Programme for the Advancement through Health and Education (PATH) Program Description
This program is designed to replace three social assistance programs and has two components. The child allowance component provides a cash transfer to eligible households with children up to 17 years of age on the condition that they attend school regularly and assist required health center visits. The second component is a social assistance grant which provides specific categories of adults (poor pregnant or lactating mothers, elderly poor (over age 65) and poor disabled and destitute adults under age 65), with a cash transfer conditional on their attendance at regular health center visits. The objective of the program is to improve human capital formation among poor households and reduce poverty in the future while at the same time providing a safety net and alleviating current poverty. Only poor households with children or eligible adults can be eligible for the program. The program is implemented by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security and its 13 parish offices at the local level. Program Profile
Objectives | - increase educational attainment, improve health outcomes, and thus reduce poverty
- reduce current poverty
- reduce child labor
- serve as a safety net
| Conditionalities | - education: minimum school attendance of 85% (max 9 days of absence per term)
- health: compliance with required health visits per year(number depends on beneficiary age and status)
| Transfer size | - education: US$9 per child per month
- health: US$9 per eligible household member per month
| Frequency of transfer | | Target population | - education: poor households with children 6-17 years
- health: poor households with children 0-5 years, pregnant and lactating women, elderly over 65 years, persons with disabilities, destitute adults under 65 years
| Targeting mechanism | | Implementing agency | |
 Profile prepared for the 3rd Intl. Conference on CCTs in English (46KB PDF) ◘ Español (40KB PDF).
Operational Documents World Bank Projects Documents IADB Project Documents Official web site Evaluation The Programme for Advancement through Health and Education (PATH)(368kb pdf), prepared by Francisco Ayala, Inter-Regional Inequality Facility Policy Brief 4, Overseas Development Institute, February 2006 Evaluation of Jamaica’s PATH Programme: Targeting Assessment, prepared by Dan Levy and Jim Ohls, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., July 2004 First Qualitative Assessment on Jamaica’s PATH Programme, prepared by Hope Enterprises Ltd. (Principal Investigators: Maxine Wedderburn, Pansy Hamilton, and Deborah Bourne) for Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. and The Government of Jamaica, April 2004 Jamaica Social Safety Net Report, prepared by Dr. Caroline Fawcett for Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. and The Government of Jamaica, April 2004 Evaluation of Jamaica’s PATH Program: Methodology Report (197kb pdf), prepared by Dan Levy and Jim Ohls, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., September 2003 
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