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Food Ministry suggests cash transfer of food subsidy on pilot basis – March 5, 2015 – The Economic Times Ghana: Leap 1000 Launched in Tamale – March 5, 2015 – All Africa – LEAP 1000, an extension of the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) program, which provides cash transfers to poor households with pregnant women […]

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Africa: World Bank Helps Senegal Strengthen Social Safety Nets – AllAfrica – February 19, 2015 – Government of Senegal launched a 40.5 million dollar International Development Association credit to help Senegal establish the building blocks for a national social safety net system and provide targeted cash transfers to poor and vulnerable households Can Digital Cash […]

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Every so often, we’ll be sharing recent news about cash transfers from around the world. Here’s the latest: Cash transfers can plug PDS leakages: study – The Hindu – February 1, 2015 – study estimates that almost half of grains released through PDS did not reach intended beneficiaries in 2011-2012, and that cash transfers may […]

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Since we relaunched this website last month, the performance charts you see throughout pipe in data from the field in real-time as our field team carries out its work. So, we thought we should let you know that the team is taking a well-deserved break from December 20 to January 4, to recharge their batteries […]

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It’s official – poor families in Kenya and Uganda are getting the full $5M match from Good Ventures. In just eight weeks, thousands of people have given $5,019,543 directly to the poor. What this community has done is just remarkable: 4,000+: individual donors 32: countries represented $1: smallest donation $100,000: largest donation 3.4: bitcoins donated […]

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Thanks to the time and efforts of a generous volunteer, this section of  the GiveDirectly website will now feature more frequent updates, including reports from our field team, lessons learned from our work, and the latest evidence on the impact our cash transfers have on the lives of the poor. If you have a question […]

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Evidence behind unconditional cash transfers captured the media’s attention in May: Jacquelline Fuller in Fast Company: “This is a way to transform how people think about aid. There is no reason why a lot of development dollars couldn’t be shifted to a model like this.” Matthew Yglesias in Slate: “Money with no strings attached not […]

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Jacquelline Fuller in the Harvard Business Review: “…GiveDirectly has a new concept: What if cash transfers are used as a standard benchmark against which to measure all development aid? What if every nonprofit that focused on poverty alleviation had to prove they could do more for the poor with a dollar than the poor could […]

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We are pleased to announce that GiveDirectly has received a $2.4M Global Impact Award from Google. Two things excite us about this project. First, over 90% of the award ($2.21M) is earmarked for direct cash transfers to the poor. Delivering these funds will enable thousands of families to pursue their own goals with no strings […]

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Paul recorded a discussion on cash transfers for the BBC with Duncan Green of Oxfam and Mike Jennings of the School of Oriental and African Studies. The (heavily edited) recording is available, and Duncan’s follow-up blog post (archive link) includes some interesting ideas.

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