In last week’s edition of our Monday Opinion, I relied on a study conducted by the Centre for Trade Policy and Development (CTPD) with support from Save the Children in 2020 to highlight some inherent challenges facing the social cash transfer program and made an attempt to prescribe plausible solutions. I motivated the discussion by an argument which exemplified the perpetual pervasiveness and intractability of poverty in Zambia, while placing social protection as a competent alleviation mechanism that government should exploit amid reforms to rebuild the economy.