Trial reportSocial science & medicine (1982)2015
Impact of the Kenya Cash Transfer for Orphans and Vulnerable Children on early pregnancy and marriage of adolescent girls.
Trial report in Social science & medicine (1982), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03965273 (A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial for Measuring the Impact of Tipping Point - an Intervention Addressing Child Marriage in Selected District of Bangladesh), which is not on this map. Cited by 61 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial for Measuring the Impact of Tipping Point - an Intervention Addressing Child Marriage in Selected District of Bangladesh
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61 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Female empowerment to improve sexual and reproductive health outcomes and prevent violence in adolescent girls and young women in Uganda: evidence reviews for policy.African health sciences · 2022Pooled it
- The impact of cash transfers on mental health in children and young people in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ global health · 2021Pooled it
- Cognitive and Educational Interventions for Orphans and Vulnerable Children Affected by HIV/AIDS: A Meta-Analysis.Child development · 2021Pooled it
- A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Interventions for Orphans and Vulnerable Children Affected by HIV/AIDS Worldwide.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2020Pooled it
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- The impact of cash transfers on social determinants of health and health inequalities in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review.Health policy and planning · 2018Pooled it
- Unconditional cash transfers for reducing poverty and vulnerabilities: effect on use of health services and health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Conditional and Unconditional Cash Transfers to Improve Use of Contraception in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Systematic Review.Studies in family planning · 2016Pooled it
- Unconditional cash transfers reduce homelessness.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Trial
- Transactional sex among adolescent girls and young women enrolled in a cash plus intervention in rural Tanzania: a mixed-methods study.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2022Trial
- Impacts of two-year multisectoral cash plus programs on young adolescent girls' education, health and economic outcomes: Adolescent Girls Initiative-Kenya (AGI-K) randomized trial.BMC public health · 2021Trial
- The Samata intervention to increase secondary school completion and reduce child marriage among adolescent girls: results from a cluster-randomised control trial in India.Journal of global health · 2019Trial
- Economic incentives for HIV testing by adolescents in Zimbabwe: a randomised controlled trial.The lancet. HIV · 2018Trial
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- The Adolescent Girls Initiative-Kenya (AGI-K): study protocol.BMC public health · 2016Trial
- Cash transfers targeting adolescent wellbeing: a scoping review of the literature in low- and middle-income countries.Global health action · 2026Article
- The limits of awareness campaigns: persistent age-disparate relationships in KwaZulu-Natal more than a decade after the 2012 sugar daddies destroy lives campaign.International journal of public health · 2026Article
- Cash transfers relax climate-induced mobility constraints in Kenya.Population and environment · 2026Article
- Estimating the human development impacts and economic returns from an adolescent cash 'plus' programme in Kenya: An economic modelling study.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- How do gender transformative interventions reduce adolescent pregnancy in low- and middle-income countries: a realist synthesis.Journal of global health · 2025Review
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Abstract
There is promising evidence that poverty-targeted cash transfer programs can have positive impacts on adolescent transitions to adulthood in resource poor settings, however existing research is typically from small scale programs in diverse geographic and cultural settings. We provide estimates of the impact of a national unconditional cash transfer program, the Kenya Cash Transfer for Orphans and Vulnerable Children, on pregnancy and early marriage among females aged 12 to 24, four years after program initiation. The evaluation was designed as a clustered randomized controlled trial and ran from 2007 to 2011, capitalizing on the existence of a control group, which was delayed entry to the program due to budget constraints. Findings indicate that, among 1549 females included in the study, while the program reduced the likelihood of pregnancy by five percentage points, there was no significant impact on likelihood of early marriage. Program impacts on pregnancy appear to work through increasing the enrollment of young women in school, financial stability of the household and delayed age at first sex. The Kenyan program is similar in design to most other major national cash transfer programs in Eastern and Southern Africa, suggesting a degree of generalizability of the results reported here. Although the objective of the program is primarily poverty alleviation, it appears to have an important impact on facilitating the successful transition of adolescent girls into adulthood.
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