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CCT Program Profile - Colombia
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| Country | Colombia | Program Name | Familias en Acción | Year started | 2001 | Status | Active | Targeting | | - target population | Extremely poor familieswith minors aged 0–6 not participating in other programs (health subsidy), and/or minors aged 7–17 enrolled in school (education subsidy) | - targeting method | Geographic targeting and proxy means testing | - coverage | 1.7 million households by end of 2007 | - incidence | n.a. | Benefits | | - benefit structure | Education subsidy: in elementary school, Col$15,000 per month (approximately $8) for each minor attending grades 2–5in high school, Col$25,000–60,000 per month (approximately $14–33) per minor attending grades 6–11
Health subsidy: Col$50,000 per month (approximately $3,028) per family with members less than 7 years | - payee | Mothers | - payment method | Through social security offices and other payment points | - payment frequency | Bimonthly | - duration | As long as eligible | - additional benefits | Health and nutrition education and empowerment of mothers through their organization in groups | Conditions | | - health | | - education | At least 80% school attendance in a 2-month cycle (maximum of 8 unjustified absences in a 2-month period) | - other | None | - verification of compliance–method | Beneficiaries receive forms on which their compliance with conditions is confirmed by health and education service providers; they provide these forms to the local program office on a regular basis | - verification of compliance–frequency | Bimonthly | - compliance statistics | 90% for health and education | Program Administration | | - institutional arrangement | Presidential Agency for Social Action and International Cooperation, local program offices | - program costs | |
Country Context | | General | | - population (total) | 45.6 million (2006) | - GDP per capita (PPP, 2005 $) | $6,181 (2006) | - poverty headcount ratio at $2/day | 17.8% (2003) | Education | | - net enrollment in primary level | 88.5% total (2006)
88.4% for girls, 88.6% for boys | - net enrollment in secondary level | 64.9% total (2006)
68.5% for girls, 61.5% for boys | Health | | - prevalence of child malnutrition (stunting) | 12% (2005) | - births attended by skilled health staff | 86.4% (2000) |
Source: Fiszbein A. and N. Schady (2009). Conditional Cash Transfers: Reducing Present and Future Poverty. Policy Research Report World Bank.
Operational Documents
 Official web site
World Bank Project Documents
IADB Project Documents
Evaluation
Familias en Acción - Colombia (676kb pdf), Overseas Development Institute Inter-Regional Inequality Facility Policy Brief No. 2, February 2006
The Impact of a Conditional Cash Transfer Programme on Consumption in Colombia (389kb pdf), prepared by Orazio Attanasio and Alice Mesnard, EDePo Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policies, The Institute for Fiscal Studies, Report Summary Familias 02, June 2005
The Impact of a Conditional Education Subsidy on School Enrolment in Colombia (199kb pdf), Orazio Attanasio, Emla Fitzsimons, Ana Gomez, EDePo Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policies, The Institute for Fiscal Studies, Report Summary Familias 01, March 2005
Evaluación del Impacto del Programa Familias en Acción – Subsidios Condicionados de la Red de Apoyo Social, Resumen Ejecutivo del Informe del Primer Seguimiento, Unión Temporal IFS, Econometria y SEI, Octubre de 2004
Evaluación del Impacto del Programa Familias en Acción – Subsidios Condicionados de la Red de Apoyo Social, Informe del Primer Seguimiento, Unión Temporal IFS, Econometria y SEI, Agosto 31 de 2004
Early Evaluation of a New Nutrition and Education Programme in Colombia (305kb pdf), prepared by Orazio Attanasio, Murtaza Syed and Marcos Vera-Hernandez, The Institute for Fiscal Studies Briefing Note No. 44, 2004
| Country | Colombia | Program Name | Subsidio Condicionado a la Asistencia Escolar–Bogotá | Year started | 2005 (pilot program) | Status | Active | Targeting | | - target population | Poor students in grades 6–11 | - targeting method | Proxy means testing | - coverage | 10,000 beneficiaries | - incidence | n.a. | Household Benefits | | - benefit structure | 3 types of transfers: $15 per month conditional on attendance $10 per month to the household and approximately $50 ($5 a month for 10 months) at the end of the academic year $10 per month and $240 at the end of secondary school, conditional on completion
| - payee | Student | - payment method | Through bank account with associated debit card | - payment frequency | Bimonthly | - duration | As long as eligible | - additional benefits | None | Conditions | | - health | None | - education | School attendance and/or completion, depending on the type of transfer tested (see benefit structure) | - other | None | - verification of compliance–method | Students’ principals report attendance/completion information to the Secretary of Education for the City of Bogotá | - verification of compliance–frequency | Bimonthly | - compliance statistics | n.a. | Program Administration | | - institutional arrangement | Secretary of Education for the City of Bogotá | - program costs | n.a. |
Country Context | | General | | - population (total) | 45.6 million (2006) | - GDP per capita (PPP, 2005 $) | $6,181 (2006) | - poverty headcount ratio at $2/day | 17.8% (2003) | Education | | - net enrollment in primary level | 88.5% total (2006)
88.4% for girls, 88.6% for boys | - net enrollment in secondary level | 64.9% total (2006)
68.5% for girls, 61.5% for boys | Health | | - prevalence of child malnutrition (stunting) | 12% (2005) | - births attended by skilled health staff | 86.4% (2000) |
Source: Fiszbein A. and N. Schady (2009). Conditional Cash Transfers: Reducing Present and Future Poverty. Policy Research Report World Bank. |
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