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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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Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man made and
it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.
Nelson Mandela
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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
and unintended 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
impacts of 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 a quick overview and focuses
more on subsector or program levels. But it can also help 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 requires more 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 the
intervention 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 to predict 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 for measuring
poverty impact, but more as an analytical framework structuring your
data collection. 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 in its 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, based on 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 poverty and 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
the Republic 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,
26-27 April 2007

Using Poverty and Social Impact Analysis to design more effective
poverty reduction 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
others involved in international development and discuss the issues
that are important to you. Meet other Eldis readers interested in
poverty issues. Create a profile for yourself and publish your own
research.

Enterprise Development Exchange
http://communities.seepnetwork.org
This Network links related communities of practice to advance
sustainable poverty 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 fight against 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 effort bringing 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 to the 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-
depth information 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 and multilateral
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 situation of 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,
categorized information 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
Governance and 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
around developing 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 forum for 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
poverty research, measurement and analysis. Q-Squared aims to promote
better integration of qualitative and quantitative poverty research
methods. The site links to a variety of commissioned 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
the components of the regional project on ex-ante Impact Assessment
funded by UNDP Bratislava Regional Centre for Europe and the
Commonwealth of Independent States and the 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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