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Targeting and partnerships: lessons from TERINTAMBWE PROGRAMME

Graduation ModelBurundi (2012-2015)

TERINTAMBWE PROGRAMME

2012-2015

A pathway out of poverty

KIRUNDOCIBITOKE

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UNDERSTANDING EXTREME POVERTY CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS

Contextual Analysis using Concern framework: How Concern Understand Extreme Poverty (HCUEP)

Functionally landless but capable to work, referred to as Ntahonikora

Functionally landless with no labour capacity who depend completely on external help, referred to as Aboro

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GEOGRAPHIC AND COMMUNITY BASED TARGETING

Meetings with stakeholders at provincial and communal level: Community representatives, administrators, local leaders, reps of technical services (Health, Education, Agriculture), local Community Based Organisations

Presentation of the programme Wealth Ranking of communes and then collines Selection of 5 Communes and 59 Collines Concentration of resources in a smaller area to ensure efficiency

and increase multiplier effects

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COMPOSITION OF TARGETING COMMITTEES

Chief of colline Colline Development Committee representatives Community leader (where existing and consensual) Local council member in charge of Gender Based Violence Community Health Worker Reps of minority groups (Batwa) Concern Case Manager at colline level

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TARGETING CRITERIA

Functionally landless

Capable to work (live on daily occasional labour)

Specific targeting towards women-headed households, Batwa families, HIV and AIDS affected and youth-headed households

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TARGETING PROCEDURE

Preliminary list drawn by each Committee 2,600 (2,000 beneficiaries + 600 for control group)

Verification by Concern staff and representatives of the committees

70 out of 2,600 (less than 3%) had to be changed during verification

All households selected participated to the baseline survey completed using Digital Data Gathering devices

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BASELINE RESULT RELATED TO TARGETING

‘Information from specific sections of the survey (value of assets, income and land size) was used to verify that well-off households were not introduced as part of the programme. Around 10 outliers were identified from the data (Baseline report, IDS, 2013)

Information was verified further and all 2,600 households were retained as beneficiaries

Households members 53% women 47% Men. Women headed Households 39%

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BASELINE RESULTS

Cibitoke Kirundo

Asset Value BIF 54,075 (US$ 35)

BIF 36,875 (US$ 24)

Total monthly household income (median) BIF 52,800(US$ 34)

BIF 42,800(US$ 27)

Household Land ownership 0.07 ha (0.17 acre)

0.04 ha (0.1 acre)

% Households with savings 2.8% 1.4%

Household Dietary Diversity scores (maximum=12)

2.7 1.9

Child Dietary Diversity scores (maximum=18) 2.6 2.3

% Households with a seriously leaking roof 54.4 80.3

% Households with hygienic sanitation facility (WHO standard)

27.8 29.9

ONE FAMILY LIFE STORY 42-year old woman head of household

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PARTNERSHIP for INFLUENCE

Advocacy on Graduation and Social Protection Formal partnership with Ministry of National Solidarity and Ministry of

Civil Service and Social Security Informal partnership with UNICEF, WORLD BANK and ILO

Linking with Private sector Formal partnership with Mobile Phone company ECONET for cash

transfer (introducing new services for rural poor)

Objectives: to influence the formulation on national social protection strategy and programmes and expand services in rural

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ASSESSING SUSTAINABILITY of RESULTSEmbedded Operations Research

Randomized control trial (2,000 participant and 600 control HHs) Quantitative and Qualitative Baseline in 2012 Monthly Monitoring Quantitative and Qualitative end line in 2015 Follow up in 2016 focusing on sustainable graduation

Objectives: 1.Identify robust indicators of resilience going beyond threshold indicators &2. Assessing the impact of coaching and mentoring and sustainability of impact

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LESSONS LEARNT - POSITIVES

Contextual Analysis bringing out clear characteristics of extreme poverty in the specific context is essential and needs to be done before the targeting process

Very low level of mistakes from community based targeting (benefits going to the right group) but it is essential to have a strong verification system and clear targeting criteria

Experience from initial programme implementation suggests that community based targeting is facilitating programme implementation

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LESSONS LEARNT - CHALLENGES

Considerable investment of time and resources (48 Case Managers / 6 supervisors / 1 M&E Officer full time for 10 weeks)

Very limited ‘wrong inclusion’, but exclusion of equally poor, due to resource constraint

Need to develop a strategy for scaling up at national level

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