Targeting the Poorest: A Solutions for the Poorest Use Case
Targeting and selection of populations based on poverty levels can be a powerful first step to achieving greater social impact in development programs. The multifaceted and contextual nature of poverty often leads to targeting processes that although accurate, are extremely customized for particular areas, making it difficult to compare across projects and geographies and very time consuming, and therefore, costly.
The targeting methodology described here aims to address both these issues in order to demonstrate a process that may be more practical to scale efforts rapidly, without significantly diluting the accuracy of the eventual outcome. It was created as part of a joint project between Grameen Foundation’s Solutions for the Poorest (SfP) program and BASIX India’s The Livelihood School (TLS).
