Project

Independent Monitoring and Evaluation Study for CARE Zambia

Client

CARE International

Year

2007

Description

Study of the targeting of cash-based social protection projects to inform scaling up activities in Zambia.The study is intended to determine the costs and accuracy of alternative targeting approaches in Zambia and simulate the effects of scaling-up cash-based social protection activities. The work includes a realistic cost-benefit estimate of the alternative targeting mechanisms under different funding scenarios. In addition to the development of decision models, the project relies on a Kimetrica directed household survey of over 2,000 households in CARE's target districts.

Our staff, who are experts in social protection programmes, targeting and field surveys, have developed, under this project, a simulation tool to provide national and sub-national estimates of the total cost, targeting accuracy and targeting efficiency based on different funding and political scenarios. The model is initialized on a combination of primary and secondary information. Running in MS Excel, the tool is intended to help CARE and its partner's better roll-out and manage social protection initiatives.