Presentation @ SEEP Annual Conference Washington, November 2013

1. Targeting and partnerships: lessons
from TERINTAMBWE PROGRAMME
Graduation Model
Burundi (2012-2015)
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2. CIBITOKE
KIRUNDO
TERINTAMBWE
PROGRAMME
2012-2015
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3. 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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4. 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
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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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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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%
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
27.8
29.9
Household Dietary Diversity scores
(maximum=12)
(WHO standard)

10. ONE FAMILY LIFE STORY
42-year old woman head of household
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11. 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
areas
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12. ASSESSING SUSTAINABILITY of RESULTS
Embedded 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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13. 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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14. 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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