Objectives

• promote the investment in human capital for poverty reduction through
  • provision of additional resources to larger and poor families with children and
  • progress towards the achievement of Universal Primary Education

Conditionalities

• education: school attendance of at least 80% of classes and passing the final examination

Transfer size

• US$3.50 per month for one child or US$6 if they have two or more children of school age enrolled and attending school

Frequency of transfer

• monthly

Target population

• chronically and extremely poor families with children aged 5-12 years (initially all existing beneficiaries of Food Support Program with at least one child of primary school age)

• in pilot phase 10% of Food Support Program beneficiary families (125,000 households)

• US$7 million for fiscal year 2005-2006 for the pilot

• Pakistan Bait-u-Mal (under Ministry of Social Welfare and Special Education)