Impact of conditional cash transfer on household food security in Sumbawanga municipality, Tanzania
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Date
2022
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Global scientific journal
Abstract
In Tanzania, poor households are served with Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) to increase their
incomes and opportunities while improving their food and non-food consumption. The study
aimed at assessing the impact of conditional cash transfer on poverty reduction on household
food security in the Sumbawanga Municipality, Tanzania. The study adopted a cross-sectional
research design. This study used quantitative data generated from the household survey with a
sample of 450 households. Data were analyzed by using propensity score matching with the aid
of STATA 14. The study findings show that on average conditional cash transfer programmes
have a significant effect on improving a household’s food security by increasing food
consumption by 47 percent and reducing adverse coping strategies by 59 percent. Cash given
used to purchase food and reduce adverse coping strategies that make households have food security and reduced vulnerability. The study recommends that the Ministry under the
President’s Office Public Services Management and Good Governance through the conditional
cash transfer programme to increase the amount of cash given to poor households and the
Government, Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) and other stakeholders should work
together with the conditional cash transfer programmes to continue to improve food security.
Moreover, the programme is recommended to increase beneficiaries to help more households to
graduate from extreme poverty.
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Conditional cash transfer, Poverty, Food security, Propensity score matching