[weitzenegger.de] March 2009 on Poverty Impact Assessment (PIA)
Karsten Weitzenegger
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CONTENT
Special Issue: Ex-Ante Poverty Impact Assessment (PIA)
1. PIA improves decision making for development results
2. How PIA works
3. Key reading on PIA
4. Networks you can use for poverty impact assessment
5. Training and Events
6. Publications
7. Websites you can use for poverty impact assessment
With special thanks to Claudia Gottmann, Andrea Warner and Ilse Worm.
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1. PIA improves decision making for development results
How can donors and partner countries assess the intended and unintended consequences
of donor interventions? The Poverty-Network of the Organisation for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD) proposes ex-ante Poverty Impact Assessment (PIA),
which can assist in modifying the design of interventions to improve pro-poor impacts
and identifying key areas for monitoring and evaluation (M&E). It can be applied to
most modalities of donor support.
PIA is a process which helps policy-makers to understand the intended andunintended
consequences of their interventions. This approach considers that good design of an
intervention requires governments and their partners to understand the effect of their
policies on diverse social groups, actors and institutions, including those not
targeted by the policy.
The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness stresses the importance of results-oriented
frameworks, harmonisation and alignment to improve aid effectiveness and to assure
better pro-poor outcomes. Yet, prior analysis of the impacts of policy and investment
decisions on poverty reduction is a complex task. It is often built on contentious
assumptions and is dependent on data availability. Ex ante PIA helps donors and their
partners understand and maximise the poverty reducing impacts of their interventions.
It responds both to the need for accountability to partners’ constituencies and to the
importance of transparent evidence-based decision-making. It can identify
interventions with high impact on poverty reduction and pro-poor growth as well as
mitigating measures to protect the poor. A broad application of ex ante PIA could also
provide a basis for a harmonised reporting system on poverty impacts.
Poverty Impact Assessment helps decision makers determine strategic choices for public
actions so as to have the greatest impact on reducing poverty and achieving pro-poor
growth. PIA provides a better understanding about potential winners and losers of an
intervention and thus strengthens a results-oriented approach. PIA helps to understand
stakeholders and institutions that influence and are influenced by an intervention and
to understand the importance and inter-relationship of specific transmission channels
through which changes are transmitted to the stakeholders assess the likely positive
and negative outcomes for stakeholders taking into account multi-dimensionality of
poverty assess the reliability of data/information and knowledge gaps.
Using PIA, policy-makers can estimate the likely quantitative and qualitative outcomes
of the policy for poor groups, identify potential risks and assess the reliability of
available data. Through involving people with different interests and approaches,
ex-ante Impact Assessment helps to design interventions to be better targeted to
achieve their goals and avoid unintended harmful consequences. Thus it also
contributes to strengthening the transparency and accountability of democratically
elected governments, and encourages consistency of policy-making across policy areas.
PIA is not just another new approach to assess the distributional impactsof
interventions. It deliberately draws on existing approaches and their terminology, in
particular on the Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA). While PSIA is more
suitable for structural policy reforms and involves rigorous in depth analysis,
including specific data collection for thorough social, political and economic
analysis and comprising a whole range of quantitative and qualitative tools including
micro and macroeconomic modeling. PIA is a ‘lighter’ approach, drawing predominantly
on existing data and analyses. It provides an estimation of effects and aquick
overview and focuses more on subsector or program levels. But it can alsohelp at the
initial phase of sector or policy reforms to identify requirements for a full-fledged
PSIA. PIA is thus less resource demanding. While a complete PSIA requiresmore than
100 000 Euro, the estimated cost of PIA is less than 20 000 Euro.
See the PIA Concept Note: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/13/9/38878575.pdf
For more information on Poverty Impact Assessment and POVNET’s work:
http://www.oecd.org/dac/poverty
UNDP: Poverty in Focus 14: P(S)IA: http://www.ipc-undp.org/pub/IPCPovertyInFocus14.pdf
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2. How PIA works
PIA helps donors and partner countries identify the intended and unintended
consequences of their interventions. PIA provides a framework for improving baseline
data and monitoring the impact hypothesis during implementation and inputs for ex post
evaluations. It formulates recommendations for decision makers on how theintervention
might be improved. Ex ante PIA is designed to harmonise approaches. It seeks to avoid
both incoherent assessments created by competing methods and often-conflicting demands
placed on partner governments.
PIA’s novelty is that it integrates already established approaches, their
terminologies and procedures into one modular approach. The PIA consists of 5 modules.
In each step the risks, monitoring needs and information quality are assessed and
recommendations are made – based on evidence – on how the intervention can be improved.
Module 1: Poverty situation and relevance to national strategies and plans
Module 2: Stakeholder and institutional analysis
Module 3: Identification of transmission channels and overall results by channel
Module 4: Assessment of stakeholders’ and target groups’ capabilities
Module 5: Assessment of results on MDGs and other strategic goals
The PIA modules lead to a picture about possible poverty impacts of specific
development projects or programmes. These projects can take place in all kinds of
areas of development and need not specifically be directed towards the poor. PIA is a
tool to then assess in how far the project does actually impact the poor.Although the
tool has useful elements and forces one to think about a multitude of issues that
otherwise might have slipped the mind, it is also based on very strong assumptions
about linear relations between different situations. The tool asks you topredict
poverty impacts based on very little information with little analytical tools. In
academic terms, this tool wouldn’t be considered to be a solid tool formeasuring
poverty impact, but more as an analytical framework structuring your datacollection.
Nevertheless, if it is used to force its users to think more in-depth about the
project and its possible outcomes for the poor, it is certainly useful inits own right.
PIA is based on balancing qualitative and quantitative information to achieve a sound
and reliable assessment. The level of detail can be determined by the needs of the
organisation commissioning the PIA. This might be a quick exercise, basedon already
available data, or a longer, more detailed assessment, requiring greater consultation
and research.
Ex ante PIA holds a number of advantages over other forms of impact assessment:
- It provides a flexible methodology, which can draw on more intensive data collection
and analysis where these are available. It also provides useful guidance in their absence.
- It is based on a simple framework and associated assessment procedures that build on
existing methodologies and definitions. It is less demanding than povertyand social
impact analysis (PSIA) in terms of data, time, personnel and financial resources, and
it has the advantage that is not seen as a tool of one specific donor, but as a
harmonized approach.
- It complements rather than replaces other assessments during the appraisal process,
such as log-frame analysis, cost-benefit/cost-effectiveness analysis or environmental
assessments.
- It can be applied to projects, programmes, sector-wide interventions or
subsector-strategies. However, it is not useful for assessing budget support or
identifying the poverty impacts of very small projects.
- It can serve as a framework for monitoring impact hypotheses during implementation
and as an input for later evaluation exercises.
- It provides a flexible level of analysis dependent on the resources available.
Should more detailed analysis be required, it can be scaled up to a poverty and social
impact analysis (PSIA).
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3. Key reading on PIA
Promoting Pro-Poor growth: A Practical Guide to ex-ante Poverty Impact Assessment
http://www.oecd.org/document/25/0,3343,en_2649_34621_40333529_1_1_1_1,00.html
This practical guide, developed by the DAC Network on Poverty Reduction (POVNET), is
designed to help staff in developing countries and in aid agencies to plan and execute
PIAs and to interpret their findings, the ultimate goal being to design and implement
more effective poverty reduction policies and programmes. Download:
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/46/39/38978856.pdf
Ex ante appraisal of the impacts on poverty of the project ''Plateforme du Millénaire
de Diamniadio''
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/57/32/39206523.pdf
Process documentation of the first Poverty Impact Assessment (PIA) in theRepublic of
Senegal, by Kerstin Meyer, Andrea Warner, Roland Hackenberg, Nathalie Manga Badji,
GTZ, Dakar, June 2007
Sample Mission Report
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/57/53/38609100.pdf
Ex Ante Poverty Impact Assessment for Regional Economic Development: Green Belt Siem
Reap Province, Cambodia
Sample Mission Report
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/31/27/41768805.pdf
Financial Cooperation with Cambodia. Poverty Impact Assessment for Rural
Electrification II
Managing for Development Results and Mutual Accountability
The value of evidence based decision-making for advancing cross cutting issues
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/57/40/38607559.pdf
Workshop on Development Effectiveness in Practice, Dublin, Ireland, 26-27April 2007
Using Poverty and Social Impact Analysis to design more effective povertyreduction
measures
http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/pub/IPCPovertyInFocus14.pdf
This IPC Focus issue examines the usefulness of two recently developed analytical
tools: Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) and Poverty Impact Assessment (PIA).
To explore PSIA's and PIA's potential contribution to more effective poverty reduction
policies, individual articles in this volume.
Lessons learned in conducting Ex Ante Poverty Impact Assessment
http://www.mfdr.org/rt3/Glance/Day3/Sen.ppt
Lessons learned in conducting Ex Ante Poverty Impact Assessment for a Natural Resource
Management Programme in India Third Round Table MfDR – Hanoi 2007.
Ex Ante Poverty Impact Assessment
http://www.mfdr.org/RT3/Glance/Day3/Dio.ppt
Presentation by Wolf M. Dio, GTZ, POVNET Task Team Leader, Third International Round
Table MfDR, Hanoi 2007
As well as the PIA approach, POVNET has recently developed and is actively
disseminating guidance for donors on promoting pro-poor growth , including in relation to:
Agriculture:
http://www.oecd.org/document/16/0,3343,en_2649_34621_36562128_1_1_1_1,00.html
Employment:
http://www.oecd.org/document/10/0,3343,en_2649_34621_41168458_1_1_1_1,00.html
Infrastructure:
http://www.oecd.org/document/30/0,3343,en_2649_34621_36567326_1_1_1_1,00.html
Private sector development:
http://www.oecd.org/document/12/0,3343,en_2649_34621_36563212_1_1_1_1,00.html
Social protection:
http://www.oecd.org/document/31/0,3343,en_2649_34621_41169119_1_1_1_1,00.html
Poverty and Social Impact Analysis
http://www.worldbank.org/psia
This World Bank website was conceived as a forum for interaction and a tool for
disseminating experience.
Sourcebook on Emerging Good Practice in Managing for Development Results (MfDR)
http://www.mfdr.org/Sourcebook.html
The Sourcebook is a valuable resource which provides solution-oriented examples of
MfDR in action for practitioners at many levels and in many contexts. By focusing on
observable and replicable interventions, the Sourcebook aims to increase the
understanding of MfDR and illustrate how many stakeholders are effectively
implementing MfDR principles for greater development effectiveness.
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4. Networks you can use for poverty impact assessment
African Parliamentary Poverty Reduction Network - (APRN)
http://www.parlcent.ca/africa/prnetwork/pr_network_e.php
The APRN was created in 2003 in response to demands by African parliamentarians for a
network that would bring together Members of Parliament from all over Africa
interested in central issues such as poverty reduction to discuss and share best
practices, lessons learned and experiences in that area; as well as to improve their
poverty monitoring capacity and increase their policy-making knowledge and build
linkages with policy institutes.
Affiliated Network for Social Accountability (ANSA Africa)
http://www.ansa-africa.net
ANSA-Africa is a new network, jointly created by the World Bank and the Human Sciences
Research Council (HSRC) of South Africa, to become a leading African advocate of
citizen involvement in demand-side governance initiatives.
Aid Workers Network
http://www.aidworkers.net
Collaborative project set up to provide practical advice for aid workers from aid workers.
BOP Source - The first social network for the base of the pyramid
http://bopsource.ning.com
A social network for the 4 billion people at the base of the economic pyramid, the
NGO's that serve them, and the companies that want to do business with them. BOP
Source is an interactive platform for collaboration on productive BOP business ideas,
to help companies better understand and reach BOP markets, and for NGOs to help
facilitate new relationships between their constituencies and companies.
Business Fights Poverty
http://businessfightspoverty.ning.com
A professional network for all those passionate about fighting world poverty through
the power of good business.
CROPnet Comparative Research Programme on Poverty
http://www.crop.org/cropnet/
CROP invites poverty researchers and others interested in poverty research to join the
CROP network. At present the network holds over sixteen hundred members. Close to half
of the members in the CROP network comes from the South and countries in transition.
More than one hundred countries are represented, not only Norway.
Development Crossing
http://www.developmentcrossing.com
A fast-growing network of professionals engaged in corporate social responsibility and
sustainable development. The site enables users to create profiles, manage blogs and
discussions, create groups and events, and directly network with several thousand
professionals around the world.
dgCommunities: Poverty
http://poverty.developmentgateway.org/
A free online service by the Development Gateway Foundation is devoted to
knowledge-sharing and collaboration for people working to reduce poverty in the
developing world.
Eldis Poverty Community
http://community.eldis.org
The Eldis Community is a free on-line community where you can meet othersinvolved in
international development and discuss the issues that are important to you. Meet other
Eldis readers interested in poverty issues. Create a profile for yourselfand publish
your own research.
Enterprise Development Exchange
http://communities.seepnetwork.org
This Network links related communities of practice to advance sustainablepoverty
eradication. It is facilitated by The SEEP Network through the Value Initiative.
European Anti-Poverty Network: Fighting for a Social Europe Free of Poverty!
http://www.eapn.org
Since 1990, the European Anti Poverty Network (EAPN) has been an independent network
of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and groups involved in the fightagainst
poverty and social exclusion in the Member States of the European Union.
Human Development Resource Net (HDRNet)
http://www.yorku.ca/hdrnet/index.asp
A specialised information gateway and electronic library on human development and
international co-operation. Part of an international collaborative effortbringing
together UN organisations, practitioners and academics from around the world to
contribute material relevant to the research and practice of human development.
Archives otherwise unavailable material and offers unrestricted access tothe
documents in English, Spanish, French and Italian.
MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY
http://www.makepovertyhistory.org
Brings together a wide cross section of over 200 charities, campaigns, trade unions,
faith groups and celebrities who are united by a common belief that 2005 offers a
unprecedented opportunity for global change.
POVNET - The OECD DAC Network on Poverty Reduction
http://tinyurl.com/dlz2vt
The OECD DAC Network on Poverty Reduction (POVNET) promotes economic growth for
poverty reduction, stressing the importance of both the rate and the pattern of growth
to: create more and better jobs for the poor, including in the informal economy;
expand access to social and productive infrastructure, particularly in rural areas
where most of the poor live; increase agricultural productivity, which has so often
been the key to national development; and promote social protection programmes, which
help to make growth work for the poor
Poverty and Economic Policy (PEP) Research Network
http://www.pep-net.org
PEP brings together and provides scientific and financial support to teams of
developing country researchers working to reduce poverty.
Southern African Regional Poverty Network (SARPN)
http://www.sarpn.org.za
Non-profit organisation that promotes debate and knowledge sharing on poverty
reduction processes and experiences in Southern Africa. SARPN aims to contribute
towards effective reduction of poverty in the countries of the Southern African
Development Community (SADC) through creating platforms for effective pro-poor policy,
strategy and practice.
Global Development Network (GDN)
http://www.gdnet.org
A worldwide network of research and policy institutes working to provide a fresh and
relevant perspective to the development challenges of our time.
Wold Bank’s PovertyNet
http://tinyurl.com/PovertyNet
The World Bank provides an introduction to key issues as well as in-depthinformation
on poverty measurement, monitoring, analysis, and on poverty reduction strategies for
researchers and practitioners.
UN List of Poverty Networks
http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/povnet.do
IPC-IG is organizing an online catalogue of Poverty Networks, which are web-based
platforms that share development-related information. The aim of this directory is to
facilitate the access to development knowledge across our network in 189 countries and
help foster dialogue between researchers, policymakers, civil society andmultilateral
organizations.
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5. Training and Events
Perspectives on Impact Evaluation: Approaches to Assessing Development Effectiveness
http://www.impactevaluation2009.org
Egypt, 29 March - 2 April, 2009, Joint conference by NONIE, 3IE and AfrEA, Arab States /
An International Conference in Africa for policy-makers, program managers, evaluators,
sponsors and other stakeholders in evaluation and development.
Poverty and Social Analysis E-learning Course
http://tinyurl.com/cxjq6j
The World Bank's PSIA E-learning Course provides fundamental PSIA training in three
modules:
Module 1. The PSIA Approach — How and When it is Applied
Module 2. The PSIA Approach — Overview of Tools and Methods
Module 3. Implementing PSIA — PSIA Good Practice
CIARIS Learning and Resources Centre on Social Inclusion.
http://www.ciaris.org
CIARIS has a history of knowledge development on social inclusion issues,people,
information and communication technologies. CIARIS aims to strengthen practicioners'
capacity to design, plan, manage and evaluate projects and policies to fight social
exclusion and hence promote decent work.
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6. Publications
Annual reports by the Independent Expert on human rights and extreme poverty
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/poverty/expert/annual.htm
As determined by the Human Rights Council, the independent expert will continue to
examine the relationship between the enjoyment of human rights and extreme poverty,
paying particular attention to issues of discrimination and the situationof women,
children, persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups.
Chronic Poverty Research Centre Bibliographic Database
http://support.biblioscape.com:8002/bw_login.htm
The CPRC Bibliographic Database provides a searchable index of publications related to
chronic poverty, produced by CPRC and others.
DAC Scoping Study of Donor Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices
http://www.oecd.org/document/38/0,3343,en_2649_34621_1885798_1_1_1_1,00.html
The DAC Scoping Study of Donor Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices assesses the
performance of development agencies. Development agencies are more determined than
ever before to ensure development co-operation results in poverty reduction. The fact
that all OECD/DAC Member Governments have signed up to the International Development
Goals is the clearest sign of this commitment.
Guidelines for Successful Poverty Reduction in the Work of GTZ
http://www.gtz.de/de/dokumente/en-guidelines-fightingpoverty.2007.pdf
By providing practical advice, the guidelines aim to help mainstream poverty reduction
even more successfully in the work of GTZ. The guidelines ofer suggestions, lines of
argument, references for further reading, links and methodological pointers that can
help us support our partners in reducing poverty sustainably. Practical examples and
references to existing GTZ guidelines complement the present guidelines.
Poverty and Social Impact Analysis of Reforms: Lessons and Examples from Implementation
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPSIA/Resources/brochure_PSIALessons.pdf
Poverty and Social Impact Analysis of Reforms presents a collection of case studies
that illustrate the spectrum of sectors and policy reforms to which PSIA can be
applied; it also elaborates on the broad range of analytical tools and techniques that
can be used for PSIA. The case studies provide examples of the impact that PSIA can
have on the design of policy reforms and draw operational lessons for PSIA
implementation.
Poverty-Environment-Gender Linkages
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/47/46/1960506.pdf
Poverty reduction, economic growth and the maintenance of life-supporting
environmental resources are inextricably linked. This document attempts to clarify the
key linkages between these areas, with special attention paid to their gender
dimension and the policy implicatons at the local, sectoral and national levels. It
aims to provide an analytical road-map which could be used a reference for more
detailed sector and country-specific examinations.
Using PSIA to Support Development Policy Operations
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPSIA/Resources/GPN_August08_final.pdf
This Good Practice Note provides advice to World Bank task teams on when,why and how
to conduct PSIA as part of preparing a Development Policy Operation (DPO). This note
updates the 2004 Good Practice Note by incorporating practical lessons from PSIA
implementation over the past three years, as well as comments received during the
external consultations held in 2007/08.
What Connects Regulatory Governance to Poverty?
http://www.competition-regulation.org.uk/publications/working_papers/WP118.pdf
Martin Minogue, Centre on Regulation and Competition Working Paper Series– June 2005
The paper describes the different interpretations of poverty and the interpretation of
regulatory governance and examines the possible linkages between regulatory governance
and poverty reduction. Relative poverty – meaning falling behind most others in the
community – is often even more strengthened by restrictively market-oriented policy
formulation that does not take into account the cultural context and the specific
understanding and knowledge regarding the inputs and choices of affected parties.
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7. Websites you can use for poverty impact assessment
BRIDGE - Gender and Poverty
http://www.bridge.ids.ac.uk/reports_gend_pov.htm
BRIDGE Gender and Poverty publications include summaries of key materials, good
practice cases, lists of tools and checklists and key online resources.
British Library for Development Studies Subject Guide on Poverty
http://blds.ids.ac.uk/guides/pov.html
This Guide provides quick access to BLDS resources through pre-designed searches of
the catalogue's 150 000 plus records.
CROP Comparative Research Programme on Poverty
http://www.crop.org
CROP is an international research programme initiated in 1992 by the International
Social Science Council. It is now one of the major programmes of the Council. Hosting
CROPnet as open network.
Development Gateway - Poverty
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/poverty
Development Gateway topic pages are e-communities led by experts in the development
field. They connect partners, members, organizations and other stakeholders by
providing opportunities to exchange knowledge, know-how and opinions.
Eldis Resource Guide on Poverty
http://www.eldis.org/go/topics/resource-guides/poverty
Eldis Resource Guides provide easy structured access to our extensive collection of
research and policy documents. All are editorially selected, summarised and available
free to download in full text. Resource guides are intended to help you keep up to
date with the latest in development research, policy and practice.
Evaluation Portal by Lars Balzer
http://www.evaluation.lars-balzer.name
At this Evaluation Portal you find hand-picked, human-edited, categorizedinformation
about the topic ''evaluation'' (and a bit about social science methods).
Focuss.Info Initiative
http://www.focuss.info
Focuss.info provides a high quality search engine for practitioners, researchers and
students in the area of global development studies. When these websites are available
on the Internet, the Focuss.Info search engine indexes the hand-picked websites, with
a focus on global development cooperation, and make these websites full text
retrievable. In other words: start saving and sharing your favorite websites via
social bookmarks spaces, such as Delicious or CiteULike, and report your social
bookmark account to the Focuss.Info Initiative.
Free evaluation resources for developing countries.
http://earth.prohosting.com/elecon/evaldevel/evaldevelopment.html
Gene Shackman created this site to work with a coalition of evaluators and evaluation
organizations to provide evaluation, consulting or training resources to organizations
and evaluators in developing countries.
Global Donor Platform for Rural Development
http://www.donorplatform.org
Since the creation of the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development in 2004, major
bilateral and multilateral development agencies are united in a coordinated endeavour
to get the rural development agenda right. Donors are committed to achieving increased
development assistance impact and more effective investment in rural development and
agriculture.
Global Poverty Research Group - GPRG
http://www.gprg.org
ESRC-funded multidisciplinary research group providing a framework for collaboration
between the Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) at Oxford University, and
IDPM and CPRC at Manchester University.
Governance and Social Development Resource Centre
http://www.gsdrc.org
Funded by the UK Department for International Development, the Governanceand Social
Development Resource Centre (GSDRC) aims to help reduce poverty by informing
policymaking and enhancing professional knowledge in relation to governance, conflict
and social development.
GTZ's Poverty-related activities´
http://www.gtz.de/en/themen/uebergreifende-themen/902.htm
GTZ supports partners in developing countries as well as BMZ, other ministries and
international organisations. This support is focussing on strategies for broad-based
growth, the implementation of national poverty reduction strategies, poverty-oriented
results monitoring and policy monitoring.
International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG), UNDP
http://www.undp.org/povertycentre/index.htm
Based in Brazil, IPC serves as the nexus for promoting, learning and knowledge sharing
on key poverty concerns among developing countries to improve the living conditions of
the world's poorest citizens. The Centre's mission is to facilitate South-South
learning in development solutions by fostering policy dialogue; carrying out
policy-oriented research; as well as conducting training and evaluation. Its vision is
the attainment of high inclusive growth. See in particular research and publications
on social protection and cash transfers.
Methods for Social Research in Developing Countries
http://srmdc.net
Website to make the contents of Methods for Social Researchers in Developing Countries
available free to researchers in developing countries, where books are too expensive
for faculty, students, or even for libraries to buy.
Poverty Assessment Tools
http://www.povertytools.org
This IRIS Center Website hosts updates and reports and discussions arounddeveloping
and recommending poverty assessment tools. It also hosts a Poverty Assessment Tools
listserv, where discussions are moderated and conducted with bounded timelines.
Summaries of previous listserv discussions are also available.
PovertyFrontiers
http://www.povertyfrontiers.org
PovertyFrontiers is a USAID-supported Website dedicated to sharing knowledge and
resources on poverty reduction, pro-poor growth, asset-based approaches to
development, and poverty-related issues. PovertyFrontiers is also a forumfor those
involved in poverty reduction to exchange ideas and best practices.
Q-Squared: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis
http://www.q-squared.ca
This Website is a great resource for those seeking information on povertyresearch,
measurement and analysis. Q-Squared aims to promote better integration ofqualitative
and quantitative poverty research methods. The site links to a variety ofcommissioned
publications presenting good practice in accurate poverty research, as well as
information about training, news and events.
Research Methods Knowledge Base
http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/contents.htm
This site is the home page for a number of additional Webpages, each of which provides
brief, easily understood descriptions and illustrations of virtually any social
research method you might want to use; covers the foundations of research, sampling,
measurement, design, analysis, and the process of writing up a research report.
Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG)
http://sosig.ac.uk
Provides selected, high quality information for students and researchers in the social
sciences, business, and law; also provides links to over 50,000 social science Webpages.
Statistical Databases
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/databases.htm
Provides brief descriptions of and links to a wide variety of databases produced by
Statistics Division, UN, and that are available with unrestricted access.
Statistical Sites on the World Wide Web, U.S. Department of Labor
http://www.bls.gov/bls/other.htm
Provides links for online access to statistical and other information from more than
70 agencies of the U.S. government and statistical offices of most countries
throughout the world.
The Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC)
http://www.chronicpoverty.org
This international partnership of universities, research institutes and NGOs was
established in 2000 with initial funding from the United Kingdom's Department for
International Development (DFID).
UN Secretariat's Division for Social Policy and Development (DSPD)
http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/social/poverty/
The Division seeks to strengthen international cooperation for social development,
particularly in the areas of poverty eradication, productive employment and decent
work and the social inclusion of older persons, youth, family, persons with
disabilities, indigenous peoples, persons in situations of conflict and other groups
or persons marginalized from society and development.
UNEG United Nations Evaluation Group
http://www.unevaluation.org
This site hosts the Country Level Evaluation Database and the UNDP Evaluation Resource
Center (ERC). UNEG has many links to external evaluation resources including
evaluation associations and societies, international organisations, training resources
and governments.
Virtual Resource Centre on ex-ante Impact Assessment
http://europeandcis.undp.org/pia
This UNDP website has been launched and is being maintained as one of thecomponents
of the regional project on ex-ante Impact Assessment funded by UNDP Bratislava
Regional Centre for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States andthe Local
Government and Public Service Support Initiative of Open Society Institute, Budapest.
Under the ''best practices” heading, the Virtual Resource Centre aims to show a
selection of key steps and ideas in the ex-ante impact assessment process, drawn from
the work of key institutions or recorded in countries implementing the ex-ante impact
assessment process in their policy formulation.
Web Pages that Perform Statistical Calculations
http://statpages.org
Provides over 600 links, including nearly 400 pages that perform calculations, and
growing; a source of information on almost anything you might need in conducting
analyses and calculations, including links to interactive statistics, free software,
books and manuals, and demonstrations and tutorials.
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