Authors : Kazembe Zyambo; Ndalama L. P.

Volume/Issue : Volume 10 - 2025, Issue 10 - October

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Abstract : Governments do influence the political process through their control over resources and shape public opinion. Indeed, the government of Zambia has been controlling the Social Cash Transfer programme through the Ministry of Community and Development & Social Services not as a political manipulation tool. The view that suggests that the Social Cash Transfer programme is a political manipulation tool for the ruling party is not empirically established by this study. Instead, it established that the Social Cash Transfer programme is a social framework within which government under the Ministry of Community Development and Social Services helps the vulnerable population and the programme was pioneered in Mexico in early 1990s. The research methodology was a descriptive qualitative research design which is crucial in social sciences, education, healthcare and business research. Descriptive qualitative describes the characteristics, behaviors, or phenomena as they exist without influencing or manipulating the study environment. Hence this study has provided a snapshot data of that strongly support that Social Cash Transfer programme is not a political management tool to manipulate the vulnerable population but an essential vehicle for protecting the vulnerable population in Zambia and elsewhere in the global. Inclusions, the study discovered that Social Cash Transfer is a global vehicle that has created significant and positive impact among the vulnerable population worldwide. Since Social Cash Transfer is not an island , it is being controlled by the government agency not a political organ in Zambia and it will remain a government programmer for ever because of it positive on the need population worldwide.

Keywords : Social Cash Transfer, Vulnerable Population, Political Manipulation Tool, Government.

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