The National Poverty Targeting Program  is managed by the Ministry of Social Affairs (MoSA)

and the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (PCM). It is the first poverty-targeted social assistance program in Lebanon with the objective to “provide social assistance to the poorest and most vulnerable Lebanese households based on transparent criteria that assess each household’s eligibility to receive assistance, given available public resources”. The NPTP is based on a proxy-means testing (PMT) targeting mechanism and is implemented through approximately 500 social workers and inspectors operating at the level of 115 SDCs. The social workers/inspectors have been trained to implement the targeting method and collect needed household information that is verified and processed using an automated management information system.