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Good practice ★ 100 Evidence: Quasi-experimental Compare

Novissi: AI-Targeted Digital Cash Transfers and Togo's ASTRE Social Registry

Togo built a fully digital, mobile-money cash-transfer system using satellite imagery and phone data to target its poorest citizens during COVID-19, then …

Lomé, Togo

Good practice ★ 100 Evidence: Observational / pre–post Compare

Female Secondary School Assistance Programme (FSSAP) — Conditional Stipend for Girls' Education, Bangladesh

Bangladesh's FSSAP (1994) provides conditional stipends and fee waivers to rural girls in secondary school. It supported 2 million+ girls annually, cutting …

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Good practice ★ 96 Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Compare

Zambia GEWEL — Girls' Education, Women's Empowerment and Livelihoods Programme

Zambia's GEWEL programme (World Bank/GoZ) delivers livelihood packages to poor rural women and school stipends to vulnerable girls. By end-2024: 139,351 women …

Lusaka, Zambia

Good practice ★ 96 Evidence: Quasi-experimental Compare

Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) — Targeted Cash Transfer to Female Heads of Household

Pakistan’s BISP pays quarterly grants to >6.1 million female household heads across 149 districts. Oxford Policy Management’s evaluation (2010–2017) found poverty fell …

Islamabad, Pakistan

Good practice ★ 96 Evidence: Quasi-experimental Compare

Takaful and Karama Cash Transfer Programme

Egypt's flagship cash-transfer scheme (2015-present): 4.67 million households enrolled, 75% of card holders women. Two IFPRI impact evaluations confirm 8.4% consumption rise, …

Cairo, Egypt

Good practice ★ 92 Evidence: Observational / pre–post Compare

Haiti Mobile Money Initiative — Building a National Mobile Money Market (MonCash & T-Cash)

USAID and the Gates Foundation seeded Haiti's mobile-money market in 2010 with a $10m milestone-prize fund. Digicel's MonCash grew to 805,000 active …

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Good practice ★ 92 Evidence: Randomised controlled trial Compare

LISTA — Tablet-Based Financial Education for Cash-Transfer Recipients

LISTA, Fundación Capital's tablet financial-education app for Colombia's cash-transfer recipients, joined national policy in 2015. A randomised trial of 3,000 women found …

Bogotá, Colombia

Good practice ★ 85 Evidence: Observational / pre–post Compare

Lisungi Safety Net Project — Gender-Responsive Cash Transfers and Refugee Women's Economic Inclusion in the Republic of Congo

Congo's Lisungi safety-net project paid cash transfers and business grants directly to women, reaching 76,000 cash-transfer beneficiaries and 95,000 business-grant recipients (2015-2023) …

Brazzaville, Congo

Good practice ★ 85 Evidence: Observational / pre–post Compare

Bangladesh Vulnerable Group Development (VGD) Programme for Rural Women

Bangladesh's flagship rural women's safety net, running since 1975. Each 24-month cycle supports ~750,000 women with 30 kg of fortified rice monthly …

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Good practice ★ 85 Evidence: Quasi-experimental Compare

Berhane Hewan — Conditional Asset Transfer to Delay Child Marriage

Two-year pilot in Amhara, Ethiopia (2004–2006) combining a conditional goat transfer for unmarried girls in school, safe-space mentoring and SRH education. Girls …

Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

Good practice ★ 80 Evidence: Observational / pre–post Compare

Proactive AI-Driven Benefit Assignment — Azerbaijan's State Social Protection Fund System

Azerbaijan's State Social Protection Fund uses AI-based data matching across 15+ agencies to proactively identify and enrol eligible citizens in welfare benefits. …

Baku, Azerbaijan