Informing decisions with disparate stakeholders: cross-sector evaluation of cash transfers in Malawi.

ABSTRACT: The Social Cash Transfer Programme (SCTP) in Malawi is a cross-sectoral policy with impacts on health, education, nutrition, agriculture and welfare. Implementation of the SCTP requires collaboration across sectors and across national and international stakeholders. Economic evaluation can inform investment by indicating whether benefits exceed costs, but economic evaluations that provide an overall benefit-cost ratio typically assume a common agreed objective and agreed set of value judgements. In reality, the various stakeholders involved in the delivery of the SCTP may have different remits and objectives and may differ in how they value the impacts of the programme. We use the SCTP as a case study to illustrate a cross-sectoral analytical framework that accounts for these differences.

SUBMITTER: Ramponi F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8757493 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature