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Accepted Paper:
Not for All: Private Cash Transfer Beneficiaries’ Perceptions of the Selection Criteria in Uganda and Tanzania
Fred Bateganya
(Makerere University)
Lars Buur
(Roskilde University)
Rehema Kilonzo
(The University of Dodoma)
Malin Nystrand
(Roskilde University)
Organizations offering private cash transfers demand a selection criteria. Yet beneficiaries’ perceptions about the criteria is unknown. This paper seeks to interrogate private cash transfer beneficiaries’ perception of the selection criteria.
Paper long abstract:
The first two decades of the twenty first century have witnessed the adoption and adaption of cash transfers as a complementary and in some cases an alternative vehicle to help vulnerable groups improve their livelihoods. In sub Saharan Africa, cash transfers have been delivered by both state (public) and private (non-state) actors. While levels of adoption varies across countries, cash transfers rarely get to cover all persons who are in need. As such, different cash transfer programs have set in place selection criteria for beneficiaries.
This paper seeks to understand private cash transfer beneficiaries’ perception of the criteria used to identify and recruit beneficiaries. The paper attempts to provide answers to three critical questions: i) who selects the beneficiaries? ii) how are the beneficiaries selected? and iii) how do the beneficiaries experience the selection process and critiera?. In answering these questions, the paper use empirical data from social cash transfer projects by privately managed (NGO) organisations in Uganda and Tanzania.