Dear Reader,
Dear colleagues,
according to Maki Kato, head of UNICEF’s social policy team in Cambodia, ‘identification of beneficiaries is the hardest part of any social assistance programme’. From her perspective, the IDPoor approach has made it considerably easier to plan and roll out social protection programmes targeting poor families.
The latest GHPC study ‘Leave no one behind: Insights from Cambodia’s national poverty identification system’ is the story of IDPoor’s evolution, of the challenges it faced and of the insights Cambodian and German partners generated as they tackled them.
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Your editorial team
Karolina Luczak Santana & Anna von Roenne
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Approximately every fifth Cambodians lives in poverty. By certain measures, up to 50% of the population are either poor or vulnerable to becoming poor. This case study describes the evolution of Cambodia’s IDPoor programme, now more than a decade old, and the insights it offers into sustainable poverty identification in a lower-middle-income country.
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