Cash transfers (CTs) are increasingly high on the agenda of governments and development partners in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). While CTs have shown to be one of the most potent social policies to reduce poverty and improve human capital, concerns have been raised about their sustainability. This paper examines the mechanisms of, enablers of, and barriers to CT sustainability. Realist qualitative methods were employed to interview policymakers, development partners, and program managers (N = 32), as well as program beneficiaries (N = 93) in Ghana. The data were analyzed using a thematic framework approach. The findings show that enablers of CT sustainability include program institutionalization, availability of a functional exit strategy, and networking of social programs around beneficiary households. CTs' mechanisms of sustainability were shared vision and formalization of roles of service providers, program acceptability and buy-in, and productive inclusion. Key barriers to CT sustainability were political prioritization and ownership of the program, and weak intersectoral collaboration. From the analyses, we propose a conceptual framework which can be used to plan for CT sustainability.

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现金转移计划的可持续性：现实案例研究

现金转移支付 (CT) 在低收入和中等收入国家 (LMIC) 的政府和发展伙伴的议程中越来越重要。虽然 CT 已被证明是减少贫困和改善人力资本最有效的社会政策之一，但人们对其可持续性提出了担忧。本文研究了 CT 可持续性的机制、推动因素和障碍。采用现实主义定性方法采访政策制定者、发展合作伙伴和项目经理（N  = 32），以及项目受益人（N = 93) 在加纳。使用主题框架方法分析数据。调查结果表明，CT 可持续性的推动因素包括项目制度化、功能性退出策略的可用性以及围绕受益家庭的社会项目网络。CT 的可持续性机制是服务提供者角色的共同愿景和正式化、项目可接受性和支持以及生产性包容。CT 可持续性的主要障碍是项目的政治优先次序和所有权，以及部门间合作薄弱。从分析中，我们提出了一个概念框架，可用于规划 CT 的可持续性。