Anna McCord was contracted by ILO to contribute to the ILO workshop held in Geneva from the 24th to the 26th September 2008. The workshop was held to accompany the launch of ILO's review of some existing social assistance programmes. The aim of the workshop was to define the review's problemtatics (analytical framework), to orient the study's methodology and to identify information sources and institutions to be associated with in the future. Anna McCord contribution at the workshop and also produced a short note with key recommendations on the content and the methodology of the review.