Targeting Social Protection: How to Reach Those in Need

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00:00 Welcome and opening remarks
04:46 Main findings of the report Revisiting Targeting in Social Assistance
18:10 Advantages and disadvantages of different targeting methods
22:36 Implementation and monitoring: The case of Senegal
29:58 Social registries: The case of Colombia
36:52 The role of technology, big data, and machine learning
44:12 Senegal: Including groups persistently displaced
50:52 Colombia: Including vulnerable groups
56:16 Targeting costs: moderate or manageable?
1:02:24 Legislation in Senegal mandating the use of social registries
1:08:34 The case of Colombia in dynamizing social registries
1:16:01 Closing remarks

  • Targeted social protection interventions can play a valuable role in helping achieve and deliver Universal Social Protection. Targeted programs and universal programs together support broader social policy.
  • Targeting is an effective tool used in social protection to make the most of constrained fiscal space. For a given budget, prioritizing poorer households can produce more progress on reducing poverty and inequality, smoothing income, and other dimensions of welfare such as human capital.
  • There is no single targeting method that fits every situation. Context and policy objectives drive choices. Whether to use methods such as self-targeting, geographic targeting, demographic targeting, or household welfare-based targeting methods must be based on context and capacities.
  • Regardless of the targeting method, robust social protection delivery systems can help: reduce transactions costs or stigma for beneficiaries, minimize inclusion errors, facilitate crisis response, improve access to social assistance, especially for the poorest and most vulnerable populations such as indigenous, migrants, people living with disability and others.
  • Advances in technology—ICT, big data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning—offer the promise of significant improvements in targeting accuracy but are not a panacea. Better data may matter more than greater sophistication in data use. Social protection targeting methods are changing as new data and technology as well as other innovations emerge.

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Jing Guo

The new report highlights the importance of including people from traditionally excluded groups, such as people living in remote areas or people who have been displaced. Ousseynou Diop is sharing examples of how the social protection programs in Senegal supported targeting and inclusion of these groups.
Thu, 03/31/2022 - 08:47
David Stewart

Its interesting the online survey didn’t include the categorical targeting of children as a targeting approach. Pros a) children are more likely to be in poverty, especially large families; b) it can be progressively realized as age ranges covered increase; c) its in line with the WBs human capital approach and children realizing their potential and knock on benefits on economies and intergenerational poverty. It will also be much more administratively feasible than HH welfare-based targeting which requires up-to-date quality data and can promote social cohesion, particularly where geographic targeting may be challenging. Would be interested to hear your thoughts!
Thu, 03/31/2022 - 08:47
BK

How does Targeting work in relation to the urgency of Shock response in cases of emergency situation case COVID 19 example? And how would targeting work when there are disasters or social distancing and lockdowns?
Thu, 03/31/2022 - 08:50
Jing Guo

The new report highlights the importance of including people from traditionally excluded groups, such as people living in remote areas or people who have been displaced. Laura Pabón is sharing examples of how the social protection programs in Colombia supported targeting and inclusion of these groups.
Thu, 03/31/2022 - 08:52
RONJON HANDIQUE

Do social assistance assists in convergence situation of society ?
Thu, 03/31/2022 - 08:53

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