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Title: Child Poverty Indices in Vietnam: a new policy tool


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Child Poverty Indices in Vietnam a new policy
tool
  • Keetie Roelen, Franziska Gassmann and Chris de
    Neubourg, 27 June 2007

2
Development of a child poverty approach for
Vietnam
  • Research project for Unicef Vietnam, in
    collaboration with the Ministry of Labour,
    Invalids and Social Affairs (Molisa)
  • First part of project completed in December 2006,
    extension of project takes place from July 2007
    June 2008
  • to develop a practical child poverty measurement
    tool.

3
Why do we want to measure child poverty?
  • Children are more vulnerable to poverty
  • Poor children become poor adults
  • Children have different basic needs than adults
  • if you cant measure it, you cant manage it.

4
Why do Unicef Vietnam and Molisa want to measure
child poverty?
  • Two main purposes
  • Advocacy putting the issue on the agenda
  • Policy information feeding into the policy
    process

5
What did we learn from existing child poverty
approaches?
  • Approaches range from income- or consumption
    based to multi-dimensional focus
  • Approaches range in using single indicator output
    products to all-compassing analyses
  • Approaches are built up around the same
    structure
  • - overall concept and rationale
  • - dimensions
  • - indicators
  • - end products

6
(Child) poverty as understood in Vietnam
  • Monetary concept
  • Poor children represent one of nine categories of
    Children under Special Circumstances
  • Input based rather than outcome based.

7
Concept of child poverty approach
  • Multi-dimensional
  • Outcome based
  • Based on the Conventions of the Rights of the
    Child (CRC) and the basic needs approach
  • Incorporates children up to 16 years of age.

8
Theoretical framework (1) choice of domains
  • Use of various selection methods
  • Assumptions and expert opinion
  • 2) Public consensus
  • 3) Participatory processes
  • 4) Assessment of data availability.

9
Theoretical framework (2) choice of domains
  • 8 domains
  • Education
  • Nutrition
  • Health
  • Shelter
  • Water and sanitation
  • Labor
  • Leisure
  • Social inclusion and protection.

10
Theoretical framework (3) selection of
indicators
  • Selection criteria
  • Child-specific
  • Easily observable and measurable
  • Easily interpretable
  • Objective
  • Decomposable.

11
Theoretical framework (4) selection of
indicators
  • Illustrations of the selection process
  • access to education indicator on travel distance
    or travel time to school?
  • having private space indicator on m2 per
    household member of having own room/bed?
  • dental hygiene indicator on number of visits to
    dentist or use of toothbrush?

12
Recommendations for end products/presentation of
output
  • Advocacy purpose
  • Child poverty rate
  • Policy input purpose
  • Child indicator matrix
  • Child domain indices
  • Child poverty index

13
What distinguishes this approach from other child
poverty approaches?
  • Approach is country-specific
  • Approach has a positive outlook
  • Approach is child-specific
  • Approach is versatile.

14
Next steps
  • Applying the theoretical framework to the data
  • use of VHLSS 2004 and MICS 2006

15
Child Poverty Indices in Vietnam a new policy
tool
  • Keetie Roelen, Franziska Gassmann and Chris de
    Neubourg, 27 June 2007
  • keetie.roelen_at_governance.unimaas.nl

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