Table 3: Examples of Predictable Regional Safety Nets Country Program Name Type of Program Launch Target Population(s) Objectives Pursued Year School Meal Services school meal program 2005 children between the ages of 6 and 16 attending combat hunger, improve childhood nutrition, and increase Burkina school in the Sahelian region school attendance Faso conditional financial transfers vs. pilot program 2008 households with children under the age of 15 improve access to education and health for vulnerable Burkina unconditional financial transfers households and orphans Faso Minimum Social Protection Program targeted pension 2006 people who are permanently or temporarily unable assist non-productive populations Cape to work Verde Livelihood Empowerment Against conditional financial 2008 farmers and fishermen, poor elderly people, improve access to health care and education to break the Ghana Poverty (LEAP) transfers orphans and vulnerable children, poor people, and transmission of poverty, help vulnerable pregnant or breastfeeding women affected by AIDS households manage risks, and assist little productive households Ghana Homegrown School Feeding school meal program 2005 children attending primary school combat hunger, improve childhood nutrition, and increase Ghana Program school attendance National Youth Employment vocational training, 2006 young people between the ages of 15 and 35 reduce unemployment among young people Ghana Program financial support In Care of the Poor (COPE) conditional financial 2008 isolated women, elderly parents, physically reduce poverty by targeting vulnerable households and Nigeria transfers diminished individuals, chronically poor providing them with incentives to improve access to health care households, households affected by AIDS services, education, and administrative registration Kano Conditional Cash Transfer conditional financial 2010 young girls attending schools in grades 5 and 6 in increase school enrollment and scholastic success among young Nigeria Program (pilot) transfers to young Kano State girls girls social financial transfers targeting unconditional 2009 children under the age of 5 living in vulnerable lessen food and nutritional insecurity among children under the Senegal children financial transfers zones age of 5 and build long-term human capital social financial transfers targeting conditional financial 2008 children between the ages of 2 and 18 directly or lower childhood vulnerability Senegal vulnerable children affected by AIDS transfers indirectly affected by AIDS, orphans Unconditional Cash Transfer for the unconditional 2007 elderly people unable to work and without incomes improve the nutrition of the small children in their care Sierra Old and Needy financial transfers Leone
Table 3: Examples of Predictable Regional Safety Nets Country Program Name Type of Program Launch Year Target Population(s) Objectives Pursued Burkina Faso School Meal Services school meal program 2005 children between the ages of 6 and 16 attending school in the Sahelian region combat hunger, improve childhood nutrition, and increase school attendance Burkina Faso conditional financial transfers vs. unconditional financial transfers pilot program 2008 households with children under the age of 15 improve access to education and health for vulnerable households and orphans Cape Verde Minimum Social Protection Program targeted pension 2006 people who are permanently or temporarily unable to work assist non-productive populations Ghana Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) conditional financial transfers 2008 farmers and fishermen, poor elderly people, orphans and vulnerable children, poor people, and pregnant or breastfeeding women affected by AIDS improve access to health care and education to break the transmission of poverty, help vulnerable households manage risks, and assist little productive households Ghana Ghana Homegrown School Feeding Program school meal program 2005 children attending primary school combat hunger, improve childhood nutrition, and increase school attendance Ghana National Youth Employment Program vocational training, financial support 2006 young people between the ages of 15 and 35 reduce unemployment among young people Nigeria In Care of the Poor (COPE) conditional financial transfers 2008 isolated women, elderly parents, physically diminished individuals, chronically poor households, households affected by AIDS reduce poverty by targeting vulnerable households and providing them with incentives to improve access to health care services, education, and administrative registration Nigeria Kano Conditional Cash Transfer Program (pilot) conditional financial transfers to young girls 2010 young girls attending schools in grades 5 and 6 in Kano State increase school enrollment and scholastic success among young girls Senegal social financial transfers targeting children unconditional financial transfers 2009 children under the age of 5 living in vulnerable zones lessen food and nutritional insecurity among children under the age of 5 and build long-term human capital Senegal social financial transfers targeting vulnerable children affected by AIDS conditional financial transfers 2008 children between the ages of 2 and 18 directly or indirectly affected by AIDS, orphans lower childhood vulnerability Sierra Leone Unconditional Cash Transfer for the Old and Needy unconditional financial transfers 2007 elderly people unable to work and without incomes improve the nutrition of the small children in their care
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