Child Support Programme (CSP)

Introduction

• An add on Conditional cash transfer Programme
• Piloted in 03 districts ( Tharpakar, Bhakkar & Kohistan)
• Now upscaled in 08 additional districts across the country
• Continued technical collaboration of the World Bank

Objectives

• To promote primary school education and reduce dropout ratio by providing additional resources to ultra poor families for sending   their children to schools

Beneficiaries

• Incentive in the form of cash transfers (On Quarterly Basis)
• Amount of benefit:

• Rs. 300/- per month for one child
• Rs. 600/- per month for two or more children

• An amount of Rs. 88 (m) has been disbursed among around 12000 households beneficiaries having 35,700 children.

Evaluation of Programme by Gallup, Pakistan

• Initial pilot districts selected through Baseline Study
• Rapid Assessment reported encouraging results
• Recent final Impact Evaluation of the programme has revealed its successful implementation. Due to CSP positive impact, enrollment during (2008-10) has been increased by +12 % in the treatment districts of programme and decreased -6% in its comparative control districts.

Future Vision

• The pilot has been successfully evaluated and subsequently the programme is going to be up scaled in 27 districts across the country in year 2011-12. Coverage of 144 districts countrywide  including AJK, NA & FATA will be in a phased manner.

CSP Scale-up Districts (2008-09)

Sr No	District
1	Bhakkar
2	Tharparkar
3	Kohistan
4	Ghanchey (ICT)
5	Kharan (Balochistan)
6	Rawalpindi (Punjab)
7	Nawabshah (Sindh)
8	Quetta (Balochistan)
9	Multan (Punjab)
10	Muzafarabad (AJK)
11	Abbottabad (KPK)

CSP Scale-up Plan

#	Year	Districts for Scale-up
1	2007-08	3
2	2008-09	3
3	2009-10	11
4	2010-11	11
5	2011-12	27
6	2012-13	53
7	2013-14	96
8	2014-15	144

CSP Payments Detail

Year: 2007

Years	Districts	Beneficiaries	Amount paid	Beneficiaries Paid	Total Amount (Rs)
MINI CSP PAYMENT
2007	Tharparkar	580	539,300	580	539,300
Sub Total (2007)					539,300

Year: 2008

Years	Districts	Beneficiaries	Amount paid	Beneficiaries Paid	Total Amount (Rs)
2008	1st CSP Payment
	Bhakkar	3264	3,069,000	10903	10,316,250
	Tharparkar	4141	3,812,550
	Kohistan	3498	3,434,700
	2nd CSP Payment
	Bhakkar	956	978,150	5536	5,690,700
	Tharparkar	2357	2,190,000
	Kohistan	2223	2,522,550
	3rd CSP Payment
	Bhakkar	929	940,800	5206	5,398,298
	Tharparkar	1982	2,071,156
	Kohistan	2295	2,386,342
Sub Total (2008)					21,405,248

Year: 2009

Years	Districts	Beneficiaries	Amount paid	Beneficiaries Paid	Total Amount (Rs)
2009	4th CSP Payment
	Bhakkar	2745	2,580,260	7861	7,863,794
	Tharparkar	2459	2,599,344
	Kohistan	2657	2,684,190
	5th CSP Payment
	Bhakkar	2697	2,617,350	6854	6,367,500
	Tharparkar	1873	1,573,650
	Kohistan	2284	2,176,500
	6th CSP Payment
	Bhakkar	2423	3,980,100	6860	10,031,850
	Tharparkar	2061	2,793,750
	Kohistan	2376	3,258,000
Sub Total (2009)					24,263,144

Year: 2010

Years	Districts	Beneficiaries	Amount paid	Beneficiaries Paid	Total Amount (Rs)
2010	7th CSP Payment
	Bhakkar	2517	4,346,677	6985	11,620,384
	Tharparkar	1985	2,998,800
	Kohistan	2483	4,274,907
	8th CSP Payment
	Bhakkar	2442	4,094,100	6561	10,332,206
	Tharparkar	1723	2,440,800
	Kohistan	2396	3,797,306
	9th CSP Payment
	Bhakkar	2387	3,805,954	6405	10,148,424
	Tharparkar	1719	2,483,970
	Kohistan	2299	3,858,500
	Sub Total (2010)				32,101,014

Year: 2011

Years	Districts	Beneficiaries	Amount paid	Beneficiaries Paid	Total Amount (Rs)
2011	10th CSP Payment
	Bhakkar	2316	3,881,952	6158	9,798,624
	Tharparkar	1648	2,388,096
	Kohistan	2194	3,528,576
	Sub Total (2011)				9,798,624

Grand Total (all CSP Payments)

Rs. 88,107,330