Innovations for Poverty Action (2021) Working paper / technical note

Using Mobile Phone and Satellite Data to Target Emergency Cash Transfers in Togo

Innovations for Poverty Action

Ref: SRC-003-TGO-005

https://poverty-action.org/using-mobile-phone-and-satellite-data-target-emergency-cash-transfers-togo

Accessed: 3/27/2026

Summary

IPA explainer of the Novissi satellite-plus-phone targeting method. It confirms the September 2020 phone survey of roughly 10,000 individuals used as ground truth, the programme budget constraint around identifying the poorest 57,000 people in the 100 poorest cantons, and the planned fairness and exclusion-error assessment for the rollout.

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Innovations for Poverty Action (2021) 'Using Mobile Phone and Satellite Data to Target Emergency Cash Transfers in Togo', 12 January. Available at: https://poverty-action.org/using-mobile-phone-and-satellite-data-target-emergency-cash-transfers-togo (Accessed: 27 March 2026).

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