Ghana LEAP 1000 Programme: endline evaluation report

An end line impact evaluation report has recently been completed documenting the various impacts found in Ghana's national unconditional cash transfer programme targeting young child health and nutrition outcomes in impoverished northern districts of the country.

The report of the Ghana LEAP 1000 is an extension of the country's mainstream LEAP programme, Ghana’s flagship social protection programme, which provides bi-monthly cash payments to extremely poor households in all districts of the country. While LEAP focuses on households with elderly, people with a disability and orphaned and vulnerable children, LEAP 1000 targets pregnant women and mothers with infants, to support the window of the first 1,000 days of life and thus alleviating household poverty and improve nutritional status of infants. In addition to the cash transfer, LEAP 1000 offers free registration in the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).