Impact evaluation of UNICEF's Fiavota emergency and recovery cash programme, Madagascar - mid-line report

This report provides results of an impact evaluation of the first phase of the Fiavota cash transfer programme for drought-affected households in southern Madagascar. In 2016, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in partnership with the World Bank and Ministry of Population, Social Protection, and Support for Women (MPPSPF) started giving cash transfers to households with young children. The first phase of the transfer covered 56,729 households and ended in March 2018. The American Institutes for Research (AIR) was contracted by UNICEF Madagascar to help design and implement an impact evaluation of the first phase of the programme (with a non-experimental design). The primary purpose of this impact report is to present the main results from the first phase of the cash transfer programme on immediate livelihood effects, immediate nutritional effects for children, food security for households, broader effects on households and programme performance during the Emergency Response phase of Fiavota, from December 2016 to September 2017.