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About
CBMS - Benin
Community-based monitoring system (CBMS)
work in Benin aims to improve the capacities of poor communities in
Beninin terms of monitoring and evaluating their poverty status through
the development of a CBMS. The system aims to address the information
requirements of the decentralization policy in Benin and also for
monitoring and evaluation of policies that were put in place as defined
by the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP).
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Project
Activities
- Review of information requirements
of decentralization policy as well as data needs for poverty
monitoring and evaluation of policies defined by the PRSP.
- Conduct of consultation meetings
with stakeholders to gather comments on the rationale and proposed
structure of the CBMS/ local monitoring system to be developed.
- Identification of a set of
indicators to be monitored
- Design of a community-based
monitoring system that would generate the set of indicators
identified.
- Development of the data collection
and data processing tools.
- Pilot test of the CBMS Methodology
(data collection, processing, validation and dissemination of results)
in one quartier in the City of Cotonou.
- Preparation of a profile of the
quartier based on the CBMS data gathered from the site.
- Presentation of the CBMS design and
the results of the pilot-test to various stakeholders in a workshop
for comments.
- Documentation in a report the
details of consultationmeetings, results of the pilot test, and
workshop presentations.
- Finalize the design of the CBMS
based on the comments gathered during the workshop such that the
system would be ready for implementation in teh next phase of the
project.
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Papers and Reports (links
forthcoming)
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Partner Institution
CBMS work in Benin is being
administered by the Cellule d' Analyse de Politique Economique (CAPE) in
cooperation with the Micro Impacts of Macroeconomic Adjustment Policies
(MIMAP)- Benin Project Team. It was a structure created by the
presidential decree No. 95-366 of November 21, 1995 describing its
creation, attributes, organization and functions.
Four principal missions of the
organization include;
- The conduct of studies on strategic
questions in the domain of economic policy in particular and of
development policy in general.
- the formation of national
administrative groups (directors and others responsible from the
public sector, private and non-governmental organizations) to
improve their capacity to conceive and put into application
appropriate policies.
- The installation of mechanisms for
the discussion of national questions concerning the social and
economic development of the country.
- The publication of work accomplished
based on the economic plan.
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Contact Information
Inquiries regarding CBMS-Benin
be sent to:
Madamme Marie Odile Attanasso
CBMS-Benin Project Leader
Address: Cellule d' Analyse de Politique Economique (CAPE)
2 BP 534 Cotonou, Benin
Tel#: (229) 30-68-09/ 95-52-06
Fax#: (229) 30-68-18/ 30-07-70
Email:
matanasso@yahoo.fr
Website: planben.enternet.bj/cape/index.htm
Research Team Members
Ambroise Agbota
Roland Medjigbodo M-P
Felix Sessou
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