Background

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Background

• Donors and Steering Committee requested workshop
  to investigate the impact of poverty maps
• Uses, usefulness
• Type of information format
• Analyses awareness

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Workshop Objectives
Review impact of poverty maps to date Identify
priority needs (current and future) to increase
impact and expand scope of application Propose
opportunities for partnerships, funding,
training, awarenes raising, new applications etc
to meet these needs
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Some Needs

• Expand application to environmental planning
  monitoring (location, analysis integration)
• Developing poverty-environment information
  systems
• Raising awareness
• Collection, analysis, presentation of data
• Integration of information in decision making

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Some Opportunities

• Integration of environment issues into PRSPs
  (UNEP, WB, and others)
• NEPAD/GEF Environment Initiative to use poverty
  mapping
• Vulnerability assessments
• Monitoring, e.g. poverty mapping and the MDGs
• Scenarios planning
• World Resources Report 2005 to focus on
  poverty/environment case studies?
• PEP member needs?

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Some Outputs

• Workshop report
• Recommendations
• Partnerships?
• New applications?

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WRAP UP

• Is there a need for poverty mapping?
• Demonstrated usefulness in-country in targeting
  assistance, analysing linkages, coordinating
  development, communicating information
• What are limitations?
• Only a tool, cannot solve problems, must be used
  in context, must be demand-driven (e.g. Rwanda
  and Senegal)

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..........Continued

• What are some envisioned new uses?
• Raising awareness within development agencies,
  integrating environment into PRSPs, demographic
  change analysis, health planning, vulnerability
  assessments, setting priorities
• What needs to be done to enhance usefulness?
• Strengthening capacities, increasing awareness,
  validation, improving access to and quality of
  data, streamlining with other initiatives

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..........Continued

• What opportunities?
• Streamline EIS/GIS development and capacity
  building with other needs, opportunities for
  partnerships between PEP partners or within
  development agency programmes, also opportunities
  to use as scenario tool
• Next steps?
• Continue awareness raising amongst developing
  countries, pilot poverty-environment mapping
  initiatives in selected developing countries
  (e.g. Monitoring of environmental integration in
  PRSP) and use results to further develop/modify
  this tool

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THANK YOU

• Anna Ballance
• Tlf 47 3703 5758
• Anna_at_grida.no