Abstract

The Reaching the Poor Program (RPP) is an effort to begin finding better ways of ensuring that the benefits of health, nutrition, and population (HNP) programs flow to disadvantaged population groups. Its two main objectives are to determine which HNP programs do and do not reach disadvantaged groups effectively and encourage others to undertake similar determinations of HNP program effectiveness in reaching the poor. The four principal reports produced by the RPP are available at this site, including a four page brochure summarizing the program’s findings, a 26-page publication that discusses examples of the Program-sponsored case studies and explains how the approach used in these studies for the monitoring of how well health activities reach the poor, a 40-page special issue of the World Bank Institute’s periodical Development Outreach, with a full summary, and non-technical articles on several projects identified by the Program and a 350-age volume feature more technical presentations of Program-selected case studies, along with introductory chapters dealing with why the studies were undertaken, why they were done, and what they found. 

2004 Designing Health and Population Programs to Reach the Poor (26 pg. publication)