The Social Assistance in Developing Countries Database aims to: - provide a summary of the evidence available on the effectiveness of social assistance interventions in developing countries; - focus on programmes seeking to combine the reduction and mitigation of poverty, with strengthening and facilitating household investments capable of preventing poverty and securing development in the longer term - select programmes for inclusion in the database on the basis of the availability of information on design features, evaluation, size, scope, or significance; - provide summary information on each programme in a way that can be easily referenced by DFID staff and others with only a basic level of technical expertise. Version 5 updates information on existing programmes and incorporates information on the following programmes: -Conditional cash transfers pilots in Kenya, Zambia, and Malawi -Integrated poverty reduction programmes in Panama, and the Dominican Republic -Conditional cash transfer programmes in Paraguay -CHARS in Bangladesh combining climate change adaptation, asset protection and accumulation, and transfers -Basic Income Grant Pilot in Namibia which, although not strictly a social assistance programme, will be of interest to users of the Databas