the peruvian case shows that when agricultural programmes aim to reach the poor the targets of these interventions could overlap with social protection programme targets ministerio de desarrollo e inclusion social gobiemo del peru the synergies created by the targeting system in peru allow for implementation of a more costeffective targeting strategy and also for improved monitoring of the coverage of social protection and agricultural programmes cirillo gyorgi and soares the options range from standalone sectorspecific social protection or agricultural programmes to integrated interventions that combine social protection and agriculture to sectoral interventions that are aligned to maximize complementarities in certain circumstances categorical targeting can be costeffective for selecting programme beneficiaries based on easily observable characteristics