Many methodologies exist for dividing a population into those who are classified as eligible
for social transfers and those who are ineligible. Popular targeting mechanisms include …

Poverty remains a pervasive and complex phenomenon in Sub-Saharan Africa. Part of the
agenda in recent years to tackle poverty in Africa has been the launching of social safety …

Adolescents are the only age group with growing AIDS-related morbidity and mortality in
Eastern and Southern Africa, making HIV prevention research among this population an …

Targeting as a mechanism for allocating scarce public resources efficiently and equitably
has recently come under sustained attack, for both pragmatic reasons–the apparent …

Identifying and selecting poor households with efficient targeting methods is essential for
effective poverty alleviation programs. This paper assesses the ex-post performance of two …

Whether social transfers should be targeted or universal is an unsolved debate particularly
relevant for the implementation of social protection schemes in developing countries. While …

In 2017 the government of Kenya transformed its poverty-targeted older persons cash
transfer into a '70-plus' social pension. While the literature suggests that a switch from …

Targeting is a much, if not the most, contested element of social protection policymaking,
programme design and implementation. In debates and contestations, targeting and …

This report offers a brief overview of social protection within the current development
discourse with reference to Low Income Countries (LICs). The report has the objective of …

Community-based targeting is frequently used in low-income countries to identify the poor.
Yet evidence about its performance is inconclusive and factors of success are understudied …