Poverty and social protection

OPM has extensive experience in designing, implementing and evaluating social protection programmes, underpinned by technical expertise in rigorous poverty monitoring and analysis in national policy-making, planning and budgeting.

The poverty and social protection team works closely with the Statistics and Social Development portfolios.

Our services include:

Poverty measurement and analysis
  • Poverty measurement
  • Poverty research and analysis
  • Poverty monitoring
Poverty and social protection policy, strategy and financing
  • Mapping of existing policies (sector reviews)
  • Supporting the development of poverty reduction strategy papers (PRSPs) and social protection strategies
  • Budgeting for poverty reduction and social protection policy and strategy
  • Social protection sector reform
Social protection programme design, implementation and evaluation
  • Scoping of new interventions (diagnostic analysis, costing and micro-simulation)
  • Design of national programmes (targeting, poverty impact, administrative and political feasibility)
  • Programme implementation (administrative systems, training and M&E)
  • Independent external evaluation (rigorous impact evaluation, systems & costing reviews)