Impact of Conditional Cash Transfer on Out of School Children: A Case Study Of Waseela E Taleem Program In Sindh, Pakistan
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https://doi.org/10.62843/jssr.v6i1.651Keywords:
Conditional Cash Transfer, Out-Of-School, School Enrolment, Waseela-E-Taleem, Sindh, PakistanAbstract
The research examined the effect of the conditional cash transfer (CCT) Program on decreasing the amount of out of school children in Sindh. Benazir Income Support Program (BISP) introduced the WET Program, aimed at kids aged from 04 to 12 years from the households for the school enrollment and maintain more than 70 percentage of attendance to achieve the PKR 750 per kid to support schooling costs. To analyze the impact of CCT on increasing the enrollment and attendance in school of those children who have been out of the school in the Mirpurkhas & Naushroferoz districts of Sindh and to examine the challenges and limitations which may hinder the results. The study has gathered the household data from questionnaire survey to find the outcomes. Furthermore, there were several execution challenges including infrastructure of teacher and availability of teachers, and to monitor the attendance in remote areas CCT program provides a promising opportunity to decrease the OOS children in Sindh. However, its positive effect mainly depends on the investment in school infrastructure and improved monitoring on attendance and better incentives mainly in the context of poverty and poor supply of education. Rao-soft online sample size calculator was used to compute the sample of this research. The 271-sample size figure was calculated with a 95% confidence level and a 5% margin error. Parents/guardians of children aged 5–16 years Registered under the Waseela-e-Taleem (WeT) Program Living in MirpurKhas & Nashroferoz districts of Sindh was selected as the target audience for the study.
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