Kenya OVC-CT Programme Operational and Impact Evaluation

- If two or more child caregivers have the same age, then the ranking is done by thenumber of OVCs, orphans and disabled household members.Finally, a ranked list of eligible households for each programme location was sent back tocommunities for a final check of eligibility and level of vulnerability. Selected households were theninvited to attend the enrolment event and formally enrol as recipients of the programme.The baseline survey household questionnaire recorded the same information as was used by theprogramme to determine eligibility. Therefore it was possible to classify every household in thesurvey as either eligible or ineligible for the programme, based on what was reported in thesurvey. 25 Following the terminology used by the programme, a household is defined as ‘eligible’ ifit satisfies the eligibility criteria outlined above.The survey also collected information on the consumption-expenditure of households, which isused to define whether households are (income) poor. The issue of whether the targeting criteria,(a) as applied and (b) if correctly applied, succeed in identifying the poorest OVC households cantherefore be addressed in the analysis.Key questions:Do the programme’s targeting criteria effectively target poor OVC households?Are these targeting criteria being appropriately implemented in the recipient selection process?Is the net effect that the programme is successful in selecting poor OVC households?3.4 Coverage and leakage – are the poorest OVC households beingselected?The OVC-CT programme’s target population are the most vulnerable OVC households. Coverageis measured as the proportion of the target population that is receiving transfers. Leakage occurswhen cash transfers are received by households that are not in the target population. A standardmeasure of leakage is therefore the proportion of recipients who are not part of the targetpopulation. Note that this analysis is based on who had been selected as a recipient at the time ofthe baseline. No cash had been paid to any households at that time, and the term ‘leakage’ doesnot imply that money was being diverted: it simply compares who had been selected to benefitfrom the programme with the target group who should benefit.Therefore, in relation to diagram below, leakage and coverage are defined as follows:leakage =C×100B + C25 Note that due to missing data a small number of sampled households (less than 1%) could not beclassified as eligible/ineligible.22