Paper short abstract:

This paper seeks to evaluate how Conditional Cash Transfer programmes (CCTs) projects are funded, their impetus and assess how societies are prepared for exit of the programmes in Kenya and Mexico.

Paper long abstract:

In an attempt to put an end to poverty globally, many efforts have been employed. To cushion the 'bottom billion' many countries have adopted Conditional Cash Transfer programmes (CCTs). CCTs aim to combat inter-generational transmission of poverty by encouraging investments in human capital, that is, education, health and nutrition to a great extent these aims have been achieved. However, there is scanty research on how beneficiaries are viewed within their communities. The selection of beneficiaries may follow well laid out criteria but this does not make it foolproof, resulting in frictions between societal members. The projects are mainly externally funded leading to the argument that the projects are donor-led. This begs the question on sustainability of these projects in cases of regime and conditional change. This paper seeks to evaluate how the projects are funded, their impetus and assess how societies are prepared for exit of the programmes. We use a comparative approach seeking to analyse the points of convergence and divergence. This is a secondary research that heavily borrows from extant qualitative and quantitative data sets.