(Emergency) National Poverty Targeting Programme, E-NPTP

2007

108,012 beneficiary households (456,819 individuals) eligible to receive health and education benefits as of October 2016; e-card food vouchers: 10,008 households (42,883 individuals) as of October 2016 (2); 19,457 students benefited from fee waivers in the 2015-2016 school year, and 11,730 people benefited from subsidised hospital admissions in 2016

Total initial project cost for the ENPTP for 2014–2017: USD213.93 million, of which USD84.9 million from the Government of Lebanon, USD8.2 million from the World Bank (through the Trust Fund for Lebanon Grant); E-card financing for November 2014 to May 2017: total USD21.9 million, of which USD10.8 million from the World Bank, USD7.3 million from the German government, USD3.2 million from UNHCR and USD735,000 from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund; Source of funding: World Bank; Lebanese government; German government

No geographical targeting; however, most extremely poor Lebanese households are located in North Lebanon and Bekaa governorates, where 95 per cent of e-card food vouchers beneficiaries live; five governorates (Caza) account for 90 per cent of the amount redeemed, namely Aakkar, Tripoli, Minyeh-Donneyeh, Baalbeck and Hermel

Extremely poor households based on the national lower poverty line; children

Lebanese households interested in joining the programme are required to contact the nearest SDC and ask to be registered. Applicants are expected to produce necessary documents and agree to be visited by a Social Inspector (SI). The SI then visits the household to gather information to assess its poverty level based on a PMT formula. The test includes questions to assess the applicant’s standard of living, such as their employment status, level of education, marital status, physical ability, housing condition, assets owned and their geographical location. If the score is under a determined threshold that corresponds to the lower poverty line, the household is registered as a beneficiary. The poorest NPTP beneficiaries are eligible for food vouchers

According to the MoSA, once the ranking is established, the database can be used to target different types of social assistance to the neediest and most venerable households, and both household welfare and the PMT formula are periodically reassessed; however, there is currently no case management system in place to keep track of the programme’s impact on beneficiaries; recertification is taking place, and around 40,000 (out of 105,000) households have already been reassessed based on the revised PMT

Health care benefits; school fee waivers; food vouchers

Food voucher (e-card): USD27 capped at six individuals per household (the voucher’s value decreased from USD30 to USD27 in August 2016)

E-card food voucher: monthly; households can redeem e-cards at around 450 shops contracted by the WFP throughout Lebanon

i) Halla cards can be used to access education and health benefits at the local level through SDCs, local clinics and the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (through payment exemptions); ii) e-card food voucher

Head of household or applicant

MIS: A national database of the beneficiaries of NPTP is organised by the MoSA; household information is collected by Social Inspectors working at SDCs during the initial household visits and through PMT questionnaires