A Health Practitioner’s Handbook and Toolbox for Identifying the Poor and Vulnerable

The handbook is intended to be used by health leaders and practitioners who wish to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their approach to identifying and targeting poor and vulnerable people. It can be used at any stage in this process – from the early design to refining a mature targeting system. Users are encouraged to use the two diagnostics (one on institutional coordination and one on data linkage) to understand where they most need to improve, and then look up and apply the tools associated with those specific areas. All the tools are practical in nature and designed to support real-world implementations (for it was through implementation support that most were created), and are a mix of the general and the highly technical, to support different levels of expertise and experience.