Do Grants to Communities Lead to Better Health and Education?

Conditional cash transfer programs have proven to be an effective tool for helping reduce poverty. As use of such programs grows, development experts and policymakers are considering how to successfully promote better health and education in large countries with diverse and often remote communities. In some cases, they are rethinking traditional cash transfer programs to create grant programs that target communities instead of families. One question is whether linking grants to performance, similar to conditional cash transfer programs, can promote better results than giving grants that are not performance-tied.