Linking Participatory Poverty Assessments to Policy and Policymaking : Experience from Vietnam

The year 1999 was important for poverty-related research, and policy development in Vietnam. The General Statistics Office had collected household data in the second Vietnam Living Standards Survey in 1998, and made it available for analysis in 199...

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Main Author:	Turk, Carrie
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	CAS CASE STUDY CG CHILD LABOR CIVIL SOCIETY COLLABORATION COMMUNITY LEVEL DATA COLLECTION DEMOCRACY DEVELOPMENT WORK DONOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC GROWTH ELDERLY PEOPLE EMPLOYMENT ETHNIC MINORITIES EXERCISES GROUP DISCUSSIONS HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY INCIDENCE OF POVERTY INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT LIVING STANDARDS LOCAL CONDITIONS LOCAL LEVEL LONG TERM MIGRANTS NATIONAL LEVEL NATIONAL POLICY NGO NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS PARTICIPATORY POVERTY PARTICIPATORY POVERTY ASSESSMENT PARTICIPATORY POVERTY ASSESSMENTS PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH PARTICIPATORY TECHNIQUES PARTNERSHIP PER CAPITA INCOME POLICY DEBATES POLICY DEVELOPMENT POLICY DOCUMENTS POLICY ENVIRONMENT POLICY LEVEL POLICY MAKERS POLICY MESSAGES POLICY RESEARCH POOR POOR COMMUNITIES POOR HOUSEHOLDS POVERTY ALLEVIATION POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMS POVERTY ANALYSIS POVERTY ASSESSMENT POVERTY ISSUES POVERTY LINE POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION POLICY POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY POVERTY WORK PPA PROGRAMMING PROGRAMS PUBLIC EXPENDITURE PUBLIC EXPENDITURE REVIEW QUALITATIVE DATA QUALITATIVE INFORMATION QUALITATIVE RESEARCH QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS QUANTITATIVE DATA QUANTITATIVE DATA COLLECTION RESEARCH FINDINGS RESEARCH INSTITUTES RESEARCH METHODOLOGY RESEARCH TEAM RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS RURAL AREAS SAFETY SAFETY NETS SOCIAL SERVICES STATISTICS OFFICE TECHNICAL CAPACITY TRANSPARENCY
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spelling	okr-10986-197352021-04-23T14:03:44Z Linking Participatory Poverty Assessments to Policy and Policymaking : Experience from Vietnam Turk, Carrie CAS CASE STUDY CG CHILD LABOR CIVIL SOCIETY COLLABORATION COMMUNITY LEVEL DATA COLLECTION DEMOCRACY DEVELOPMENT WORK DONOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC GROWTH ELDERLY PEOPLE EMPLOYMENT ETHNIC MINORITIES EXERCISES GROUP DISCUSSIONS HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY INCIDENCE OF POVERTY INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT LIVING STANDARDS LOCAL CONDITIONS LOCAL LEVEL LONG TERM MIGRANTS NATIONAL LEVEL NATIONAL POLICY NGO NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS PARTICIPATORY POVERTY PARTICIPATORY POVERTY ASSESSMENT PARTICIPATORY POVERTY ASSESSMENTS PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH PARTICIPATORY TECHNIQUES PARTNERSHIP PER CAPITA INCOME POLICY DEBATES POLICY DEVELOPMENT POLICY DOCUMENTS POLICY ENVIRONMENT POLICY LEVEL POLICY MAKERS POLICY MESSAGES POLICY RESEARCH POOR POOR COMMUNITIES POOR HOUSEHOLDS POVERTY ALLEVIATION POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMS POVERTY ANALYSIS POVERTY ASSESSMENT POVERTY ISSUES POVERTY LINE POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION POLICY POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY POVERTY WORK PPA PROGRAMMING PROGRAMS PUBLIC EXPENDITURE PUBLIC EXPENDITURE REVIEW QUALITATIVE DATA QUALITATIVE INFORMATION QUALITATIVE RESEARCH QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS QUANTITATIVE DATA QUANTITATIVE DATA COLLECTION RESEARCH FINDINGS RESEARCH INSTITUTES RESEARCH METHODOLOGY RESEARCH TEAM RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS RURAL AREAS SAFETY SAFETY NETS SOCIAL SERVICES STATISTICS OFFICE TECHNICAL CAPACITY TRANSPARENCY The year 1999 was important for poverty-related research, and policy development in Vietnam. The General Statistics Office had collected household data in the second Vietnam Living Standards Survey in 1998, and made it available for analysis in 1999. And four participatory poverty assessments (PPAs) were implemented during 1999. The author's case study describes how government agencies, donors, and nongovernmental organizations collaborated in implementing the PPAs. The considerable amount of qualitative information about poverty produced in Vietnam over the past eight to ten years has rarely grabbed the attention of policymakers, who tend to view such information as "unscientific" and lacking in credibility. By contrast, the PPAs implemented in 1999 have been widely circulated, used, and quoted. What was different about those PPAs that led their findings to be brought into local, and national policy debates, as previous findings had not been? Working partnerships among donors, and nongovernmental organizations were important, and helped build consensus on the research findings, but more crucial was the active engagement of government partners from the very early stages. Establishing a Poverty Working Group provided a structure for implementing the PPAs, for feeding analysis through to the poverty assessment, and for keeping government fully involved. The Poverty Working Group now supports the government in drafting its poverty reduction strategy. Strong World Bank leadership, financial support from the U.K. Department for International Development, the technical expertise, and commitment of the PPA partners agencies, and the availability of recent high-quality household survey data, played an important part in ensuring the PPAs' credibility. 2014-08-26T21:43:34Z 2014-08-26T21:43:34Z 2001-01 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/01/1121143/linking-participatory-poverty-assessments-policy-policymaking-experience-vietnam http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19735 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 2526 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research East Asia and Pacific Vietnam
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topic	CAS CASE STUDY CG CHILD LABOR CIVIL SOCIETY COLLABORATION COMMUNITY LEVEL DATA COLLECTION DEMOCRACY DEVELOPMENT WORK DONOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC GROWTH ELDERLY PEOPLE EMPLOYMENT ETHNIC MINORITIES EXERCISES GROUP DISCUSSIONS HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY INCIDENCE OF POVERTY INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT LIVING STANDARDS LOCAL CONDITIONS LOCAL LEVEL LONG TERM MIGRANTS NATIONAL LEVEL NATIONAL POLICY NGO NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS PARTICIPATORY POVERTY PARTICIPATORY POVERTY ASSESSMENT PARTICIPATORY POVERTY ASSESSMENTS PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH PARTICIPATORY TECHNIQUES PARTNERSHIP PER CAPITA INCOME POLICY DEBATES POLICY DEVELOPMENT POLICY DOCUMENTS POLICY ENVIRONMENT POLICY LEVEL POLICY MAKERS POLICY MESSAGES POLICY RESEARCH POOR POOR COMMUNITIES POOR HOUSEHOLDS POVERTY ALLEVIATION POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMS POVERTY ANALYSIS POVERTY ASSESSMENT POVERTY ISSUES POVERTY LINE POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION POLICY POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY POVERTY WORK PPA PROGRAMMING PROGRAMS PUBLIC EXPENDITURE PUBLIC EXPENDITURE REVIEW QUALITATIVE DATA QUALITATIVE INFORMATION QUALITATIVE RESEARCH QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS QUANTITATIVE DATA QUANTITATIVE DATA COLLECTION RESEARCH FINDINGS RESEARCH INSTITUTES RESEARCH METHODOLOGY RESEARCH TEAM RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS RURAL AREAS SAFETY SAFETY NETS SOCIAL SERVICES STATISTICS OFFICE TECHNICAL CAPACITY TRANSPARENCY
spellingShingle	CAS CASE STUDY CG CHILD LABOR CIVIL SOCIETY COLLABORATION COMMUNITY LEVEL DATA COLLECTION DEMOCRACY DEVELOPMENT WORK DONOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC GROWTH ELDERLY PEOPLE EMPLOYMENT ETHNIC MINORITIES EXERCISES GROUP DISCUSSIONS HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY INCIDENCE OF POVERTY INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT LIVING STANDARDS LOCAL CONDITIONS LOCAL LEVEL LONG TERM MIGRANTS NATIONAL LEVEL NATIONAL POLICY NGO NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS PARTICIPATORY POVERTY PARTICIPATORY POVERTY ASSESSMENT PARTICIPATORY POVERTY ASSESSMENTS PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH PARTICIPATORY TECHNIQUES PARTNERSHIP PER CAPITA INCOME POLICY DEBATES POLICY DEVELOPMENT POLICY DOCUMENTS POLICY ENVIRONMENT POLICY LEVEL POLICY MAKERS POLICY MESSAGES POLICY RESEARCH POOR POOR COMMUNITIES POOR HOUSEHOLDS POVERTY ALLEVIATION POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMS POVERTY ANALYSIS POVERTY ASSESSMENT POVERTY ISSUES POVERTY LINE POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION POLICY POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY POVERTY WORK PPA PROGRAMMING PROGRAMS PUBLIC EXPENDITURE PUBLIC EXPENDITURE REVIEW QUALITATIVE DATA QUALITATIVE INFORMATION QUALITATIVE RESEARCH QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS QUANTITATIVE DATA QUANTITATIVE DATA COLLECTION RESEARCH FINDINGS RESEARCH INSTITUTES RESEARCH METHODOLOGY RESEARCH TEAM RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS RURAL AREAS SAFETY SAFETY NETS SOCIAL SERVICES STATISTICS OFFICE TECHNICAL CAPACITY TRANSPARENCY Turk, Carrie Linking Participatory Poverty Assessments to Policy and Policymaking : Experience from Vietnam
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description	The year 1999 was important for poverty-related research, and policy development in Vietnam. The General Statistics Office had collected household data in the second Vietnam Living Standards Survey in 1998, and made it available for analysis in 1999. And four participatory poverty assessments (PPAs) were implemented during 1999. The author's case study describes how government agencies, donors, and nongovernmental organizations collaborated in implementing the PPAs. The considerable amount of qualitative information about poverty produced in Vietnam over the past eight to ten years has rarely grabbed the attention of policymakers, who tend to view such information as "unscientific" and lacking in credibility. By contrast, the PPAs implemented in 1999 have been widely circulated, used, and quoted. What was different about those PPAs that led their findings to be brought into local, and national policy debates, as previous findings had not been? Working partnerships among donors, and nongovernmental organizations were important, and helped build consensus on the research findings, but more crucial was the active engagement of government partners from the very early stages. Establishing a Poverty Working Group provided a structure for implementing the PPAs, for feeding analysis through to the poverty assessment, and for keeping government fully involved. The Poverty Working Group now supports the government in drafting its poverty reduction strategy. Strong World Bank leadership, financial support from the U.K. Department for International Development, the technical expertise, and commitment of the PPA partners agencies, and the availability of recent high-quality household survey data, played an important part in ensuring the PPAs' credibility.
format	Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
author	Turk, Carrie
author_facet	Turk, Carrie
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title	Linking Participatory Poverty Assessments to Policy and Policymaking : Experience from Vietnam
title_short	Linking Participatory Poverty Assessments to Policy and Policymaking : Experience from Vietnam
title_full	Linking Participatory Poverty Assessments to Policy and Policymaking : Experience from Vietnam
title_fullStr	Linking Participatory Poverty Assessments to Policy and Policymaking : Experience from Vietnam
title_full_unstemmed	Linking Participatory Poverty Assessments to Policy and Policymaking : Experience from Vietnam
title_sort	linking participatory poverty assessments to policy and policymaking : experience from vietnam
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2014
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/01/1121143/linking-participatory-poverty-assessments-policy-policymaking-experience-vietnam http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19735
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