The Role of Targeting in Service Delivery to Vulnerable Populations – The FANRPAN Household Vulnerability Index (HVI) A Synthesis of Three Country Reports

“The objective of the HVI pilot study conducted in Lesotho, Swaziland and Zimbabwe was to further develop and test the HVI as a statistical tool for quantifying household vulnerability resulting from shocks such as HIV and AIDS. Key outputs from the study were a refined method for constructing the HVI and a computerized tool for its computation. This computerized HVI
tool enables wider use of HVI by development organisations in targeting for their programmes.”