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We are pleased to announce the publication of IPC Country Study #15, “Assessing Honduras’ CCT Programme PRAF, Programa de Asignación Familiar: The Expected and Unexpected Realities”. The author, Charity Moore, IPC research associate, investigates the evolution and current state of Honduras’ conditional cash transfer programme, highlighting the point that it has had a dual nature, with one part externally financed and another domestically driven. She argues that this structure has hindered institutional transformation of the progarmme, weakening its long-term sustainability and national ownership. She also covers many topics relevant to other programmes, such as the targeting methodology, the administration of transfers, programme monitoring and evaluation, the role of conditionalities, and supply-side issues related to the programme.

Available at: http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/pub/IPCCountryStudy15.pdf

This Country Study is part of IPC’s ongoing research, evaluation and training programme on “Cash Transfers and Social Protection”.

Please see the related IPC Country Study #9, “The Challenges of El Salvador’s Conditional Cash Transfer Programme, Red Solidaria” and IPC Working Paper #38, “Confronting Capacity Constraints on Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America: the Cases of El Salvador and Paraguay”.