Workshop on poverty and social impact analysis in Sub-Saharan Africa

Uganda Bureau of Statistics, Economic Policy Research Center, University of Laval, Poverty and Economic Policy Network and UNDP

Jinja Nile Resort - 23-27 November 2009

Facilitators: Abdelkrim Araar, Sami Bibi and Jean-Yves Duclos

The objectives of this pilot workshop are to: (i) test a set of training materials using a new software; (ii) enhance the skills of researchers and officials to conduct poverty and social impact assessments using quantitative data and state-of-the-art methods; (iii) begin to generate specific country analyses that deal with pressing policy concerns; (vi) support the building of country teams that can collaborate and strengthen national networks for welfare analysis beyond the duration of the workshop; (v) and share experiences between African countries that have made important advancements in the area of poverty analysis.

Material and references

The workshop will make use of DASP (Distributive Analysis for Stata Package) to illustrate and apply the measurement and policy tools that will be presented. This is available at: http://dasp.ecn.ulaval.ca/

The workshop will serve to test a number of training modules that will be made available to participants at the workshop and later shared on an online platform.

Apart from the material that will be distributed in advance of and during the workshop, the participants can also access freely the book by Jean-Yves Duclos and Abdelkrim Araar (Springer, 2006) available at: http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-97152-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

Workshop coverage and format

The workshop will cover the following topics:

• Concepts and measurement of well-being (including concepts of multidimensionality)
• Basic normative and descriptive tools for understanding and comparing welfare
• Inequality and equity
• Poverty indices and poverty lines (including how to adjust for spatial and temporal differences in prices and poverty baskets)
• Robustness and dominance
• Pro-poor analysis
• Impact analysis of fiscal and macro shocks
• Targeting and benefit incidence
• Measurement of multidimensional poverty
• Welfare dynamics and use of panel data

The daily schedule of the workshop is:

• 09:00-10:30 Workshop
• 10:30-11:00 Break
• 11:00-12:30 Workshop
• 12:30-14:00 Lunch
• 14:00-15:30 Workshop
• 15:30-16:00 Break
• 16:00-17:30 Workshop
• 19:00 Country consultations on data and research issues

Workshop programme

9:00 - TOPIC: Inequality and equity

• 9:00-9:45 - Presentation (Facilitators)
• 9:45-10:30 - Exercises (Participants)
• 10:30-11:00 - Break
• 11:00-12:00 Exercises (cont) (Participants)
• 12:00-12:30 Discussions of technical and policy issues (All)

12:30-14:00 - Lunch

14:00 - TOPIC: Poverty indices and poverty lines (including how to adjust for spatial and temporal differences in prices and poverty baskets)

• 14:00-14:45 - Presentation (Facilitators)
• 14:45-15:30 - Exercises (Participants)
• 15:30-16:00 - Break
• 16:00-17:00 - Exercises (cont) (Participants)
• 17:00-17:30 Discussions of technical and policy issues (All)

19:00 - Country consultations (Ghana team/ facilitators)

Wednesday 25 November

9:00 - TOPIC: Robustness and dominance

• 9:00-9:45 - Presentation (Facilitators)
• 9:45-10:30 - Exercises (Participants)
• 10:30-11:00 - Break
• 11:00-12:00 - Exercises (cont) (Participants)
• 12:00-12:30 - Discussions of technical and policy issues (All)

12:30-14:00 - Lunch

14:00 - TOPIC: Pro-poor analysis

• 14:00-14:45 - Presentation (Facilitators)
• 14:45-15:30 - Exercises (Participants)
• 15:30-16:00 - Break
• 16:00-17:00 - Exercises (cont) (Participants)
• 17:00-17:30 - Discussions of technical and policy issues (All)

19:00 - Country consultations (Mozambique team/ facilitators)

Thursday 26 November

9:00 - TOPIC: Impact analysis of fiscal and macro shocks

• 9:00-9:45 - Presentation (Facilitators)
• 9:45-10:30 - Exercises (Participants)
• 10:30-11:00 - Break
• 11:00-12:00 - Exercises (cont) (Participants)
• 12:00-12:30 - Discussions of technical and policy issues (All)

12:30-14:00 - Lunch

14:00 - TOPIC: Targeting and benefit incidence

• 14:00-14:45 - Presentation (Facilitators)
• 14:45-15:30 - Exercises (Participants)
• 15:30-16:00 - Break
• 16:00-17:00 - Exercises (cont) (Participants)
• 17:00-17:30 - Discussions of technical and policy issues (All)

19:00 - Country consultations (Uganda team/ facilitators)

Friday 27 November

9:00 - TOPIC: Measurement of multidimensional poverty

• 9:00-9:45 - Presentation (Participants)
• 9:45-10:30 - Exercises
• 10:30-11:00 - Break (Participants)
• 11:00-12:00 - Exercises (cont) (All)
• 12:00-12:30 - Discussions of technical and policy issues

12:30-14:00 - Lunch

14:00 - TOPIC: Welfare dynamics and use of panel data (Facilitators)

• 14:00-14:45 - Presentation (Participants)
• 14:45-15:30 - Exercises
• 15:30-16:00 - Break and evaluation (Participants)
• 16:00-17:00 - Exercises (cont) (All)
• 17:00-17:30 - Discussions of technical and policy issues (Uganda team/ facilitators)

17:30 - Way forward and closing