This presentation is part of the programme of the International Seminar "Social Protection, Entrepreneurship and Labour Market Activation: Evidence for Better Policies", organized by the International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG/UNDP) together with Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Colombian Think Tank Fedesarrollo held on September 10-11 at the Ipea Auditorium in Brasilia.

1. What we have learnt about
articulating social protection and
productive development programs?
Key policy implications
Social protection, entrepreneurship and labor
market activation: evidence for better policies
Brasilia, September 10-11, 2014
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2. Conditional Cash Transfers and
Rural Development in Latin America
Social Protection, Entrepreneurship
and Labor Market Activation Seminar
September, 2014

3. Context
• Almost 27-million Latin
American poor homes who
may be receiving support
from the CCT programs. A
significant part of these
families are rural.
• Rural families may be
potential beneficiaries of
CCT’s, Rural Development
projects or both.
• Those who received both
benefits may be
complementing their
results.
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4. Objectives
• To describe and understand the mechanisms (at the
household and community levels) through which there
exist or could exist synergistic effects between rural
development projects and CCT programs.
• To inform policy makers at the national level and
donors/lenders of CCTs and rural development projects,
about the potential for synergistic effects between CCTs
and rural development projects and about alternative
program designs to enhance and exploit them.
• To provide feedback and build capacity within IFAD's
CPMs and country teams, to take greater advantage of
potential synergistic effects between IFAD projects and
CCT programs
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5. The Working
Group
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6. Hypotheses
1. Food security
2. Risk management
3. Social capital
4. Child labor
5. Relationship with the government
6. Gender empowerment
7. Expectations and aspirations
8. Training – formal and informal
9. Information and working capital
10. Environment

7. Social Capital: Organizational development
- Time
- Permanence
- Other assistances
- Pro-resources training
Goal achievements
Aspirations
RD Program New enterprises
Environmental performance
Knowledge application to
new areas or products
Product’s
quality
Better prices
Income
Productive changes
Climate-related
external shocks
Fondo
rotatorio:
Access to FS
Women empowerment
Education
and training
CCTs
Selection
criteria
Graduation
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8. http://www.sinergiasrurales.info
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