to qualify ovc must be under years old and come from a household with one deceased or chronically ill parent or where the main caregiver is chronically ill the regions targeted are selected on the basis of poverty levels and hiv prevalence community committees visit households where there are children living in poverty gather data about the household and then decide which households meet the criteria for the cash transfer local knowledge is valued in this process a list of the households selected is sent to nairobi another visit takes place to collect data related to living conditions including the dwelling construction drinking water source cooking fuel livestock and the toilet if there is one