Can impact evaluation drive changes in the design of social safety net programs?
This episode features Egypt’s Minister of Social Solidarity and Social Protection Nivine El-Kabbag along with IFPRI researchers Clemens Breisinger and Hoda El Enbaby. In a conversation with Sivan Yosef and Drew Sample, they share the story of how IFPRI collaborated with the government of Egypt to evaluate the country’s first national conditional cash transfer program, Takaful and Karama. The research results had a powerful impact, prompting policymakers to allocate more funds for protecting the poor.
The evaluation was commissioned by the World Bank and funded by the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
