This document provides practical advice and guidance to practitioners in the process of selecting beneficiaries, to decide the most coherent, accountable, and ‘good enough’ approach for targeting according to the context and situation. It provides a rationale to find a balance between the need for rapid response with the desire to minimize errors in dynamic and fast-changing environments, considering programming constraints.

The document includes guidance for targeting in urban and rural contexts, tips and examples, and a review of targeting approaches, indicators, main stakeholders in urban contexts, adaptation to COVID-19 response, etc. In addition, it includes tools to be used during the process.

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TOOL 1: Summary of pros and cons of each targeting approach

TOOL 2.1: Targeting criteria (indicators) on multi-sectoral programmes

TOOL 2.2: Targeting criteria for sector-specific interventions (food security and livelihoods, shelter and wash, education, specialized protection, counselling and legal assistance interventions)

TOOL 3: Targeting mechanisms

TOOL 4: Geographic vulnerability indicators

TOOL 5: Implementing a scorecard targeting mechanism

Files: Guidance - Targeting in urban and rural contexts_EN | Tools - Targeting in urban and rural contexts_EN |

• Livelihoods Objectives: Food Security and Nutrition, Access to Market and Services, Economic Security,
• Cross-cutting themes: rural, urban, Thematic guidelines,
• All: rural, urban, Thematic guidelines,
• Organization: Livelihoods Resource Centre
• Year of publication: 2020