Kenya OVC-CT Programme Operational and Impact Evaluation

3.5 Decomposing the targeting problem – separating administrationand design effectsThe previous sub-section showed that targeting errors are being caused by both inappropriaterecipient allocations across locations and by difficulties in identifying the poorest OVC households.To better understand the second of these concerns, it is useful to decompose the targetingproblem, into issues of (a) design and (b) administration.Design issues relate to how well the eligibility criteria succeed in pinpointing poor OVChouseholds. If there are large numbers of poor OVC households that do not satisfy the eligibilitycriteria, or large numbers of non-poor OVC households that do, then there will be significanttargeting errors.Administrative issues relate to how successfully the targeting process is implemented. If theeligibility criteria are well designed but not properly implemented then there are likely to besignificant targeting errors. On the other hand, administrative leakage may sometimes result inimproved targeting, particularly if the eligibility criteria have been badly designed. In some cases,for example, communities may ‘bend the rules’ in order to allow poor but ineligible household tobenefit from the programme.EligibleAdministration issuesRecipientsPoor OVCHouseholdsDesign issuesEligibleUndercoverageEligibleandrecipientAdministrativeleakageUndercoveragePoorandeligibleDesignleakage28