Report on findings from the impact evaluation of Program Keluarga Harapan (PKH)

• by Babur Wasim, Astri Sri Sulastri, Agnes Salyanty, Karthick Morchan and TVS Ravi Kumar
• Jul 26, 2019
• 1 min
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MSC did an impact evaluation of the PKH conditional cash transfer program, one of the largest social assistance programs in Indonesia and managed by the Ministry of Social Affairs.

MSC as part of its MoU with the Ministry of Social Affairs conducted an impact evaluation and operations assessment of the PKH conditional cash transfer program. PKH is one of the largest social assistance programs of the government of Indonesia and has been operational since 2007.

The objective of this study was to give a snapshot of the implementation of the program and to evaluate the outcomes of key health-seeking and education indicators of beneficiaries. MSC adopted a modified Regression Discontinuity Design to measure the outcomes in the absence of baseline evaluation data.

The primary data was collected in 15 provinces across 60 sub-districts. The sample consisted of 1467 beneficiaries of PKH, who formed the treatment group and 1437 non-beneficiaries of PKH, who formed the control group of the study.

Please see Operations assessment and impact evaluation of Program Keluarga Harapan (PKH)