in ghana and burkina faso the cash transfer roughly entirely offsets the effects of the crisis on school participation and child labour while cameroon has negligible effects as crisis impacts there were already negligible in this dimension as we put no limits on the number of beneficiary children living in the same poor household it follows that a cash transfer targeted to children is a progressive policy response as households with more children which are usually poorer benefit proportionately more only ghana may be in a position to rapidly implement a cash transfer programme to respond to the crisis as it may expand the existing livelihood empowerment against poverty leap programme