio Daidone, FAO (15 min) Impacts of cash transfers on child health and nutrition: Case study of Mali’s Jigisemejiri program. Melissa Hidrobo, IFPRI (15 min) Group discussion (20 min)	Session 7b: TBD
10:30 – 11:00	Tea break
11:00 – 12:30	Session 8a: Children’s education, labour and productive activities Chair: Ms. Emma Malawo, Director of Planning, Ministry of Agriculture (Government of Zambia)	Cash transfers, family structure and human capital accumulation in Southern Africa: Experimental evidence from Lesotho, Malawi, and Zambia. Ramaele Moshoeshoe, National University of Lesotho and Transfer Project Fellow (15 min) In-depth findings on child labour in Malawi. Jacob de Hoop, UNICEF Innocenti (15 min) Gender differences in child investment behaviour among agricultural households. Evidence from the Lesotho Child Grants Programme. Ana Paula De la O Campos and Silvio Daidone, FAO (15 min) Buzz groups (15 min) and discussion (20 min)	Session 8b: TBD
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch
13:30-15:00	Session 9a: New thinking on social cash transfers and poverty: Urban populations and the limits of PMTs Chair: Paul Quarles van Ufford, UNICEF Tanzania	Targeting households and individuals in Africa: evidence on PMTs and exclusion errors. Dominique van de Walle, World Bank (15 min) Quantitative Livelihood Profile Analysis of Rural Households in Zambia. Mitelo Subakanya, IAPRI (15 min) New hybrid approaches to targeting: Experiences in Zambia. Daniel Kumitz, UNICEF Zambia and Kennedy Mumba, Chief of Social Welfare. (15 min) Social Protection and Urban Settings. Jose Cuesta, UNICEF Innocenti and Tayllor Spadafora, UNICEF Ghana (15 min) Group discussion (25 min)	Session 9b: TBD
15:00-15:30	Tea break
15:30-16:45	Session 10a: Emerging work in fragile contexts [Roundtable format; 2 slides each presenter] Chair: Jennifer Yablonski, UNICEF	(Title TBC): Gaby Guerrero, UNICEF Madagascar (5 min) UNICEF DRC cash transfer study (AIR, qualitative component): David Seidenfeld, AIR (5 min) CASH+ REOWA- FAO: CASH+ in the Sahel: challenges in evaluating cash+ in fragile contexts: Giulio Franco, Rama Leclerc, FAO REOWA (5 min) Moderated panel discussion (30 min) Question & answer (35 min)	Session 10b: TBD
16:45-17:30	Session 11: Small group discussion on topics arising	Participants: Everyone (discussion within tables)
19:00-21:00	Special extra-curricular session

Day 3 (Friday, June 9^th)

Time	Session description	Plenary
9:00-9:10	RECAP of Day 2: Themes and Lessons Learned Mariana Stirbu, UNICEF Senegal
9:10-10:40	Session 12: Innovative work and unpacking pathways Chair: [Govt TBD]	Cash versus in-kind and electronic payments in Niger. Jenny Aker, Tufts University (15 min) Poverty, mental health and intimate partner violence. Jeremy Shapiro, Busara Center for Behavioral Economics (15 min) Unconditional Cash Transfer Program and Child multidimensional poverty: Evidence from Malawi. Idrissa Ouili, University of Ouagadougou and Transfer Project Fellow (15 min) New ideas on decision-making under poverty and scarcity, Ashu Handa (15 min) Group discussion (30 min)
10:40-11:10	Tea break
11:10-12:10	Session 13: Donors & Government panel: Takeaways from the workshop and priority research questions going forward Chair: Ashu Handa, UNC	Sida, Senegal government, Mali government, Tanzania government, Lesotho government [TBA] (30 min) Discussion (30 min)
12:10 -13:00	Session 14: Closing and next steps The final session will encourage a reflection on what has been accomplished so far within the Transfer Project, a summary of the workshop and what is the next frontier of research. Audience members will be engaged to share concluding thoughts and way forward	Awards Ceremony Ashu Handa, UNC Benjamin Davis, FAO Jennifer Yablonski, UNICEF Natalia Winder-Rossi, FAO
13:00-14:00	Lunch and depart

*Day 3, 14:00-17:00 Transfer Project Retreat