for non-beneficiaries. The NGO GiveDirectly provides large cash transfers to rural households in Kenya

The NGO GiveDirectly is responsible for the intervention; GiveDirectly provides large

, unconditional cash transfers to poor households in rural Kenya. GiveDirectly identifies villages in which

are randomly assigned to treatment or control status. Within treatment villages, GiveDirectly then identifies

to treatment or control status. In treatment villages, GiveDirectly enrolls and distributes cash

assign half of the villages in an area targeted by the NGO GiveDirectly to an unconditional cash

The NGO GiveDirectly provides large, unconditional cash transfers to poor households in rural Kenya

. GiveDirectly identifies villages in which they are willing to work, and in order to facilitate

treatment villages, GiveDirectly then identifies all households that meet their eligibility

1,000 made in a series of three payments. GiveDirectly is responsible for the intervention. The cash

, GiveDirectly enrolls and distributes cash transfers to households that meet its eligibility criteria.

to arm, including the cash transfer amount from GiveDirectly. Some components of the GiveDirectly

), and a household grant program implemented by GiveDirectly. These two treatments are compared

programs across the world. GiveDirectly has pioneered the use of household grants

(no intervention), and 61 were assigned to GiveDirectly household grants in a range around the anticipated

assigned to the large GiveDirectly transfer intended to maximize cost effectiveness of cash

The NGO GiveDirectly is responsible for the intervention; GiveDirectly provides large

, unconditional cash transfers to poor households in rural Kenya. GiveDirectly identifies villages in which

are randomly assigned to treatment or control status. Within treatment villages, GiveDirectly then identifies

with the Government of Liberia (GoL), the World Bank, and the NGO GiveDirectly to conduct a randomized

by GiveDirectly. Beneficiary households will receive a series of 6 cash transfers, each valued at roughly US

by the Ministry of Gender, Families and Social Protection) and implemented by GiveDirectly. Households

households headed by married or cohabiting partners. The session will be facilitated by a GiveDirectly

settings, at minimal marginal cost. (For example, the main modification GiveDirectly needs to make

in TO and TP communities will be eligible for transfers. GiveDirectly will be responsible for identifying

all 2,500 enrolled women. Since GiveDirectly offers phones to households when needed, we expect

IDinsight, GiveDirectly and Movva are partnering to rigorously evaluate a Movva SMS-based

of GiveDirectly recipients in Lilongwe Rural. The objective of this study is to assess the impact of the SMS

Evaluation of Parental Engagement SMS Intervention on GiveDirectly beneficiaries in Lilongwe Rural, Malawi

of life. IDinsight, GiveDirectly and Movva are partnering to rigorously evaluate a Movva SMS-based

of GiveDirectly recipients in Lilongwe Rural. The objective of this study is to assess the impact

) across ~2600 GiveDirectly beneficiary households with children of school-going age. The RCT

, GiveDirectly, which provides unconditional cash transfers to poor households in rural Kenya

of transfers, where GiveDirectly will vary the structure and schedule of transfer payments, as well

from GiveDirectly. The structure and timing of these transfers, as well as the information provided to recipients, will be randomized at the household level.

GiveDirectly projects. 1.3) Female empowerment: This individual-level composite index comprises

GiveDirectly aims to understand the role of unconditional cash transfers as one possible route

, Uganda. GiveDirectly recently conducted a pilot in Kyaka II Settlement in Uganda. Cash transfers were

GiveDirectly is an international nonprofit that implements unconditional cash transfer programs

directed at communities living in extreme poverty. GiveDirectly implements a range of transfer designs

households. To ensure the integrity of the process, GiveDirectly employs a set of independent checks

the selection process. GiveDirectly aims to understand the role of unconditional cash transfers as one

(~10,000) registered refugee households living in Kiryandongo. UNHCR and GiveDirectly have identified

Haushofer and Shapiro's (2013) evaluation of the GiveDirectly unconditional cash transfers program

by GiveDirectly (the cash transfers are implemented over mobile money) but the study

uniformly across the relevant treatment villages. However, GiveDirectly will also implement two different

will receive each nudge. The control villages will not receive any nudges. GiveDirectly will enrol

by GiveDirectly is began in November 2017 and is expected to be completed in April 2018.