STATE PROGRAMME On Poverty Reduction

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STATE PROGRAMMEOn Poverty Reduction Economic
Development, 2003 2005Azerbaijan

• Introduction
• Programme Stages
• Programme Implementation
• Programme ME

Presented on June 20, 2006, IDEAS Workshop,
Prague Czech Republic
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Programme stages

• Transition stage 1996 2002
• GDP-1.7 times, Capital Investment-7.8, income of
  population-3, average monthly wages and
  pensions-5 times, etc.
  
• SPPREDMDG 2003 2005
• Joint Declaration, 2006-2015
• Azerbaijan Government, ADB, EBRD,
• IMF, UNDP, WB - long-term strategy of PRMDGs

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Programme Implementation

• central and local executive bodies
• international donor organizations
• national donor organizations (State Oil Fond)
• foreign and local NGOs
• civil society

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Programme ME
SECRETARIAT (Ministry of Economic Development)

• Sectors Working Group
• PMU
• Budget
• Participatory Process

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Sectors Working group

• The experts team liaised with the 15 Sector
  Working Groups
  
• Investment Policy, Economic Development, Poverty
  Monitoring, Fiscal Policy, Monetary and Rate
  Policy, Social Protection, Education, Health,
  IDPs and Refugees, Energy, Juridical Sector,
  Agriculture, Environment, TourismSports and
  Culture, Role of Municipalities in PR.
• This team also visited the regions, in order to
  do selected on-site monitoringevaluation of
  implementation progress.
  

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PMU
A second team, working in the PMU, continued
its work on collecting statistical information
related to monitoring and evaluation the final
poverty impact of the policy measures being
implemented under the SPPRED. The PMU experts
also liaised with the UN on formulating and
updating of the MDG targets and indicators
specific for Azerbaijan.
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Budget

• A third team is working on the monitoring and
  evaluation of budget expenditure, checking that
  the budget allocations is in line with SPPRED
  priorities, and that the policy measures
  envisaged in SPPRED were in fact being financed
  by either domestic sources, or donor aid.

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Participatory Process

• A fourth team is coordinating
• work on taking forward the participatory
  discussion process.
  
• This discussion process was carried out
• within the framework of a series of Town Hall
  Meetings held in various regional centres of the
  country.
  

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Strategy

• the facilitation of an enabling environment for
  growth of income-generating opportunities
  
• maintenance of macroeconomic stability
• improvement in the quality of, and equity in
  access to,
  
• basic health and education services
• improvement of infrastructure (including roads,
  delivery of utility services, communications,
  irrigation)
  
• reform of the existing system of social
  protection to
  
• give more effective protection to the
  vulnerable
  
• improvement of the living conditions and
• opportunities of the refugees and IDP
  population.
  

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Process

• Multiple Indicators Cluster Surveys
• Household Budget Survey (HBS) (TA UNDP, WB, EU
  FSP)
  
• Labour Force Survey (LFS) to monitor employment
  in the formal and informal sectors of the economy
  (International Labour Office (ILO)UNDP)
  
• Annual survey of the refugees and IDPs to monitor
  changes in their living conditions
  
• Survey on gender and poverty (State Committee for
  Womens Issues)
  
• Qualitative/participatory work on populations
  perceptions of the definition and reasons for
  poverty in the country (USAID, UNDP, ADB and
  German Government)

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Challenges

• Baselines and Indicators
• Lack of a strong statistical base for setting
  baselines for targets, and also for defining
  sensible monitoring indicators.
  
• Proposed to take 2001/02 (not 1990) as the
  baseline year for all country-specific targets.
  Align the MDG process with that of SPPRED.
  
• TA of UNDP and ADB on further developing the
  monitoring
  
• and evaluation system, in order to identify
  suitable impact and process indicators to monitor
  achievement of the MDG targets.
  
• Costing
• Linking policy measures to budget
  possibilities.
  
• TA of UNDP and USAID in design of the countrys
  PIP,
  
• Localisation of MDGs
• No work has yet been attempted in the sphere of
  localizing MDGs at the regional level, although
  some discussion has begun within the context of
  the regional Town Hall Meetings.

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Can Azerbaijan Achieve theMDGs?

• Azerbaijan has the prospect of significant
  increases in revenue from oil production
  (Presidential Decree on The Long-Term Strategy
  onthe Management of Oil and Gas Revenues (128,
  27 September 2004).
• Azerbaijan is also relatively advantaged due to
  its human resources. The country has high levels
  of education and almost universal literacy. State
  Program with the UNDP on Converting black gold
  into human gold,
• Azerbaijan has gained the trust of the donor
  community
  
• Azerbaijan has demonstrated its determination to
  improve governance through the recent Law on
  Combating Corruption
  
• The MPR ranks Azerbaijan as one of the countries
  which can be placed on the fast track for
  achieving the MDGs
  

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