Transfer Project (Phase four)

UNICEF Innocenti - Global Office of Research and Foresight, has applied for SEK 19,000,000 to implement the research programme ‘the Transfer Projects’ fourth phase, 2025-2027. Sida's management of the operation has been delegated to the Unit for Eastern Africa and the Horn of Africa from five embassies, these are Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The programme aims to enable policy makers to base policy decisions on policy and further development of the country's social protection system on evidence from solid research and experience. The research programme has four objectives, these are to: 1. Support national longitudinal mixed-methods studies of government-run cash-based programmes to understand design and implementation and examine their impacts, including on: a) Gender equality and women's empowerment b) Long-term impacts including adolescent transitions to adulthood c) Urban areas d) People with disability e) Resilience to shocks through cash transfers and shock-responsive cash-based programming. 2. Generate evidence on public finance for sustainable social protection . 3. Undertake country-level and cross-country analysis. 4. Facilitate mechanisms for learning and exchange among regional policymakers, implementers, researchers and civil society. Expected outputs include: baseline data, reports, peer-reviewed articles published in reputable journals, policy and research information, capacity building for African researchers, and presentations in workshops or at international conferences. It is Sida's assessment that the project proposal is relevant and justified.