Project

Targeting Options for Social Protection in Zambia

Client

CARE International

Year

2008

Description

Following on Kimetrica’s study of the targeting of cash-based social protection projects in Zambia, Kimetrica was contracted to develop targeting models and tools and conduct a training of Government of Zambia technical staff in targeting methods.    The project included the following:

• Development and testing of a model for targeting that provided comparable measures of targeting accuracy, cost-efficiency.
• Assessing patterns of poverty among all groups in the sample areas, with some attention placed on the elderly and children.
• Analysis of baseline data for select districts and providing a narrative report with the key findings together with detailed tabulations on the characteristics of key benchmarks (including education, health and other possible impact variables)
• Analysis of the effects of different definitions of elderly and combinations of targeting approaches – e.g., household head, not household head, different age cut offs, other characterisations of the elderly and the households in which they live.
• Assessing the costs and benefits of the effect of differing intervention scales based on household size and other characteristics.
• Additional research on Community Based Targeting (CBT) methodologies comparing the methods employed in Zambia and other experiences / methods used in other countries.   The research included the breakdown of costs and impact models for the different approaches to identify key best practices and trade offs with different methods.
• Training in evaluation of targeting for a select group of public officials using practical examples from Zambia and including a mixture of classroom training and computerised training. A computerised training tool, developed by Kimetrica, was used to allow participants to see the effects of changing key cost and impact assumptions.