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Co-responsibility transfer programmes and social protection

Co-responsibility transfer programmes (CTPs) seek to reduce poverty by combining a short-term objective (to increase the resources available for consumption to meet the basic needs of beneficiary families) with a long-term objective (to build human capital to prevent the intergenerational transmission of poverty) (Britto, 2006; Cecchini and Madariaga, 2010; Cohen and Franco, 2006a; León, 2008). Typically, CTPs achieve these objectives by three means: (i) cash transfers, to increase incomes; (ii) making transfers conditional upon the use of certain social services, to promote human capital accumulation; and (iii) focusing on poor and extremely poor households. They are intended to address the material and cognitive aspects associated with situations of poverty in holistic manner, recognizing the importance of combining non-contributory social protection with social promotion efforts (Levy and Rodríguez, 2005), in addition to implementing cross-sector interventions (Cohen, Franco and Villatoro, 2006).

Related Subject(s): Economic and Social Development
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