How Can Vulnerable Internally Displaced Persons Be Transitioned from Humanitarian Assistance to Social Protection? : Evidence from Iraq
Aligning the short-term humanitarian assistance system with the government social protection system as a possible long-term solution for the displaced population is well discussed in the literature. However, there is limited evidence on how this al...
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okr-10986-375922022-06-25T05:10:38Z How Can Vulnerable Internally Displaced Persons Be Transitioned from Humanitarian Assistance to Social Protection? : Evidence from Iraq Obi, Chinedu Temple Phadera, Lokendra Wai-Poi, Matthew Leape, Virginia Fox, Gabrielle SOCIAL PROTECTION PROXY-MEANS TESTS HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE CASH TRANSFER INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS MULTI-PURPOSE CASH ASSISTANCE CASH TRANSFER PROGRAM REVIEW CASH ASSISTANCE TO DISPLACED PEOPLE GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE BENEFIT ALIGNMENT Aligning the short-term humanitarian assistance system with the government social protection system as a possible long-term solution for the displaced population is well discussed in the literature. However, there is limited evidence on how this alignment is applied in a real-world setting. Using field-test data, this paper documents the eligibility of the humanitarian Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance beneficiaries for the government’s poverty-targeted cash transfer program in Iraq. It does so by using two possible approaches —a probabilistic pseudo-proxy-means test, which is based on a limited number of overlapping variables between the targeting models of the humanitarian and government support systems and is designed to be applied on the existing database, and a new data collection with complete sets of variables from the targeting models of the two systems. The paper finds that a significant number of households that qualify for the humanitarian Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance program are eligible for the government’s cash transfer program. While the referral accuracy of the pseudo-proxy-means tests model is high, it is likely to leave out some eligible households. In additions to identifying the cross-eligibility with certainty, collecting new data may elicit important insight related to willingness to be referred. The choice between electing to collect new data or relying on the pseudo-proxy-means tests and using existing data comes with important trade-offs and will depend on the capacity, budget, and appetite for the uncertainty of eligibility. 2022-06-24T16:40:45Z 2022-06-24T16:40:45Z 2022-06 Working Papers http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099523406212233544/IDU0490e4323084e104adf08c7b02ee3f7cd869d http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37592 English Policy Research Working Papers;10095 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Iraq |
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SOCIAL PROTECTION PROXY-MEANS TESTS HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE CASH TRANSFER INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS MULTI-PURPOSE CASH ASSISTANCE CASH TRANSFER PROGRAM REVIEW CASH ASSISTANCE TO DISPLACED PEOPLE GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE BENEFIT ALIGNMENT |
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SOCIAL PROTECTION PROXY-MEANS TESTS HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE CASH TRANSFER INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS MULTI-PURPOSE CASH ASSISTANCE CASH TRANSFER PROGRAM REVIEW CASH ASSISTANCE TO DISPLACED PEOPLE GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE BENEFIT ALIGNMENT Obi, Chinedu Temple Phadera, Lokendra Wai-Poi, Matthew Leape, Virginia Fox, Gabrielle How Can Vulnerable Internally Displaced Persons Be Transitioned from Humanitarian Assistance to Social Protection? : Evidence from Iraq |
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Aligning the short-term humanitarian
assistance system with the government social protection
system as a possible long-term solution for the displaced
population is well discussed in the literature. However,
there is limited evidence on how this alignment is applied
in a real-world setting. Using field-test data, this paper
documents the eligibility of the humanitarian Multi-Purpose
Cash Assistance beneficiaries for the government’s
poverty-targeted cash transfer program in Iraq. It does so
by using two possible approaches —a probabilistic
pseudo-proxy-means test, which is based on a limited number
of overlapping variables between the targeting models of the
humanitarian and government support systems and is designed
to be applied on the existing database, and a new data
collection with complete sets of variables from the
targeting models of the two systems. The paper finds that a
significant number of households that qualify for the
humanitarian Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance program are
eligible for the government’s cash transfer program. While
the referral accuracy of the pseudo-proxy-means tests model
is high, it is likely to leave out some eligible households.
In additions to identifying the cross-eligibility with
certainty, collecting new data may elicit important insight
related to willingness to be referred. The choice between
electing to collect new data or relying on the
pseudo-proxy-means tests and using existing data comes with
important trade-offs and will depend on the capacity,
budget, and appetite for the uncertainty of eligibility. |
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Obi, Chinedu Temple Phadera, Lokendra Wai-Poi, Matthew Leape, Virginia Fox, Gabrielle |
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Obi, Chinedu Temple Phadera, Lokendra Wai-Poi, Matthew Leape, Virginia Fox, Gabrielle |
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How Can Vulnerable Internally Displaced Persons Be Transitioned from Humanitarian Assistance to Social Protection? : Evidence from Iraq |
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How Can Vulnerable Internally Displaced Persons Be Transitioned from Humanitarian Assistance to Social Protection? : Evidence from Iraq |
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How Can Vulnerable Internally Displaced Persons Be Transitioned from Humanitarian Assistance to Social Protection? : Evidence from Iraq |
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How Can Vulnerable Internally Displaced Persons Be Transitioned from Humanitarian Assistance to Social Protection? : Evidence from Iraq |
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How Can Vulnerable Internally Displaced Persons Be Transitioned from Humanitarian Assistance to Social Protection? : Evidence from Iraq |
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how can vulnerable internally displaced persons be transitioned from humanitarian assistance to social protection? : evidence from iraq |
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