Conditional Cash Transfer Scheme Research Articles

Kanyashree Prakalpa –Prosperity Towards Right to Education for Women

The Kanyashree Prakalpa (KP), a Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) scheme is an innovative project to ensure the education for girl-students so that dropout rates are reduced, also works as prosperity towards right to education for women. It was introduced on 8th March, 2013 by the Department of Women Development and Social Welfare of West Bengal for incentivizing adolescent girls to complete secondary, higher secondary and higher education, or equivalent in technical or vocational streams and also to prevent child marriage till at least the age of 18. The effectiveness of this Prakalpa immediately appears just after the implementation of it across the state. This paper evaluates the impact of this Prakalpa on female enrollment in the college. It is found that KP not only minimizes the tendency of girl students to drop out from schools at early age, at the same time it increases female admission in the college. In this study, a comparative analysis has been drawn between prior 2013 and after 2013 to show the actual increasing enrollment of female students in Ramnagar college in Purba Medinipore district, West Bengal, India. This study is based on secondary data. The findings of this study suggest that this scheme protects & empowers the girls especially from socio-economically disadvantaged families, by giving incentives to them to continue education for a longer period of time, footing their participation and meaningful contribution to the society.

Challenges and Strategic Solutions to Guarantee Last Mile Reach for an Indian TB Patient's Nikshay Poshan Yojana; A Conditional Cash Transfer Scheme Comment on "Does Direct Benefit Transfer Improve Outcomes Among People With Tuberculosis? - A Mixed-Methods Study on the Need for a Review of the Cash Transfer Policy in India".

India has put efforts into the prevention and control of tuberculosis (TB) for more than 50 years. Nikshay Poshan Yojna (NPY) is one of the schemes of conditional cash transfers (CCTs) by the Government of India. The CCT schemes mostly address the demand side constraints. Governments could use this in developing nations as a tool to divert financial resources toward societal development. In India, NPY is more directed toward providing monetary support for a nutritional diet and reducing the catastrophic expenditure of TB patients. Several studies highlighted challenges in implementing cash transfer schemes and provided different operational models. A country like India should address the challenges with defined strategies to ensure its last-mile reach. A present commentary discussing challenges and possible solutions that policy-makers can adapt and set up a support structure to ensure that supportive actions are implemented in response to patient and system side issues.

Maternity support and child health: Unintended gendered effects

This paper evaluates a maternity support conditional cash transfer (CCT) scheme, launched in October 2011, on short and long-run health outcomes of children in India. We estimate intent-to-treat effects of the program by exploiting a natural experiment arising from select geographical implementation and the eligibility of program benefits for first/second born children using the National Family Health Survey-4 data. We find an increase in birth weight, duration of breastfeeding and long term weight-forage, with a larger impact on male children. The effects are positive for height-for-age and negative for infant mortality, albeit insignificant, and significantly negative for neonatal mortality but only over a longer time period. These results are in contrast to the existing two studies in the nascent literature, which in the context of limited availability of healthcare services, find no effect of maternity support CCTs on child health outcomes. Thus, our findings show that institutional factors that ensure access to local health infrastructure for meeting the imposed conditionalities are important for the success of maternal CCT schemes.

It Cost Us All of Our Savings to Deliver Our Baby: A Qualitative Study to Explore Barriers and Facilitators of Maternal and Child Health Service Access and Utilization in a Remote Rural Region in India During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, rural and geographically isolated regions in lower-middle-income countries (LMICs) encountered major deficits in maternal and child health (MCH) care that were accentuated by pre-existing weak public health infrastructure and diversion of existing health resources for pandemic management purposes. Thisexplorative qualitative study was conducted to assess the barriers, challenges, and facilitators in the access and utilization of essential MCH services among pregnant women during the COVID-19 pandemic in a geographically remote and rural area in India, having nearly 70% rural population. The study was conducted using an ethnographic approach. Three villages were selected purposively from the Purba Medinipur district of the Eastern state of West Bengal, geographically isolated by a local river. Information on challenges of utilization was collected by in-depth interviews (IDI) with a universal sample of 25 mothers who underwent pregnancy after March 2020 and focus group discussions (FGD) with their husbands and mothers-in-laws. Thematic analysis was used to analyze the qualitative data. The median (IQR) age of the mothers that delivered during pregnancy were 23 (18, 28) years and ranging from 18 to 28 years (N=25). All the mothers were married, housewives, literate, and Hindu by religion, while in the accompanying husband cohort, a majority (56 %) had completed high school. Half (52%)were primigravida with at least one living child (60 %). All the mothers had a successful birth outcome and only one had current evidence of mild depression. Low utilization of MCH services during the pandemic in the study area was recognized as an outcome of individual-level, interpersonal-level, and community-level barriers. Diversion of routine health staff for COVID-19 related services occasionally compelled pregnant women and children to seek care from unlicensed healthcare providers who remained accessible even during periods of stringent lockdown. Furthermore, the irregular functioning of the local primary health care system translated into missed home visits and disruption of nutritional assistance services. A dual burden of economic loss was reported in most households from loss of livelihood and wages and additional expenditure incurred in underdoing deliveries at private health facilities, thereby potentially translating into catastrophic out-of-pocket costs. The designation of a separate government health facility for delivery due to the unavailability of the local hospital did not mitigate the circumstances due to its lack of utilization by the villagers who encountered difficult access and a lack of trust in an unfamiliar environment. The functioning of a popular conditional cash transfer scheme for promoting safe motherhood was also possibly compromised during the pandemic. Accessibility to MCH services was severely affected during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially during the stringent lockdown periods in remote and rural areas in India. Future pandemic preparedness must have enhanced health policy and administrative focus on preventing significant disruption of MCH services by maintaining improved accessibility to alternative health facilities, monitoring regular home visits by frontline health workers, rendering effective distribution of benefits from existing social protection schemes, and universal promotion of respectful maternity care.

Kanyashree Prakalpa: A Key to Strengthen Girls’ Education and Drive Women Empowerment

Background: Kanyashree Prakalpa is a scheme of Govt. Of West Bengal. It is a Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) scheme for girls students between the age of 13-18 years and those ages 18 and above and unmarried, who is enrolled in higher education. This scheme started in the year 2013, on 8th March, and its effect started on 1st October 2013. Purpose: Kanyashree Prakalpa is one of the best schemes of Govt of West Bengal. The main purpose of this investigation is, to find out the attitudes of girl’s students toward Kanyashree Prakalpa and the impact of this scheme. Methods: In this investigation, investigators used the area sampling method. To investigate the attitudes of girls students towards Kanyashree Prakalp, the investigators used a Mixed Method research method/design. For the collection of Quantitative data investigators used a survey method and for the collection of qualitative data investigators used an interview technique. Findings: For analyzing quantitative data investigators formulated three hypotheses. To analyze these hypotheses investigators used two different statistics, namely- t-test and ANOVA. All the hypotheses were not rejected, and qualitative analysis showed girls’ students’ attitudes towards Kanyashree Prakalpa are very positive.

Sanitation policy in India – designed to fail?

After three decades of disappointing experience with sanitation promotion, the Indian government launched the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) in 2014, with great fanfare and optimism. Yet SBM failed to live up to the expectations. This article argues that the dull outcomes are the result of design flaws in the program. The study finds that the goals of SBM are poorly chosen, with private sanitation services being prioritized over those which create public value in Indian context. Furthermore, SBM emphasizes financial and information tools while overlooking the regulatory and organizational tools and their synergies, which makes it nothing more than a poorly designed conditional cash transfer scheme. The design approach employed in the article not only opens the black box of sanitation policy tools but also generates valuable recommendations to guide sanitation policy in developing countries.

Education, Sexuality, and Marriageability: Overlapping Tropes in the Lives of Adolescent Girls in Haryana, India

PurposeGirls’ education is a critical pathway to delay early marriage. We examine the symbolic and apparent value of girls’ education as a transitional moment to their marriage and a de facto space to control their sexuality. MethodsThis paper draws on qualitative analysis from an impact evaluation of a Conditional Cash Transfer scheme, Apni Beti Apna Dhan (implemented between 1994-1998), designed to enhance girls’ value and delay early marriage, in Haryana, India. The research was conducted in 2010–2015, using a quasi-experimental study design, with about 10,000 beneficiary and eligible nonbeneficiary girls, 18 years after the first set of beneficiaries enrolled in the Conditional Cash Transfer could encash the benefit, if they had remained unmarried. The qualitative analysis covered 124 girls and their mothers, to understand the gendered context of their lives and aspirations around education and marriage. The study was conducted by team of researchers from International Center for Research on Women, including the authors. ResultsEducation is considered key to enhance girls' prospects for marriage. The intrinsic benefits of education may enable some girls to chart better life trajectories, though its value is largely understood within a bounded space of girls’ marriageability. The persistent focus on marriage, structures girls' daily school routines bounded by strict restrictions and scrutiny around their mobility, sexuality, and conduct. ConclusionsThe potential for girls to explore new freedoms and opportunities through education is curtailed by unyielding gendered restrictions and rigid social hierarchies. A nuanced understanding of educations and its role in girls’ marriage is key to reshaping educational programs for girls’ empowerment.

Design of Long‐Term Conditional Cash Transfer Program to Encourage Healthy Habits

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are among the largest health emergencies nowadays. Although a large proportion of NCDs can be prevented effectively via good life habits, these remain ubiquitous and one main reason is people's self‐control problem caused by time‐inconsistent, present‐biased preferences. In this situation, we wonder whether a “long‐term” conditional cash transfer (CCT) program, which is known to be effective in shaping people's behaviors but expensive, can be a viable solution. We establish a model which can be fine‐tuned by many parameters, and show that our results are robust in a wide range of parameters. We identify the optimal CCT scheme which helps people achieve their long‐term plan while generating the lowest cash flow. Our results suggest interesting managerial insights like that the amount of necessary financial incentives can depend on people's age, and that the government's optimal CCT scheme does not depend on the level of people's naivete. Also, it is profitable for companies to hold such a program and sell enrollment to customers as self‐commitment devices. However, companies may exploit customers’ naivete to maximize their profit while hurting social welfare. We also examine situations that people's behaviors can only be monitored indirectly through inaccurate signals and that people are heterogeneous in how present‐biased they are.

Time to end daughter aversion in India

Time to end daughter aversion in India

Evaluating the impact of the Bolsa Familia conditional cash transfer program on premature cardiovascular and all-cause mortality using the 100 million Brazilian cohort: a natural experiment study protocol

IntroductionBrazil’s Bolsa Familia Program (BFP) is the world’s largest conditional cash transfer scheme. We shall use a large cohort of applicants for different social programmes to evaluate the effect of...

Assessment of role perception and job performance of ASHAs in Vijyapaura district, Karnataka

Introduction: ASHAs play an important role in the rollout of government health programmes such as the Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY), a conditional cash transfer scheme to incentivise women to give birth in a health facility. The ASHAs work closely with other frontline workers like Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANMs) and Anganawadi Workers (AWWs) to conduct community-level activities. ASHAs also act as health activists in the community who will create awareness on health and its determinants, counsel mothers on key healthy behaviours and mobilise the community towards local health planning and increased utilisation and accountability of the existing health services. Objectives: To evaluate the Role perception and Job Performance of ASHAs. Materials and Methods: A cross sectional study was done on 617 ASHAs. A pre-designed, semi- structured schedule was prepared in accordance with the study objectives. The questionnaire was prepared in English and the interview was conducted in Kannada language by explaining them questions one by one. Data collection was done by interview technique. Results: 603 (97.7%) of ASHAs had positive attitude towards mobilising the community for accessing health services such as ANC, 602 (97.5%) for ANC, 599(97.08%) for institutional delivery, 597 (96.7%) for birth preparedness, 601(97.4%) for new born care, 600(97.2%) towards exclusive breast feeding. 405 (65.6%) ASHAs told that they are actively involved in distributing Iron and Folic acid tablets to pregnant women. 597 (96.7%) ASHAs informed that they educate mothers about exclusive breast feeding, while 471(76.3%) told that they encourage mothers to continue breast feeding when the child is suffering from diarrhoea. It was found that job performance of ASHAs was significantly associated with Age, Days of Training and Duration of service of ASHAs. Conclusion: In order to orient the ASHAs on their job profile and responsibility, there is a need to assess the knowledge and skills of Accredited Soc

Out-of-pocket expenditure for delivery at home and public health facilities in the context of conditional cash transfer and free delivery care programs: An analytical cross-sectional study in South 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, India, 2017

BackgroundThe Indian government provides for free/subsidized services in public hospitals and conditional cash transfer (CCT) schemes for delivery care. Our objectives were to estimate the proportion of women reporting out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE) for delivery care at home and public hospitals, magnitude of components of OOPE for public hospitals by wealth status, and to determine the factors associated with OOPE for delivery care at home and public hospitals in South 24 Parganas district. MethodsWe did a community based cross-sectional analytical study among women who delivered between November 2016 to March 2017. We calculated median (Inter-Quartile Range) direct and indirect expenditures. We did multiple logistic regression to calculate odds ratios (95% confidence interval). ResultsAll women reported OOPE for delivery care. Median OOPE was INR 865 (IQR: 520,1700) at public hospital and INR 1700 (IQR: 550,2300) at home. Among public hospital deliveries, majority of OOPE was due to indirect expenditure, 35.8% due to wage loss. Poorest women had the highest median gross OOPE. The middle-income group had the highest median percentage of reduction in OOPE for home delivery after receiving government subsidy. OOPE was most likely for a male child (OR 4.8, 95% CI 1.1–2.0) for home delivery and for caesarian section (OR 56.8, 95% CI 13.6–237) among the public hospital deliveries. ConclusionsWomen incurred OOPE for delivery care at home and public hospitals despite free/subsidized care. Augmenting the package of delivery-related CCT schemes and increase in universal health insurance coverage for economically poor households can reduce the financial burden of delivery care in the district.

Investigating the empirical relationship between government intervention programs and poverty alleviation: a case of Nigeria

PurposeAlthough the literature has shown that government intervention programs on poverty alleviation have now become a common practice and accepted policy framework in tackling the menace of poverty which has remained the major challenge to all leaders around the globe. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of (conditional cash transfer, youth empowerment and microcredit scheme) on poverty alleviation in Niger state-Nigeria.Design/methodology/approachThe hypotheses of the study were tested using personally administered questionnaires survey method; 442 valid and useable questionnaires were obtained for the study, while PLS-SEM path modeling was adopted to evaluate the statistical relationship between those three programs and poverty alleviation. According to the statistical result of the study, the research constructs have a satisfactory convergent and discriminant validity. Therefore the study has established a strong positive relationship between government intervention programs and poverty alleviation. The socioeconomic assessment of the respondents further justified the above assumption.FindingsAlso, the research findings of this study may found to be beneficial to the government, international organization, researchers particularly those who are conducting research on poverty reduction programs.Research limitations/implicationsThe study used the perceptions of the beneficiaries of those programs in nine selected local government areas within the three senatorial districts in Niger state-Nigeria.Originality/valueSimilarly, the findings of the study would offer some meaningful contribution to the body of knowledge on studies related to poverty alleviation programs like conditional cash transfer, youth empowerment and microcredit scheme, where expert in that field would explore the advantage of these findings by utilizing the impacts of those programs on the beneficiaries for policy framework.

ACHIEVING MATERNAL HEALTH THROUGH JANANI SURAKSHA YOJANA UNDER NRHM:A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFER SCHEME IN PUNJAB, NORTH INDIA

21May 2020 ACHIEVING MATERNAL HEALTH THROUGH JANANI SURAKSHA YOJANA UNDER NRHM:A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFER SCHEME IN PUNJAB, NORTH INDIA Vijayetta Sharma and Pawan K. Kamra Research Scholar, Department of Public Administration, Panjab University, Chandigarh and Academic Associate, Indian School of Business, Mohali, India. Professor (Retd.), Department of Public Administration, USOL, Panjab University, Chandigarh.

Impact of the conditional cash transfer program’ on the monthly food expenditure of household beneficiaries

Philippines is among the many countries which has a perennial problem on poverty. The country has made various ways to reduce its poverty rate; one is through conditional cash transfer (CCT) scheme. This study measured the impact of CCT Program, particularly on food consumption among its household beneficiaries using Propensity Score Matching (PSM). Impact is measured in terms of the Average Treatment Effect on the Treated (ATT) using four matching algorithms: Nearest Neighbor Matching, Caliper (Radius) Matching, Kernel Matching, and Local Linear Regression matching. Binary logistic regression was used to identify covariates influencing program participation which include having children who are 6-12 years old, education of the household heads’ spouses, marital status and sex of the household head, housing tenure, and ownership of household assets. Balance test indicates nonsignificant difference between 4Ps and non-4Ps beneficiaries across these covariates. Of the four matching algorithms, the Caliper (radius) matching generated ATT estimate with the least standard error. On the average, using the Caliper matching method, the monthly food expenditure of the household beneficiaries have significantly increased by PHP501.39, Thus, the CCT program of the government has brought significant improvement on the household beneficiaries, not only on education, health, and nutrition but also on their monthly food expenditure. It is recommended that the implementation of the CCT program should be strengthened, sustained, and maintained properly and orderly to gradually alleviate the current poverty conditions in the identified poor barangays around the nation. Moreover, the implementing agencies should consistently monitor the proper and synchronized implementation of the program in order to wholly purge the intergenerational transmission of poverty which is a perennial experience of the households who belong to the poorest populace in the country.

Evaluating a Conditional Cash Transfer Scheme in a Maternal Health Care Utilization Program Among Rural Pregnant Women in Mysore District, India.

Background: According to the World Bank report in 2015, the maternal death rate in India was 174 per 100,000, which is among the highest in the world. The Indian Government launched the Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) conditional cash transfer program in 2005 to curb the adverse birth outcomes by promoting institutional delivery and providing antenatal care (ANC) services for pregnant women. This study evaluates the factors associated with JSY conditional cash transfer program in rural Mysore, India.Methods: Between 2011 and 2014, a prospective cohort study was conducted to examine the feasibility and acceptability of integrated ANC and HIV testing using mobile clinics in rural Mysore. Pregnant women in the Mysore Taluk provided an informed consent and answered an interviewer-administered questionnaire in local language, Kannada. All women underwent routine ANC services and were followed-up immediately after delivery, and 6 months and 12 months after delivery. Binary logistic regression was performed to identify factors associated with JSY benefits.Results: The mean age of the 1,806 mothers was 21.2 ± 2.2 years and 58.9% of the mothers had primary education. Nearly half (51.6%) of the women reported having received JSY benefits. Factors associated with receiving JSY benefits included pregnant woman's partner not having any formal education (adjusted odds ratio [AOR]: 1.35; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.01–1.80), having income ≤4,000 Indian Rupees (AOR: 1.47; 95% CI: 1.04–2.09), rare visits (once in 3 months visit) with Accredited Social Health Activists (AOR: 3.55; 95% CI: 1.55–8.51), and delivery in a public institution (AOR: 1.23; 95% CI: 1.01–1.51).Conclusions: While JSY has been operational in India since 2005, there continue to remain major gaps in the receipt of JSY services in rural India. Future interventions should include targeted services and expansion of JSY scheme, specifically among rural pregnant women, who are most at need of these services.

Evaluation of knowledge and practice of ASHAs, regarding child health services in Vijyapaura District, Karnataka.

Background and Aims:NHM has created a cadre of trained female community health activists called Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) to mobilize the community toward increased utilization of existing health services. ASHAs play an important role in the rollout of government health programs such as the Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY), a conditional cash transfer scheme to incentivize women to give birth in a health facility. The ASHAs work closely with other frontline workers like Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANMs) and Anganawadi Workers (AWWs) to conduct community-level activities.Method:A cross-sectional study was conducted in 11 months. A pre-designed, semi- structured questionnaire was prepared in accordance with the study objectives. The questionnaire was prepared in English and the interview was conducted in Kannada language by explaining them questions one by one. Data collection was done by interview technique.Results:Out of 617 ASHAs interviewed, 580 (94%) ASHAs had proper knowledge about exclusive breast feeding and the duration, 560 (90.7%) told colostrum was necessary to the baby. Only 323 (52.3%) ASHAs had correct knowledge regarding schedule of immunization. 580 (94%) ASHAs could tell when the weaning should be started correctly and 611 (99%) ASHAs knew about ORS packets and the steps that went in preparing it.Conclusion:Generally, knowledge of ASHAs about care of new-born and child health care was considerably good. However, knowledge of ASHAs about the immunization schedule was found to be inadequate.

Assessing the operational effectiveness of a maternal and child health (MCH) conditional cash transfer pilot programme in Nigeria

BackgroundThis paper provides insights into design and implementation of a Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) pilot programme under the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme on Maternal and Child Health (SURE-P MCH) in Nigeria. The CCT day to day operations were independently assessed, from design to enrollment and pay out, in order to inform future CCT designs and implementation.MethodsThis study combined a desk review of SURE-P MCH CCT operational documents and retrospective, descriptive cross-sectional survey of 314 primary beneficiaries of the CCT scheme from 29 SURE-P MCH CCT designated health facilities between June – July 2015. The programme implementation manual (PIM) and several CCT monthly reports and articles obtained from the project implementation unit (PIU) were reviewed while structured questionnaire of (16) questions was used for face-to-face interviews with (30–33) CCT beneficiaries drawn from each of eight (8) participating states of Anambra, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Ebonyi, Kaduna, Niger, Ogun, and Zamfara and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)-Abuja. Findings were analyzed and reported using R* statistical package (version 3.1.2). Subsequently a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis was conducted to identify key challenges and possible recommendations.ResultsThe SWOT analysis indicated a robust design for the CCT programme, which would have enhanced operational effectiveness if implemented as designed. However, the programme faced several implementation challenges. For instance, though 65% of beneficiaries perceived CCT pay-out events to be orderly and well-organized, in some of the pilot states the events were marred with inconsistencies resulting in large crowds and increased waiting time for some beneficiaries. Similarly, only 40% of beneficiaries received the complete N5,000 (USD30) cash incentive, 28% received N1,000 (USD6) while others received either N2000 (USD12), N3000 (USD18) or N4000 (USD24).ConclusionThe CCT pilot had a robust design as a result of a successful proof of concept which preceded the pilot roll-out. However, its implementation was marred with several challenges ranging from untimely release of funds, limited monitoring and evaluation and other operational challenges. Future CCT programmes should understudy the SWOT analysis presented in this paper to improve the design and implementation of CCT programmes in Nigeria and other settings.

Relevance of conditional cash transfers for the implementation of sustainable development goals in developing countries

Conditional cash transfer schemes were identified as one of the major driving forces behind poverty reduction in most developing countries during the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals and the subsequent Sustainable Development Goals . However, relevance of conditionality obligations of beneficiaries and service providers to sustain the conditional cash transfer schemes and make them relevant to the Sustainable Development Goals appeared to have encountered a number of challenges. This paper examined the circumstances under which beneficiaries and service providers fulfilled their conditionality obligations in conditional cash transfer schemes and its relevance to the Sustainable Development Goals implementation in developing countries. A systematic review technique was employed to analyse 60 articles. It was found that, improved health care, improved educational level, increased consumption level, poverty reduction, and among others are relevant to the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals . Policy dilemma, time frame dilemma, infrastructural capacity and poor macroeconomic policies were some of the constraints in conditional cash transfers to be addressed to secure better implementation of Sustainable Development Goals . It is therefore suggested that expansionary and contractionary policies be instituted to control macroeconomic indicators where necessary, more infrastructure should be provided and timelines of cash transfers should be monitored in order to make the intervention more relevant in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals . Keywords: Relevance, Conditionalities, Cash Transfers, Sustainable Development Goals , Developing Countries

Assessment Of Conditional Cash Transfer Scheme And Poverty Alleviation Among Rural Poor In Cross River State, Nigeria

This study examines the impact of conditional cash transfer scheme on poverty alleviation in the rural communities of Cross River State, Nigeria. The ex-post facto research design was adopted and three hypotheses were formulated in this study. The instrument for data collection was a thirty (30) item structured questionnaire and Focus Group Discussion. The population of the study comprises 2940 beneficiaries of the conditional cash transfer in the eighteen local government areas of the state, from 2010 to 2017. Cluster and simple random sampling techniques were used to select 1176 respondents. The hypotheses were analysed using Pearson product moment correlation. The findings revealed that conditional cash transfer scheme have significant relationship with poverty alleviation in terms of increase school enrolment and had tremendously helped in improving health services utilisation as most of the beneficiaries of this programme were able to access health facilities better than before the scheme. This intervention has equally helped beneficiaries to acquire requisite entrepreneurial skills that helped them to transform their lives and standard of living. On the basis of these findings it is recommended that the government should increase the number of household beneficiaries for wider coverage and spread as well as establish more health facilities in the rural areas. More so, the government should increase the number of people enlisted for entrepreneurial training and skills acquisition. (Word Count 222)