Can the Poor Influence Policy?: Participatory Poverty Assessments in the Developing World Ssments

by Robb, Caroline M.

• ISBN13: 9780821341445
• ISBN10: 0821341448
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: World Bank

Table of Contents

Foreword	v	(3)
Acknowledgments	viii	(2)
Abbreviations and Acronyms	x	(2)
Summary	xii
1. A Status Report	1	(18)
1.1 Introduction	1	(3)
1.2 What Is a Participatory Poverty Assessment?	4	(2)
1.3 How Are Participatory Poverty Assessments Conducted?	6	(9)
1.4 What Is the Current Status of PPAs?	15	(4)
2. Impact of the PPA	19	(18)
2.1 Deepening the Understanding of Poverty	22	(4)
2.2 Attitudes and Policy Change	26	(3)
2.3 Strengthening the Capacity to Deliver Policy	29	(2)
2.4 Determinants of the Level of Impact	31	(6)
3. Emerging Good Practice	37	(29)
3.1 At the World Bank: Initial Steps and Follow-up	37	(10)
3.2 At the Country Level: Listening to Policymakers and Opening Up Dialogue	47	(8)
3.3 At the Community Level: Including the Poor	55	(11)
The Challenge for Participatory Poverty Assessments	66	(1)
Bibliography	67	(6)
Annexes	73
Annex 1. Methodology	74	(13)
Annex 2. Impact	87	(14)
Annex 3. Poverty Assessments, Completed and Scheduled	101	(2)
Annex 4. Examples of PRA Exercises in Thailand (1998) and Zambia (1996)	103	(1)
Annex 5. Country Case Examples	104	(24)
Annex 6. Methodology of This Review	128
Tables, Figures, and Boxes
Table 1a. Methodologies Used	6
Table 1b. Time Spent in the Field	7
Table 1c. Number of Communities Assessed	7
Table 1d. Agency Conducting the Fieldwork	7
Table 1e. Cost	7
Table 1f. Year of Fieldwork	8
Table 2. Comparison of Participatory Methodologies	12
Table 3. Range of PPA Impacts	20
Table 4. Summary of PPA Impacts	32
Table 5. Summary of Impact Variables	33
Table A1. PPA Outputs and Applications	113
Figure 1. Good Practice Research Cycle	10
Figure 2. PPA Impact by Quality of Research Team	33
Figure 3. PPA Impact by Quality of PPA Manager and Level of Bank Management Support	34
Figure 4. PPA Impact by Link to Poverty Assessment	35
Figure 5. PPA Impact by World Bank and Government Ownership	35
Figure 6. PPA Impact by Level of Policymaker Involvement	36
Figure 7. Information Filters and Biases: Case Study of the PPA in Zambia	63
Box 1. Background to the World Bank's Participatory Poverty Assessment	4
Box 2. Participatory Poverty Monitoring in Zambia	9
Box 3. World Bank Participatory Poverty Assessments: Status Report	16
Box 4. Examples of Planned PPAs	17
Box 5. Enriching the Diagnosis of the Nature of Poverty	22
Box 6. Examples of Explanations Provided by PPAs	24
Box 7. Twelve Hallmarks of Good PPAs	38
Box 8. What Is Poverty Reduction?	39
Box 9. Factors for the World Bank to Consider to Increase the Impact of PPAs	45
Box 10. Handing Over the Document Does Not Equal Ownership	51
Box 11. Participation Is More Than Holding Workshops	52
Box 12. Where Is the Entry Point for Participatory Research Data? Considering the Institutional Framework	54
Box 13. Factors to Consider at the National Level to Increase the Impact of PPAs	54
Box 14. Factors to Consider at the Community Level to Increase Impact of the PPA	64