Bridging the Targeting Gap : Assessing Humanitarian Beneficiaries’ Likely Eligibility for Social Protection in Iraq
In Iraq, the Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance programs have been instrumental in reaching the households most affected by the conflict with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in areas where the coverage of the government’s social safety net (SSN...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2022
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099255106172269568/IDU08944aa9c014e10467b0a196020a9f6950a59 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37570 |
| Summary: | In Iraq, the Multi-Purpose Cash
Assistance programs have been instrumental in reaching the
households most affected by the conflict with the Islamic
State of Iraq and the Levant in areas where the coverage of
the government’s social safety net (SSN) programs remain
limited. In the evolving context, however, short-term
Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance programs will require eventual
integration in some form with the government’s social safety
net programs to continue reaching vulnerable households
affected by the conflict. As an initial step, this paper
proposes an analytical pseudo-proxy-means test (PPMT) tool
to bridge the targeting differences between the government’s
cash transfer program and the humanitarian Multi-Purpose
Cash Assistance programs. Using the common proxies between
the cash transfer targeting formulas of the humanitarian
agencies and the government, the pseudo-proxy-means test
provides each Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance beneficiary’s
probability of being eligible for the government’s cash
transfer program under different expansion scenarios. When
applied to the existing humanitarian beneficiary database,
the results of the pseudo-proxy-means test tool suggest the
potential for both significant referral numbers and a
sequenced referral strategy. |
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