Targeting Livelihoods Interventions Kenneth Swinnerton Chief, Economic and Labor Research Office of Trade and Labor Affairs

Data and Analysis: Before, Beginning, During and After Before: theory + qualitative situational analysis Beginning: baseline survey During: data collection on project participants and a valid comparison group (all should be participants of the baseline) After: analysis to identify what generalizes v. what is context specific 2 U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking

What to Target? Productivity Agency or Market Power [Top two points: produce and claim income] Variability of Income [First and third points are can be assessed a the level of a household. The second embeds households in an outside relationship.] 3 U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking

Who to target? Want to help households with child laborers (or at risk for) But households decide whether their children work Worry: can’t target on child laborers being in household because that may push children into labor if the provided livelihood services are valued by households