Abstract:
The Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme is a social protection
measure that employs conditional cash transfer as a means of investing in human development to
benefit the poor. LEAP includes conditionalities, which are intended to encourage poor
households to prioritize the human capital development of the beneficiaries. This study examined
compliance with the conditionality that LEAP beneficiary households have to register with the
National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). The study involved primary data collection with 62
respondents in four communities of the Yilo Krobo District. The data was subjected to regression
analysis to determine the relationship between NHIS compliance among low income (extremely
poor) households and the size of household, age of household head and education of household
head (independent). NHIS registration compliance was the dependent variable. Results from
Pearson Correlation analysis showed that there exist no significant correlation between NHIS
compliance and age of household head, and education of household head. However, there existed
a positive relationship between size of household and NHIS enrolment compliance.
