The document summarizes Palestine's Cash Transfers Program (CTP), which provides quarterly cash transfers to over 122,000 households and 663,000 individuals with a budget of €130 million per year. The CTP is administered by the Ministry of Social Affairs (MoSA) and uses a Proxy Means Test (PMT) to determine eligibility. The PMT was developed using 2007 data and evaluations found it identifies extreme poor households accurately. Recent developments include establishing beneficiary councils for citizen engagement and improving the grievance system. Moving forward, MoSA aims to update the PMT using 2015 data and develop synergies with other social programs.
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40% of CTP beneficiaries have refugee status.
40% of CTP beneficiaries are Female-Headed HH.
8. Cash Transfers Program
• MoSA started in 2004 designing a poverty
assessment mechanism based on PMT.
• PMT was rolled out in 2010 and 2011.
• Targeting households under extreme
poverty lines as defined by (PCBS).
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Design & Implementation
• MoSA applies PMT(Proxy for adult
equivalent household consumption).
• PMT scores households on poverty
scale.
• Assessment form used by social
workers to collect basic information on
individuals
10. Program Cycle
10
Household
MoSA Regional Office
1. Submit Application
MoSA Database
2. Data entry and
Verifications
List of eligible
beneficiaries
3. Run against
the PMTF
List of Final
eligible
beneficiaries
4. Initial list
Donors
MoF
5. Final List
Local Banks
6. Lunch
Payment
13. • PMTF the CTP’s primary targeting
mechanism, was developed using
the 2007 PECS data and, based on
various evaluations, the model
performed well.
• (PMTF) is highly accurate and
efficient in identifying extreme poor
households (inclusion and
exclusion errors around 20%).
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CTP Characteristics
15. • CTP’s cost-benefit ratio shows that it’s quite efficient
because for each 1.00 NIS spent in transfers by MOSA,
0.66 NIS goes to reducing the extreme poverty gap.
• MOSA will update the PMTF based on the 2015
PECS.
CTP Characteristics
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16. • MoSA has been working on engaging
citizens through the Grievance and Redress
handling mechanism (pilot in 2 regions
Jerusalem and Jenin).
• MoSA established beneficiary councils as
part of outreach in remote areas.
• MoSA launched a series of consultation
meetings with local communities, CSOs.
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Recent Developments
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• Capturing Short term changes in household
economic well-being due to the difficulty in
calculating shock impacts on the household
situation.
Urban Challenges
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Community Nomination for Targeting
Identifying Beneficiaries
Urban Areas
Education
Agencies
civil society
organizations
Municipalitie
s
Health
Agencies
Zakat
committee
Social Protection Networks on Local Level
(12 networks in 11 Governorates):
Nominating
poor
household for
targeting
Cross checking
against PMTF
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Community Nomination for Targeting
Identifying Beneficiaries
Rural Areas
Local
Councils
(Main Partner)
Concerns on
biased-
nomination
Some NGOs
and Charities
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Establishment of Beneficiaries Councils in 3 Pilot Governorates
(Nablus, Qalqelya, Bethlehem)
Councils as feedback channels, a monitoring tool, and social accountability.
Citizen Engagement
29. The Way Forward
• Improve implementation:
–Improve Grievance & Appeal
mechanism
–Improve Monitoring: Ongoing
process based on MIS; Process
evaluation
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• Develop a multi-dimensional poverty definition. This
needs to be reflected into the new PECS by 2016.
• Cleaning the data.
• Develop synergies with non-cash interventions.
•Develop synergies with UNRWA.
Way forward