During her 2023 state of the region address, //Karas region governor Aletha Fredrick announced that the //Karas region had been selected as a beneficiary of the Harambee cash grant.
This has been wrongly dubbed a modified/conditional basic income grant (CBIG) by the Ministry of Gender Equality, Poverty Eradication and Social Welfare because of pressure from the BIG movement.
BIG is conceptually a universal/unconditional grant whereby people don’t have to jump through hoops to prove they are deserving poor. The term should not be confused with conditional/means-tested and targeted grants that benefit a few individuals or households.At present, the Harambee cash […]
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