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The past ten years have seen an increase in the use of conditional cash transfer programs in development agendas throughout Latin America and other regions of the world. These programs are designed to alleviate short-term hardships due to indigence while encouraging poor households to invest in human capital in order to decrease chronic poverty. Each conditional cash transfer program, while typically using the same general framework, has unique aspects that set it apart from other programs. The aim of this study is to provide an overview and a critical review of one such conditional cash transfer program (CCT), Honduras’ Programa de Asignación Familiar (Family Allowances Program) or PRAF, in an effort to provide stakeholders, policymakers, and practitioners with an understanding of the aspects of the program and the challenges that it has faced and continues to confront. This understanding can help policymakers in other countries when they implement CCTs within their own cultural, economic and political milieu.

The program PRAF targeting identified schools and health centers located in areas with the country’s highest malnutrition levels. Specific schools and health centers were then chosen from within those areas as distribution points. The areas of PRAF that were supported by the Honduras government, World Bank and Inter-America Development Bank (IDB or IADB) also required the distributing health care facilities to offer basic services and satisfy minimal staffing requirements. The program funds were distributed through these selected school and health centers in the identified locations. Besides, data on stakeholders was collected through qualitative content analysis and analyzed through the forced field methods. The study of PRAF stakeholders found that donors such as the IDB and WHO, policymakers, the IDB, the International Food Policy Research Institute, or IFPRI worked together through a series of meetings to agree on the objectives, measurement outcomes and evaluation of the program. Other stakeholders included representatives from the Secretary of Education and Secretary of Health (Glassman, & Temin, 2016).

The study has provided information on Honduras’ CCT program, the Programa de Asignación Familiar, or PRAF. It has traced the program’s evolution from its inception as a compensatory mechanism to its current embodiment as a vehicle for encouraging human capital accumulation among the poorest Honduran households. Various aspects of the program, such as its components, supply-side complements, targeting, monitoring and evaluation, have been assessed. PRAF has many unique facets that should not be mechanically generalized or applied to other programs without considering each country’s distinctive political, economic and cultural context. Nevertheless, the experience of PRAF in Honduras can provide policymakers with valuable lessons on how they should design their own programs.

Finally, one of the key lessons gained from PRAF is that external stakeholders should understand and take into account the domestic political and institutional environment, and should recognize the risks that they are taking in intervening with domestic stakeholders. International institutions often look for domestic ‘champions’ who could effectively implement a program of their own design, rather than working constructively with domestic stakeholders who have significant experience of their own in managing similar programs.

Reference

Glassman, A., & Temin, M. (2016). Millions Saved: New cases of proven success in global health (3rd ed.). Washington DC: Center for Global Development.

https://ipcig.org/pub/IPCCountryStudy15.pdf