Regional Seminar on Poverty Analysis and Data Initiative PADI

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• Regional Seminar on Poverty Analysis and Data
  Initiative (PADI)
• Jakarta, June 14-16, 2004
• Shahid Khandker
• World Bank Institute

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WELCOME

• Welcome to the Regional Seminar on Poverty
  Analysis and Data Initiative
• In this overview, I will talk about
• Poverty Analysis and Data Initiative Concept
• Purpose, focus and goals of this seminar
• Outline the seminar agenda.

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Poverty Analysis and Data Initiative (PADI)

• What is PADI?
• PADI is a regional and country level network of
  policymakers, researchers, and data producers
  working on poverty and related areas.
• Objectives of PADI
• To share cross-country experiences on good
  practices in design, implementation, and
  monitoring and impact evaluation of pro-poor
  policies and programs
• To enhance local capacity in designing and
  implementing PRS as well as in ME to guarantee
  effective use of public resources.

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History of PADI

• PADI was launched initially in East Asia in May
  2001 with the first regional workshop held in the
  Philippines. Since then we have organzied
• 3 regional workshops in the Philippines,
  Thailand, and Japan in East Asia Region
• 6 in-country workshops and 1 distance-learning
  course with 4 countries
• PADI seminars to date have brought together 12
  different countries
• 3 PADI workshops were held in Indonesia only.

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History of PADI, continued

• PADI introduced by WBI is a partnership program
  (partners are ADB, UNESCAP, UNSIAP, PIDS, SRTC,
  NSO(Thailand), BPS, CBS (Indonesia), Ministry of
  Labor (Vietnam) and most recently SMERU).
• This seminar is a follow-up to the Regional
  Seminar for Asian Managers of M E of PRS held in
  Bangkok, October, 2002.

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PADI in Other Regions

• South Asia PADI was launched in 2002 with 1
  regional and 3 in-country workshops.
• East Africa PADI was launched in 2003 and is
  developing a firm research agenda with country
  branches in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
• Francophone Africa WBI is currently exploring
  demand and capacity to launch PADI in francophone
  Africa and already held 4 regional and in-country
  workshops.

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Multidimensionality of Poverty

• PADI recognizes multidimensional concept of
  poverty implying multiple deprivations
• Lack of basic needs, e.g. food, shelter
• Lack of adequate education and health
• Vulnerability to physical illness, economic and
  natural shocks
• Lack of voice, and access to basic services, and
  information.

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Multidimensionality of Poverty Reduction policies

• The multidimensional problem of poverty calls for
  multidimensional strategy for poverty reduction
  which has been the theme of initiatives such as
• Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP)
• Millennium Development Goals (MDG).
• Effective service delivery, especially in health
  and education, is a vital enabling mechanism for
  effective poverty reduction.

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Pillars of Poverty Reduction

• The 3 pillars of poverty reduction as discussed
  in World Development Report (WDR) 2000/2001
• Empowering the poor
• Creating opportunity for the poor and
• Providing security against physical and/or
  economic shocks.
• In order to empower the poor and provide them
  with opportunity and a level of security, we need
  to ensure their access to services that they need
  and they want.

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PADI and Pro-Poor Service Delivery

• Focus of PADI
• Stresses better collection, use and analysis of
  timely, relevant, and reliable data for better
  designing, implementing, monitoring and
  evaluating for effective poverty reduction as
  part of PRS.
• Focus of WDR 2004, Making Services Work for Poor
  People
• Poverty reduction via better access by the poor
• Relationships and mechanisms of accountability
  among policymakers, providers, and clients
• Alternative service delivery arrangements.

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Common focus of PADI and WDR 2004

• PADI and WDR 2004 share the common objective of
  effective poverty reduction
• Both PADI and WDR focus on gathering relevant
  data to make informed policymaking in design,
  monitoring, and evaluation
• WDR outlines alternative delivery mechanisms with
  different information flow and relations of
  accountability.

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Regional Seminar on PADIJakarta, June 2004

• The Jakarta Regional Seminar has two major
  objectives (1) follow-up on Bangkok workshop and
  (2) demonstrate usefulness of better data,
  analysis, and ME in sectoral policymaking.
• Assembled policymakers and technicians from
  central and line ministries to demonstrate
  linkages between material and non-material
  poverty.
• Expected outcome Capacity building activities on
  growth, poverty and, access to basic services.

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Monday, June 14

• Following Stephen Commins presentation on the
  lessons on pro-poor service delivery from the
  East Asia Region and their implications on data
  collection, analysis and policymaking we are
  presenting 4 case studies of service delivery in
  health and education in the region
• In the morning session, we will have 2
  simultaneous case study presentations in health
  sector and participants will have the chance to
  choose which presentation to attend

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Monday, June 14, continued

• In the afternoon session, the same will apply for
  2 case studies in education sector
• It is encouraged to have 20-30 minutes of QA
  time in each case study presentation
• Next is the plenary session with panelists of
  case studies, a chance to discuss key issues.

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Tuesday, June 15

• In the morning, we will focus on the techniques
  and tools that are useful in designing,
  monitoring and evaluating service delivery
• After lunch, we will have a plenary session to
  discuss the format and the content of the
  following sessions
• Themes of discussion under health, education and
  decentralization
• Format of country break-out session and the
  country action plan on service delivery.

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Tuesday, June 15, continued

• In the parallel sessions, we will have 6 groups
  of participants who will discuss 2 agreed themes
  under health, education and decentralization
• The issues from individual parallel sessions will
  be shared by facilitators in a short panel
  session
• Having discussed case studies and innovative
  tools and techniques for better policymaking on
  service delivery, participants go for country
  break-out session

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Tuesday, June 15, continued

• In the country break-out session, country teams
  will discuss and prioritize important policy,
  capacity and data issues in service delivery in
  health and education sectors
• The most important output of this session will be
  a country action plan on sectoral capacity
  building to be shared in a panel session.

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Wednesday, June 16

• On the last day of the seminar, we will focus on
  the East Asia PADI action plan with a discussion
  of country-level PADI action plans prepared by
  the national coordinators
• Then we will have a chance to hear from the donor
  representatives about their perspective and
  support for PADI
• In the afternoon, we will discuss the regional
  PADI action plan and PADI management issues

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Wednesday, June 16, continued

• We will then allocate some time for filling out
  the WBI evaluations
• The closing ceremony will follow with the
  awarding of certificates.
• In the evening, we will have a dinner where Dr.
  Fasli Jalal, the Director General of Out of
  School and Youth Education under the Indonesian
  Ministry of National Education will be our guest
  speaker.

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For a Productive Seminar

• This is a full and ambitious agenda with
  interesting sessions
• We are honored to partner with SMERU and have all
  our distinguished resource people and
  participants here
• We hope that it will be a rewarding experience
  for all of us and we abide by the timing of the
  agenda
• If you have any questions/problems contact me,
  Dulce Afzal, Ludette from SMERU.

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THANK YOU

• HAVE A PRODUCTIVE SEMINAR!