Effectively Targeting Anti-Poverty Programs: Community Treatment

Country:

Indonesia

Notice/Contract Number:

wb:ec100018744

Publication Date:

Sept 4, 2008

Deadline:

Sept 17, 2008

Buyer:

World Bank Trust Funds

Original Language:

English

Address:

Lina Marliani
World Bank
Gedung Bursa Efek Indonesia, Tower 2, 12th floor
Jakarta
Indonesia

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Web Site:

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Assignment Overview

Assignment Title: Effectively Targeting Anti-Poverty Programs: Community Treatment

Assignment Country: Indonesia

Assignment Description

Targeting social transfers to the poor has become a priority in many countries in the last two decades as a response to fiscal constraints and policy changes to improve effectiveness of programs in reducing poverty. The Indonesian government has launched several large scale anti-poverty programs over the past few years that have helped to reduce poverty, such as the Unconditional Cash Transfer (UCT) and Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) and the Health Insurance programmes (Askeskin). Improving targeting in these programs, to ensure that limited program resources reach the poor instead of being channeled to non-poor households, remains an ongoing challenge to ensure the efficiency of these programs. Acknowledging the need to improve targeting performance, World Bank office Jakarta together with the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA is conducting study in exploring ways to devise a better household targeting system. This research will measure the costs and benefits associated with a variety of different methods of identifying poor households. There are three methods that we will conduct: 1) PMT (Proxy Means Testing) method; 2) “Community method” where a listing of poor households is made during community meetings led by community facilitators; 3) “Hybrid methods” that involve both community facilitators and PMT method. This assignment is concerned with these latter two poverty targeting methods (“community method” and “hybrid method”) that involve the community facilitators in the targeting process.

Funding Source:

The World Bank intends to finance the assignment/services described below under a trust fund from the POVERTY REDUCTION THROUGH STRENGTHENING ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE.

Eligibility:
Eligibility Restrictions apply [Please type list of restrictions]

Individual/Firm Profile:
The consultant will be a firm or consortium.

Submission Requirements:
The World Bank now invites eligible consultants to indicate their interest in providing the services. Interested consultants must provide information indicating that they are qualified to perform the services (brochures, description of similar assignments, experience in similar conditions, availability of appropriate skills among staff, etc.).
Consultants may associate to enhance their qualifications.

Interested consultants are hereby invited to submit expressions of interest.

Expressions of Interest should be submitted, in English, electronically through World Bank Group eConsultant http://www.worldbank.org/wbgeconsultant.

Notes:
Consultants will be selected in accordance with the procedures set out in the current edition of the World Bank's Guidelines: Selection and Employment of Consultants by World Bank Borrowers.

Selection and contracting will normally be made from responses to this notification. The consultant will be selected from a shortlist, subject to availability of funding.

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Lina Marliani

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