PROMOTING

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PROMOTING PRO-POOR GROWTH
Ex ante poverty impact assessment
Presentation at DAC Evaluation Network 17
November 2006 POVNET Ex Ante PIA Team, Wolf M.
Dio
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The Task Team within DAC POVNET

• Mandate of the team to develop a simple,
  harmonized approach for ex ante poverty impact
  assessment of joint interventions
• Participants DAC/OECD, France, Germany, Japan,
  Netherlands, UK, Sweden, Switzerland, USA,
  Ireland, Finland

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The Process

• Group founded in June 2005
• Summary Report Harmonizing ex ante Poverty
  Impact Assessment approved by DAC in March 2006
  http//www.oecd.org/dataoecd/32/44/36573576.pdf
• Pilots by several donors in 2006
• Practical Guide to Ex Ante Poverty Impact
  Assessment has been submitted to POVNET in
  November 2006 and will soon be published

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Basic principles

• Relatively simple, flexible approach
• Based on existing approaches
• Can cover most interventions (policy, programmes,
  projects, NOT budget support)
• Based on basic principles, such as
• better to be roughly right than precisely wrong
• use and assess existing data and analysis (with
  the option to collect additional data)
• process as important as final output
• Provides 5 modules with matrices

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PIA Framework and modules
PIA Modules
Risks
Assess Improvements to MDGs plus
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Assess Enhancement to capabilities
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Determine transmission channels
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R E S U L T S C H A I N
Information quality and gaps
Analyse Institutions Stakeholders
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Determine Design Interventions
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Country Assistance Strategies
National Strategies / Plans
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PIA is a flexible approach

• PIA should be embedded in ongoing planning and
  appraisal process can be part of comprehensive
  planning document or constitute separate report
• PIA can be carried out by interdisciplinary team
  or as a desk study should never degenerate into
  a mere box ticking exercise
• Time needed varies between 2 days and 2-3 weeks

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The improved understanding of the planned
interventions serves several purposes

• PIA allows to
• identify interventions with high poverty
  reduction impacts
• improve design of proposed intervention
• identify existing information and information
  gaps
• identify monitoring needs
• Increased results orientation, transparency and
  accountability
• Reduces burden on partner countries
• Promotes implementation of Paris Declaration

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What needs to be done?- Our Proposed Work
Programme 2007

• Scaling up experiences through
• Accompanying and analysis of PIA applications and
  dissemination of experiences, regarding
  institutional and methodological aspects such as
• optimal suitability for different modes of
  delivery
• standardized versus flexible application
• application of PIA by partner countries
• integration of PIA into institutional assessment
  and evaluation procedures
• linking ex ante PIA approach to monitoring and
  evaluation

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THANK YOU!
For further information Promoting Pro-Poor
Growth Harmonising Ex Ante Poverty Impact
Assessment http//www.oecd.org/dataoecd/32/44/3657
3576.pdf The Practical Guide to Ex Ante Poverty
Impact Assessment will be published soon!