Beneficiary Development Programs (BD)

Conceptual framework and International experience Rogelio Gomez Hermosillo M

Outline
! " Conceptual framework: What are Beneficiary Development Programs (BD)? ! " Rationale: Why BD in SSN? ! " Goals and aims of BD ! " Strategy: How to design effective BD? ! " Execution: How to implement efficient BD? ! " Some lessons to be considered

What are BD in SSN

! " BD may be used as a broad term. It may include all dimensions of human and social development: education, health, income generation, housing, access to services, active citizenship and voice: well being. ! " BD in SSN is more specific in scope and reach: It is focused in promoting improvements in basic social conditions of beneficiaries through adequate and available interventions ! " Key question are: Which are those adequate and available interventions? And, how to make them accesible to beneficiaries.

Three key concepts in BD

Adequate interventions Promotion
Improve basic social conditions of B

Available interventions

Why BD in SSN
! " Social assistance through cash transfers supports better consumption (complements income for poor HH) but do not modify HH or individuals conditions ! " Social assistance for persons with potential should be temporary. It is only permanent for persons with disability, elderly of other impeding conditions. ! " New approaches to social assistance are focusing in protection + promotion + prevention. Meaning, interventions should be redesigned and enhanced to be more effective and have greater impact on poverty and its effects (malnutrition, poor education, precarious income)

Aims and Goals of BD

Aims Goals
" Decrease malnutrition " Improve education advancement and completion (secondary education)

Human capital or HD Income Generation Reduce vulnerability

" Improve employability for youth and able working adults " Develop productivity of working adults

" Unemployment pensions " Health insurance (access to 2nd and 3rd level health services)

Strategy: How

to design effective BD?

3 key concepts: Promote Adequate Available (interventions) 1." Promotion is done through: " Incentives (cash transfers conditioned on some activities). " Coordination of service provision (interventions) " Targeting programs to beneficiaries " Channeling beneficiaries to programs " Orientation and counselling

These options may be complementary according to context

Strategy: How

to design effective BD?

(2)

Adequate and Available interventions 2. Adequate interventions are: " Aligned to aims and goals (Human Development, income generation, reduction of vulnerability) " Based on PROFILES. Families have different conditions (not only in income), e.g. Access to land, education of head of HH, disability " Life-cycle approach (infants and children U5, children, adolescents and youth, women, adults, elderly) " National priorities

Strategy: How

to design effective BD?

(3)

Adequate and Available interventions 3. Available interventions are: " Public interventions operational in field (villages) " Coverage and scale according to target population (profiles) " Capacity to deliver " Sustainable in medium and long term

Execution: How to implement effective BD?

! " Develop profile of beneficiaries with databases in Registry (different conditions of families and individuals) ! " Identify evidence based priorities. National and Local (3 Governorates) ! " Develop inventory of options at National and for the 3 Governorates (use adequacy and availability checklist) ! " Design pilots to learn. Main test is about how to connect beneficiaries with programmes with efficiency ! " Set the flow of big scale operations to test in pilot

Some international examples

These are examples, not recommendations for immediate action: ! " Transformation of Cash Transfer Programmes into Conditional Cash Transfer Programmes with Human Development aim and goals: nutrition / health and education outcomes through services provided by MoE and MoPHP ! " Connecting youth with education with active employment programmes (training, job intermediation, soft skills development) Cash transfer programmes provide scholarship or transfers and Employment Programmes deliver these employability services

Some lessons to be considered

! " Main challenge is how to set up BD in countries without adequate and effective interventions. Look for best option adequate and available ! " Substitution is not an option. By mandate, strategy and institucional capacity, SWF should not provide or develop the interventions or programmes ! " Small projects (retail approach) is not an option for BD in big scale SSN as SWF. This is a temptation that should be avoided. Some pilots are not option. ! " Invest and trust in your strengths: Targeting and profiling HH, cash transfer delivery, coverage, scale and reach

Thank you!
Rogelio Gomez Hermosillo M gomezh.rogelio@gmail.com WB Consultant February 11, 2014