Browsing by Author "Kisiwa, Mariam David"

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Impact of conditional cash transfer on household food security in Sumbawanga municipality, Tanzania
(Global scientific journal, 2022) Kisiwa, Mariam David; Allan, Tumaini
In Tanzania, poor households are served with Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) to increase their incomes and opportunities while improving their food and non-food consumption. The study aimed at assessing the impact of conditional cash transfer on poverty reduction on household food security in the Sumbawanga Municipality, Tanzania. The study adopted a cross-sectional research design. This study used quantitative data generated from the household survey with a sample of 450 households. Data were analyzed by using propensity score matching with the aid of STATA 14. The study findings show that on average conditional cash transfer programmes have a significant effect on improving a household’s food security by increasing food consumption by 47 percent and reducing adverse coping strategies by 59 percent. Cash given used to purchase food and reduce adverse coping strategies that make households have food security and reduced vulnerability. The study recommends that the Ministry under the President’s Office Public Services Management and Good Governance through the conditional cash transfer programme to increase the amount of cash given to poor households and the Government, Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) and other stakeholders should work together with the conditional cash transfer programmes to continue to improve food security. Moreover, the programme is recommended to increase beneficiaries to help more households to graduate from extreme poverty.
Impact of conditional cash transfer on human capital investment in Sumbawanga municipality, Tanzania
(Open Journal of Social Sciences, 2023-02-15) Kisiwa, Mariam David; Magasha, Omary; Lumenyela, Rogers A; Allan, Tumaini
The purpose of this paper was to assess the effect of Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) on human capital development especially in access to health services and education in Sumbawanga Municipality, Tanzania. The study adopted a cross- sectional research design whereby data used were collected through household survey with a sample of 450 poor households. Data were analyzed by using Propensity Score Matching in STATA 14. The study findings show that on av- erage conditional cash transfer programme improves human capital investment by increasing access to health services by 70 percent and increasing school at- tendance by 32 days in a year. Cash given was used to pay for medical care and buy school requirements for their children hence improving school attendance and the health status of members of the household. The CCT programme is crucial for human capital development for the poor households and the gov- ernment and other stakeholders should work together with the CCT programme to continue to improve education and access to health services. In Tanzania, evaluation of CCT programme has been largely used descriptive statistics and OLS regressions ending with biased results. The paper applied PSM to handle biasness of research results to confirm the impact of CCT on human capital development, the approach which was not applied before.
Impact of conditional cash transfer on poverty reduction in Sumbawanga municipality, Tanzania
(Sokoine University of Agriculture, 2022) Kisiwa, Mariam David
Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) has been recognized to reduce poverty in Tanzania. However, there is scant information on the impact of conditional cash transfers on beneficiaries’ food security, health and education status within the household. This study aims to evaluate the impact of conditional cash transfers on beneficiaries' food security, health and educational status within the household in Sumbawanga Municipality. A cross- section research design was adopted. The sample size used was 450 households with 171 households as the treated group (beneficiaries) and 279 households as the control group (non-beneficiaries). Quantitative data were obtained from a household survey and analysed by using propensity score matching with the aid of STATA 14. The study findings show that on average conditional cash transfer programmes have significant effects on improving households’ food security by increasing food consumption by 47 percent, reducing adverse coping strategies by 59 percent, increasing access to health services by 70 percent and increasing school attendance by 32 days more than non-beneficiary children. The study recommends that the Ministry under the President’s office Public Services Management and Good Governance through the CCT programme increase beneficiaries and the amount of basic cash given to poor households with higher household sizes and the Government, Non- Government Organizations and other stakeholders should work together with the CCT programme to continue to improve food security, education and access to health services in the study area.