Conditional Cash Transfer Programs and Rural Development in El Salvador.” In Protection, Production, Promotion: Exploring Synergies between Social Protection and Productive Development in Latin America

Margarita Beneke de Sanfeliú, Amy Ángel, and Mauricio Arturo Shi

ABSTRACT

This study seeks to identify synergies and complementarities between conditional cash transfer programs (CCTs) and productive projects (or rural development programs, RD), such as those promoted by IFAD, in order to better understand how households react to intervention by both programs simultaneously, compared to participation in only one program or none at all, in terms of key variables such as productive factors, poverty reduction, gender equality and financial inclusion. If these synergies are identified, rural development projects could be made more effective in terms of poverty reduction, and CCT programs would have better graduation strategies.