Ex ante Poverty Impact Assessment

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Ex ante Poverty Impact Assessment Poverty
Data Monitoring and Evaluation Seminar East
Asia PADI Coordinator Conference May 10-14,
2007 Nanchang, PR China Solveig Buhl, OECD

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POVNETs work

• Formed in 1998 subsidiary body of Development
  Assistance Committee (DAC) of OECD
• helps development agencies develop more effective
  and sustainable approaches to supporting partner
  country poverty reduction efforts (DAC
  Guidelines Poverty Reduction, 2001)
• Since 2003 focus on relationship between
  economic growth and poverty reduction in
  developing countries and strategies and policies
  that donors should pursue to promote pro-poor
  growth (PPG) (Promoting Pro-Poor Growth Policy
  Guidance for Donors, 2006)
• Since 2006, platform for implementing Paris
  Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and ODA scaling
  up
• Consolidate knowledge about implementing PPG -
  approaches
• Strengthen donor co-ordination around locally
  owned poverty reduction strategies
• Widen debate on PPG through local and regional
  activities and events

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The PIA Task Team within POVNET

• Group founded in 2005 to develop harmonised and
  easy to use approach to (ex ante) poverty impact
  assessment
• Participants DAC/OECD, France, Germany, Japan,
  Netherlands, UK, Sweden, Switzerland, USA,
  Ireland, Finland (plus consultations with partner
  countries)
• 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 2006-2007
• Joined forces with PSIA network (additional
  members WB, UNDP)
• Guide to PIA will be submitted to DAC and
  published in June 2007

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PIAs contribution to the Paris Declaration
commitments
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Basic properties and level of application

• Can cover most interventions (policy, programmes,
  projects, NOT budget support)
• Based on existing approaches, e.g. PSIA, impact
  chain analysis
• Use of existing data and analyses with the option
  to collect additional data (using both quant. and
  qual. approaches)
• Relatively simple, flexible approach, providing 5
  modules with matrices

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PIA framework and modules
Assess Improvements to MDGs plus
PIA Modules
Risks
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Assess enhancement to capabilities (economic,
protective, political, cultural, human)
gender/environment
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Determine transmission channels (prices,
employment, transfers, access, authority, assets)

R E S U L T S C H A I N
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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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Improved understanding of the planned
interventions serves several purposes

• To summarise, PIA allows to
• identify interventions with high poverty
  reduction and pro-poor growth impact
• improve design of proposed intervention
• identify existing information quality and
  information gaps
• identify monitoring needs

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Next steps

• Dissemination of lessons learned and continuous
  learning
• Awareness raising workshops and capacity
  development among donor agencies and in partner
  countries
• Up-scaling of the approach

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THANK YOU!
For further information www.oecd.org/dac/poverty
Promoting Pro-Poor Growth Harmonising Ex Ante
Poverty Impact Assessment http//www.oecd.org/data
oecd/32/44/36573576.pdf The Guide to Ex Ante
Poverty Impact Assessment will be published in
June 2007 Solveig.Buhl_at_oecd.org
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Module 1 Poverty situation and relevance to
national strategies and programmes
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Module 2 Stakeholder/ Institution Analysis
example PPP biofuel
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Module 3 Transmission Channels example biofuel
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Module 4 Outcomes related to capabilities
example biofuel
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Module 5 Impacts at aggregated level example
biofuel