Monitoring Compliance with Conditionality
Most conditional cash transfer programs provide a benefit to households compliant with a set of co-responsibilities such as regular school attendance, use of health care services for immunization, growth and development monitoring, pre- and post-natal controls, participation in health and nutrition education sessions, or obtaining identity documents. Verifying the compliance with these co-responsibilities varies a lot by country and there is no optimal solution to the issue of how frequently it should be done, whether to verify everyone or only a random sample, or how to organize the information flow between service providers and program implementing agency.
At this point of the CCT Conference, participants would have heard the arguments for and against conditioning. This session is intended to discuss the processes and operational issues involved in verifying compliance with co-responsibilities. The session will begin with a quick overview of the different verification mechanisms and the operational challenges that CCTs face.
Participants will be given the opportunity to speak about the lessons they learned based on their own country/ program experience. Pros and cons of different mechanisms will be debated by the participants.
Questions for discussion
- What has been the experience with the different verification mechanisms and what are their advantages and disadvantages?
- How to motivate the service providers to keep records and fill in forms without overburdening?
- How to organize the information flow for timely link to the payment cycle?
- How to avoid having the beneficiaries running to collect stamps/stickers instead of receiving services?
- Verification for everyone or sample-based?
- How costly is verification?
- Do the costs of complying with conditions exclude some poor households from transfers?
Panelists
- María Concepción Steta, National Coordination of Oportunidades, Mexico: "Oportunidades: Monitoring Conditionalities"
- Colette Risden, Program of Advancement through Health and Education, Jamaica: “Monitoring Performance: Jamaica”
Moderator
- Cornelia Tesliuc, World Bank
Rapporteur
- Christine Weigand, World Bank
- Rapporteur Notes:
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