PHM-Exch> New Book: Lasting Benefits: the role of cash transfers in tackling child mortality (SC/UK)

[Claudio Schuftan]

  Save the Children UK is pleased to announce the launch of Lasting
Benefits: the role of cash transfers in tackling child
mortality<http://emailsavethechildren.org.uk/a/hBKNnXhAPUFAvB7uHaf$zdpWXcp/report>
- the latest report from our Child Survival Flagship series.  Over the past
decade, an increasing number of developing country governments, working with
donors and NGOs, have been implementing cash transfer programmes - regular
transfers of cash to individuals or households. These programmes are united
by common assumptions: that income poverty has a highly damaging impact on
people's health and nutrition, and that cash empowers poor individuals and
households to make their own decisions on how to improve their lives. This
report argues that cash transfers - as part of a broader social protection
package - have a critical role to play in accelerating reductions in child
mortality. Across a number of countries, particularly in Latin America and
Africa, cash transfers have helped poor people to access food and health
care, and to enhance the status of women This report examines three key
questions:

   - What contribution can cash transfers make to reducing child mortality?
   - What are the broader economic benefits of investing in cash transfers?
   - How can child-focused cash transfers be affordable in developing
   countries?

We hope you find this report to be useful in the future as we work together
on the issues of newborn and child survival, social protection and cash
transfers. For further information please contact Anna Craig at
a.craig at savethechildren.org.uk. <a.craig at savethechildren.org.uk> Please
visit Lasting Benefits: The role of cash transfers in tackling child
mortality<http://emailsavethechildren.org.uk/a/hBKNnXhAPUFAvB7uHaf$zdpWXcp/report>to
read and download this publication.
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