In Cameroon, there are a number of targeting approaches, most of which are based on objective, verifiable criteria, and often even include weighted variables to give each potential beneficiary a poverty score (social safety net project, WFP, UNHCR, PBF). There are also a multitude of concepts used to designate the beneficiaries of social protection programs: “indigent”, “poor and disadvantaged populations”, “vulnerable people”, etc. These are just a few examples. The contents, limits and similarities of these concepts are often not well defined and understood in the same way by all the players who use them. Analysis of the various targets of social protection programs converges on one priority target: “extreme poor households”, also known as “chronically food-insecure households”.