How Do We Approach a Joint Poverty Assessment?

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1 How Do We Approach a Joint Poverty Assessment? Joint Poverty Assessment Workshop Fred Kilby World Bank Mombasa Kenya, May 19-20, 2005

2 Overview Purpose Content of Poverty Assessment Key Questions to be addressed Process

3 Why a joint assessment? Develop consensus on good pro-poor policies between among development partners. Harmonised coherent dialogue with Govt and civil society. BuiIding block for a joint CAS or Sector wide approaches or other support eg capacity building or to civil society.. Can build on comparative advantages, knowledge sharing.

4 Why this group? Donors interested in a common CAS. Civil society shape content and deeper involvement in policy dialogue. Researchers contribute to policy analysis. Govt to strengthen capacity for poverty monitoring and analysis, obtain feedback on ERS.

5 Good-practice poverty assessments Aim to inform good pro-poor policy. Topics and presentation of results should be relevant to policy and program decisions. Recommend actions to be taken, prioritize them, indicate the appropriate timing, and identify the institutions that would be responsible.

6 Content of poverty assessments I Profile of poverty and inequality -How big an issue?. II Analysis of the impact of growth and public actions on poverty and inequality III. Appraisal of systems and capacity for poverty monitoring and evaluation and improvements needed

7 Profile of poverty and inequality -How big an issue? levels of monetary and non-monetary poverty in nationally? What have been the trends over time? Not just consumption also indicators of empowerment and vulnerability Incorporate findings from both quantitative and participatory studies

8 Who are the poor? Where are they? What do they do? What are their patterns of consumption, income sources and asset ownership? What is their access to health and education services? Or key infrastructure such as electricity, water, transportation, or to other services? Do aspects of monetary and non-monetary poverty differ between males and females, by ethnic or other social group indicators?

9 What are the main sources of vulnerability? Individual and Household Community and National levels? E.g. Food security; health risks; conflict; or environmental risks. Risk of loss of income due to poor harvests, terms of trade shocks etc.

10 Why are people poor? Economic; Institutional; Social and Political; and Environmental, and regional/locational factors

11 II Analysis of the impact of growth and public actions on poverty and inequality Key Questions : What is the impact of growth on different poverty and inequality indicators? What is the poverty impact of distributional changes?

12 What is the impact of key past policies? What are the priority public actions that could help households move out of poverty? Incidence analysis of key public programs Role of central and line agencies, and the role of local agencies in decentralized settings, in determining how public actions affect the poor

13 What are the poverty and social impacts of major policy reforms and programs envisaged in the country? The selection of the policy/program reforms to be analyzed should be based on the expected magnitude of the poverty and social impacts, their timing and urgency

14 III. Appraisal of systems and capacity for poverty monitoring and evaluation and improvements needed Key Question: Are the systems and capacity to monitor and analyze trends in poverty indicators adequate and sustainable?

15 Process in countries Linked with country-based and owned processes that aim to develop a strategy To inform the choice and design of public actions including CASs Building capacity for poverty monitoring is a key goal Support, as much as possible, in-country participatory processes Poverty assessments are normally made available publicly. Disseminated widely through printed publications and electronic media

16 Way forward Poverty work should be carried out sufficiently in advance of the next CAS/ Joint CAS to inform its development Consultations, Consultations, Consultations Prepare Concept Paper concerning the scope of poverty work, funding, allocation of responsibilities for Joint Review. Expert" peer reviewers and or ad hoc advisory Panel