Assessment of the Effectiveness of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) towards improving attendance of Primary school students.

Msonde, Juma Mkombozi (2020) Assessment of the Effectiveness of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) towards improving attendance of Primary school students. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

This study is an investigation of assessment of the Conditional Cash Transfer program on improving primary school pupil’s attendance. Objectives of the study were to identify strategies used by the program to improve attendance as well as to determine the challenges facing implementation of CCT program on improvement of primary pupil’s attendance. The study conducted at Tanga district in 3 divisions, six wards, six mitaa and six schools. Data was collected using questionnaires to primary school teachers and students as well as interview to beneficiary household’s from a sample size of 133 respondents and analyzed by descriptive analysis using SPSS. The study revealed that, the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program has contribution in improving primary school pupils in Tanga. Providing grants to beneficiary households, which then used to provide necessary school needs has greatly contributed to the pupil’s attendance. Most of the pupils were missing school due to lack of necessary school needs like uniform, therefore the program has become the solution. The study also found that the program implementation has several actors whereby each actor has its specific responsibility in achieving the program especially improving attendance. Among the important actors are teachers and household’s representatives/heads. The study also lists some challenges in implementing CCT program and some of them are program objectives are not clear to all implementing actors, less participation to other actors of the program and lack of motivation to the teachers as well as low grant paid to beneficiary households. The study recommends to conduct sessions to all actors of the program like teachers and students so as to understand objectives of the program and own responsibilities. The study also recommends motivating teachers in order to raise their performance. Keywords: Cash transfer, effectiveness, primary school attendance

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