183 - Collaborative Participant Targeting and Matching Intervention Components to Maximize Cost-Effectiveness in Complex Program Environments

Abstract Information: In complex programs and environments, targeting participants that reflect needs and intended outcomes relative to intervention options is difficult. Intervention targeting should be embodied in the program’s strategy for collective impact and operationalized through a structured, yet adaptable, process. It should use geographic, community, households, and individual criteria together with resource rationalization, collaborative community assessments and action planning especially for programs in fragile environments that have development and humanitarian interventions. This round table will start with a presentation of how USAID’s Nawiri program, operating in Samburu and Turkana counties in Kenya, started with geographic targeting using secondary data and then used participatory community assessments together with an “Impact-Effort” Tool to identify variations of the intervention package NAWIRI would provide and where; these are labeled: Go Deep, Catalyze, Enable, Protect. The presenters will then open discussion about Nawiri’s targeting model and attendees’ experiences with other models.