Malawi COVID-19 Urban Cash Intervention Process Evaluation Report
This report presents the findings of a process evaluation for the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) urban cash intervention (CUCI) program. The CUCI was initiated by the Government of Malawi in 2020 to help mitigate the adverse health and economi...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2022
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099015001182234083/P1755530424770040ac6607fe89713bc01 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36906 |
| Summary: | This report presents the findings of
a process evaluation for the Coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19) urban cash intervention (CUCI) program. The CUCI
was initiated by the Government of Malawi in 2020 to help
mitigate the adverse health and economic effects of COVID-19
on urban poor populations in Lilongwe, Blantyre, Zomba, and
Mzuzu. CUCI is the first major cash transfer program in
Malawi to focus on urban areas. It therefore provides a
conducive and fertile learning ground for shaping future
policy and programming, both in terms of urban cash
transfers and shock-responsive interventions. The goal of
this process evaluation is to understand the quality of
implementation of CUCI at each stage of the delivery chain,
with a view to informing future policies and programs. The
study looks at what, how, and why CUCI activities were
implemented, what worked well, and what did not work well
along the nine stages of CUCI’s delivery chain. The
assessment also integrates the four building blocks of
adaptive social protection, i.e., programs; data and
information systems; finance; and institutional arrangements
and partnerships - across all stages of the delivery chain.
The process evaluation plans to draw lessons that can inform
medium- to long-term considerations regarding the design and
implementation of both urban safety nets and shock sensitive
social protection policies and programs. The section lays
out the context in which the CUCI was designed and
implemented. It does this through examining the impacts of
COVID-19 and social protection responses by governments -
firstly at a global and regional level, and then with regard
to Malawi. |
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