Child Poverty StudyYemen

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Child Poverty Study-Yemen

• Progress up to date
• Southampton, August 18-28,2008

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Yemen The Big Picture

• Population 22.2 million
• Population under 18 11.84 m.
• High rates of poverty (35) Population growth
  rate 3.029
• Child mortality 100
• Infant Mortality 69 (55 urban areas, 73 rural)

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Yemen The Big Picture (Cont.)

• Maternal Mortality 365
• Malnutrition 46
• Women delivering in a health facility 24
• Birth registration Total 22, Urban 38, Rural
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• Mothers aged 15-49 receiving at least 2 doses of
  tetanus toxoid vaccine (31)
• Primary School Net Enrolment rate Total 75.3,
  Male 86.9 Female, 63.2
• Children with diarrhea (34), Urban 29, Rural
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• Children aged 5-14 involved in child labour (23)
  

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Yemen The Big Picture (Cont.)

• Households using improved drinking water sources
  (59), Urban 74, Rural 52
• Households using improved sanitation facilities
  (52) , Urban 92, Rural 34
• Child trafficking serious problem
• HIV/AIDS low prevalence but high vulnerability

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Data Sources

• 2004 census and all prior censuses
• 2003 DHS and earlier ones
• 2006-MICS3
• 2005-2005 HH Budget Survey and earlier ones
• Desk official data
• Official government reports and policy papers
• Reports of research institutes

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Progress

• Consultative groups discussion meetings, and the
  fetching process for both the statistical and the
  policy teams.
• Leading counterpart agencies and proposed
  consultants attended different orientation and
  brainstorming meetings

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Progress

• Selecting two groups of consultants statistical
  team and policy team
• Deputy Prime Minster Minister of Planning and
  International Cooperation MOPIC agrees to chair
  the steering committee
• A ministerial decree on the formation of both the
  steering committee and the technical committee
  issued by the deputy Prime Minister
• On-going work in the statistical and policy
  templates began late July, 2008.

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Opportunities

• On going debates on poverty level coupled with
  late food price increase
• Academia and NGO participation
• Steering committee under the supervision of the
  deputy prime minister political backing
• Access to the 2005-2006 HH-Budget Survey, and
  2007 WB poverty assessment

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Challenges

• Almost all available data sources indicate
  periods of pre- food price increase-and general
  inflation
• MICS3 and DHS with no disaggregated to
  sub-national level data
• Difficulty in getting officially processed data
  released
• Weak transparency at almost all levels
• Political tendency to challenge trends of poverty
  indicators
• Limited institutional and research capacity