these provide cash to households conditioned on their investment in their children s education health and nutrition in most cases ccts are channelled through women heads of households who are then responsible for compliance with the conditionalities the conditionalities often called coresponsibilities refer to activities such as taking children for vaccinations and health checkups andor ensuring children s attendance at school in most cases noncompliance with these requirements is penalizedsanctions range from warnings and temporary loss of benefits to permanent exclusion from the programme