 My story of change my story of change my story of change my story of change One of the challenges that we face as a country is being able to generate data We've traditionally relied on primary data collection and this is quite expensive One of the things that we usually face with the government is they require evidence to be provided quickly because some of these decisions are made in real time and They cannot wait for two three years before studies are done One research project that we've worked with wider on is the cash plus project The government provides cash grants or transfers to the poorest one million households in the country And the work with wider was to generate evidence on the impact of adding other programs Programs that look at education. So we have a keeping girls in school program cash grants for businesses But also train policymakers and help them appreciate how this model can be used and show the impact of Implementing an integrated social protection system My story of change is firstly the evidence that we built Resulted in cash transfers being increased to get more impact on poverty reduction We basically needed to improve the quality of the transfers. That is something that we've done The government has as a result of our work on the cash plus Progressively move to provide girls not just free education at secondary school level, but also Free education at tertiary school level these police changes were adopted at the highest level of government Which is our cabinet and this program has now been accepted and adopted as the correct way of Implementing our social protection programs