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Agenda, Presentations and Papers:
South Asia Poverty Monitoring and Evaluation Workshop
June 8-10, 2000
New Delhi, India


Day One (Thursday June 8)


9-10.00 am Registration
10.00-10.30 am Opening remarks (15 kb pdf), Mieko Nishimizu Vice-President, South Asia Region, World Bank


      SESSION 1: ISSUES IN POVERTY M&E

      Theory

      Chair: Dr Rajakutty, Director, Center for Monitoring and Evaluation, National Institute for Rural Development, Hyderabad.

        Evaluating the impacts of project interventions (197 kb pdf), K. Subbarao
        K. Subbarao is a Lead Economist in the World Bank and co-leader of the Bank's Thematic Group on Poverty M&E. He is the author of several reports on the subject, and presents the results of his research and analysis.

        Participation, process, and the social dimension of M&E (507 kb pdf), Alex MacGillivray

        Alex MacGillivray is Deputy Director of the New Economics Foundation in London, UK. His presentation reflects on the work the NEF is doing in the UK and elsewhere to develop participatory tools for M&E, such as participatory monitoring and social audits.



      Practice

      Chair: S.P. Pal, Advisor (Evaluation), Planning Commission, Government of India

        Bolivia Social Fund Investment, John Newman
        This good-practice case-study presentation looks at the Bolivia Social Investment Fund which covers investments in education, health and water. It has a strong M&E design, and results are now available on impact evaluation, targeting and cost. John Newman is a Principal Economist with the World Bank, based in Le Paz, and has been working on M&E for the Bolivia Social Investment Fund over the last ten years.



    SESSION 2: M&E OF KEY INTERVENTIONS

    2.30-5.00 Parallel Sessions

    (i) Participatory Rural Projects I

    UP Land Reclamation Project (223 kb pdf) R.K. Ojha - Chandramohan Mishra


    Messrs.Mishra and Ohja are Senior Research Associates with the Agriculture Management Centre at the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow, which has responsibility for M&E of the UP Land Reclamation Project (UP Sodic). Their presentation on UP Sodic M&E includes results on the impact of UP Sodic on income, employment, poverty and income inequality.

    A.P. Forestry (109 kb pdf) P. Raghuveer - S. Mukherjee
    Shivdas Mukherjee is Secretary, Forestry and P. Raghuveer is Conservator of Forests both in AP. Their presentation focuses on the results from an impact assessment of the Joint Forest Management Programme using a set of 14 performance indicators

    Discussant: Pawan G. Patil, Economist, World Bank.
    Chair: Mariana Todorova, World Bank Country Director for Sri Lanka..

    (ii) Participatory Rural Projects II

    India Watershed Projects (51 kb pdf) John Kerr

    John Kerr is an agricultural economist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Resource Development at the Michigan State University. This quantitative/qualitative evaluation of watershed projects in India is a pioneering attempt to learn lessons from a portfolio, rather than a single project. The study looks at a variety projects sponsored by Government, the World Bank and NGOs, and the role of participation in the success of these projects.

    Impact Assessment Studies of Rural Development Programmes in India (63 kb pdf) P.V. Thomas
    Dr PV Thomas is Economic Advisor, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India and is responsible for the M&E of all GOI anti-poverty programs. The Ministry of Rural Development is undertaking village-based Impact Assessment Studies in 12 Districts of 9 States with a view to assessing the overall impact of the poverty alleviation programs of the Ministry in selected villages and to make mid-course corrections in program implementation.

    Discussant: Ghazala Mansuri, Economist, World Bank.
    Chair: Dr Azizullah Khattak, Chief Statistical Officer, Federal Bureau of Statistics, Government of Pakistan.

    (iii) Participatory Rural Projects III

    Sri Lanka Community Water Supply and Sanitation Program (78 kb pdf) W. Piyasena
    Mr Piyasena is Project Director of the CWSSP. His presentation focuses on participatory monitoring for sustainable and effective use of water and sanitation services.

    UP and Karnataka Rural Water Supply and Sanitation (RWSS) Projects (149 kb pdf) Parmeswaran Iyer
    Parmeswaran Iyer formerly managed the UP RWSS project, and is now with the South Asia Water and Sanitation Program. The presentation focuses on the use of process and sustainability processes in the India RWSS projects.

    Community Infrastructure Project, NWFP, Pakistan (61 kb pdf) Mehreen Hosain/Julie Viloria
    The Community Infrastructure Project (CIP) is aimed at infrastructure upgrading in more than 80 rural and urban low-income communities in the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan. It has developed with an emphasis on process monitoring, a management tool designed to help organizations become more participatory and demand-responsive. Mehreen Hosain is part of the CIP's Process Monitoring Team and has co-authored a process monitoring manual based on the CIP experience. Julie Viloria is the Bank task-manager for the project.


      Discussant: David Marsden, Senior Anthropologist, World Bank.
      Chair: Safdar Parvez, Program Manager, Policy and Research, AKRSP.


    Day Two (Friday June 9)

    SESSION 3: ISSUES IN POVERTY M&E (CONT.)

    Organizing for M&E

      Learning from M&E (21 kb pdf) Osvaldo N. Feinstein, OED, World Bank

        P.V. Thomas Economic Advisor, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India

      Poverty Monitoring and Evaluation in BRAC (16 kb pdf)
        A. Hadi Senior Research Sociologist, BRAC, Bangladesh
      Lessons from working with the Government in Balochistan (62 kb pdf)

        Brian Spicer Senior Technical Advisor, Academy for Educational Development, Washington DC

        This session looks at organizational issues relating to M&E. Do governments, development agencies, implementing agencies and NGOs actually learn from M&E results? How to encourage that this learning does take place?

        Osvaldo Feinstein is Manager for Knowledge and Partnerships at the Operations Evaluation Department of the World Bank. Dr PV Thomas is Economic Advisor, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India and is responsible for the M&E of all GOI anti-poverty programs. Dr A. Hadi is with BRAC's Research and Evaluation Department. BRAC. Brian Spicer worked for 6 years on the M&E system for the Balochistan Education Project.

        Chair: Edwin Lim, World Bank Country Director for India


    Monitoring and Evaluation for Good Governance and Transparency - Samuel Paul

    Samuel Paul is Chairperson for the Public Affairs Center, based in Bangalore, which promotes the monitoring and evaluation of government activities by citizens to reduce corruption and improve service delivery.

    Chair: Shekhar Shah, Lead Economist, World Bank.


    SESSION 4: M&E OF KEY INTERVENTIONS (CONT.)

    2.30-5.00 Parallel Sessions

    (i) Infrastructure

    Bangladesh Second Rural Roads to Markets Project (90 kb pdf)- Zaid Bhakt
    Dr. Zaid Bhakt is with the Bangladesh Institute for Development Studies, the agency with responsibility for M&E for this project. The paper includes results from various impact studies associated with the project.

    Impact of AP Irrigation Reforms (249 kb pdf) - Jasveen Jairath
    This paper evaluates the transition to water-user associations in the irrigation sector in AP based on fieldwork as well as secondary data. Dr Jairath is the General Secretary of the Society for Participatory Development in Hyderabad.


      Discussants: Tara Vishwanath, Senior Economist, World Bank. Rohini Pande, Assistant Professor of Economics, Columbia.

      Chair: Fred Temple, World Bank Country Director for Bangladesh
    (ii) Social Sectors

    Pakistan Social Action Program (88 kb pdf) - Abid Ahmed Mallick

    Abid Ahmed Mallick is the M&E Specialist at the Multi-Donor Support Unit for Social Action Programme (SAP). SAP is one of most critical initiatives in Pakistan to alleviate poverty and improve lagging social indicators. The presentation describes SAP's systems for audit, monitoring and impact assessment, and report on what these systems have shown.

    India District Primary Education Project (767 kb pdf)- Yash Aggarwal
    Yash Aggarwal is Senior Fellow and Head, Operations Research and Systems Management Unit at the National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration. His paper analyzes the District Primary Education Project, an extensive elementary education project operating throughout rural India, perhaps the Bank's largest investment in the social sectors worldwide.


      Discussants: Esther Duflo, Assistant Professor of Economics, MIT.
      John Newman, Principal Economist, World Bank.
      Brian Spicer, Senior Technical Advisor, Academy for Education Development.

      Chair: Manny Jimenez, South Asia Education Sector Director, World Bank



    Day Three (Saturday June 10)


    SESSION 5: NEW DEVELOPMENTS/WORKS IN PROGRESS

    This session deals with new initiatives, and with work which is still in the design stage or in progress.

    10.00-11.40 Parallel Sessions

    (i) National, State and Sectoral Poverty M&E Systems

    The role of Poverty M&E in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) (201 kb pdf) - K. Subbarao
    The Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers which the Bank and IMF are jointly promoting give a heavy emphasis to nationwide poverty monitoring. How are efforts towards building national poverty M&E systems proceeding, and what are the lessons?

    Uttar Pradesh Poverty and Social Monitoring System (29 kb pdf) - Salman Zaidi
    The UP PSMS is designed to track poverty and intermediate indicators to assess the impact of reforms and allow for corrective measures. It is being implemented in the state of Uttar Pradesh, in which the Bank is developing a large program of support. Salman Zaidi is an Economist with the World Bank and has been assisting in development and implementation of the PSMS.

    Bangladesh Health and Population Sector Program (163 kb pdf)- Abdo Yazbeck

    M&E arrangements for the large Bangladesh Health and Population Sector Programme are tied to the sector as a whole, rather than a particular intervention. M&E mechanisms include: annual monitoring of intermediate outcomes feeding into an annual review and agreement on an expenditure plan; a combination of quantitative and qualitative data collection methods collected through an independent NGO; and annual household surveys. Abdo Yazbeck is a Health Economist with the World Bank and helped design the M&E arrangements.

      Chair: Kapil Kapoor, Lead Economist, World Bank

    (ii) District Poverty Initiative Projects

    The District Poverty Initiative Projects (DPIPs) are community-led anti-poverty programs being supported by the Bank in three Indian states. Preparation of two of these projects has been completed (AP and Rajasthan), and preparation of the third (in MP) is well advance. All three projects give a heavy emphasis to poverty monitoring and evaluation. This session explores the different DPIP M&E designs. The speakers include World Bank staff with M&E responsibilities.

      AP DPIP (84 kb pdf)- Tara Vishwanath/Ghazala Mansuri

      MP DPIP (30 kb pdf)- Ruth Alsop

      Rajasthan DPIP (65 kb pdf)- Meera Chatterjee

      Chair: Dr PV Thomas, Economic Advisor, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India



    12.00-1.30 Parallel Sessions
    (i) Rural Poverty Alleviation I

    Development Audit (34 kb pdf) - Frances Sinha

    Frances Sinha is executive director and economist with EDA Rural Systems which specialises in social planning and assessment. Development Audit is an M&E tool to facilitate participation of key stakeholders, improve development planning and organisational accountability. The presentation is based on recent and on-going work in India.

    Monitoring Social Sustainability: UP Land Reclamation Project (1024 kb pdf) - Sanjay Verma

    Sanjay Verma is a Statistician with the UPBSN, which is implementing the UP Land Reclamation Project. UPBSN is developing a new index to monitor the sustainability of project interventions.

    India User Group Study (19 kb pdf) - Ruth Alsop
    Ruth Alsop is task-managing an evaluation study of various Bank-sponsored India projects which rely on user groups (such as irrigation, forestry, land reclamation).


      Chair: Lynn Bennett, South Asia Social Development Manager, World Bank

    (ii) Rural Poverty Alleviation II

    Agricultural Technologies and Poverty Reduction: Impact studies from Maharashtra and Rajasthan (75 kb pdf) - D. Parthasarathy
    D. Parthasarthy is Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Indian Institute of Technology, Powai. This paper – which is co-authored with MCS Bantilan, R Padmaja and VK Chopde, all of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics – is based on pilot surveys carried out to assess the impact of new agricultural technologies developed by ICRISAT and adopted by farmers in these two states. The project aims to develop a methodology for poverty monitoring and evaluation. and to carry out a social and economic poverty impact assessment of two agricultural technologies. Apart from studying efficiency and productivity gains, the project also looks at other factors such as empowerment, gender, labour and employment, food security, and sustainability.

    Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (666 kb pdf) Qazi Asmat Isa
    The Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) is a newly-launched program in Pakistan to support NGO poverty alleviation efforts. The M&E system includes baseline analysis, input monitoring, output monitoring, process monitoring, impact evaluation and review. Qazi Asmat Isa works for the World Bank in Islamabad and is Task Manager for the PPAF.

    M&E in CARE, Bangladesh (72 kb pdf) - Faheem Khan
    CARE Bangladesh and DFID Bangladesh are collaborating on the development of a Livelihoods Monitoring System. The objective is an all-encompassing system drawing upon both the participatory and the questionnaire-Based monitoring and evaluation methods, in conjunction with specific livelihood indicators, data collection and methods of analysis, which allow the projects to assess their impacts on beneficiaries. Faheem Khan of CARE Bangladesh is responsible for coordinating M&E activities in the agriculture and natural resources program


      Chair: John Kerr, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University.



    SESSION 6: LOOKING FORWARD

    2.30-4.00 Where to From Here?
    Report Back from Morning Sessions and Plenary Discussion

    Concluding Comments - Safdar Parvez
    Safdar Parvez is Program Manager, Policy and Research for the Aga Khan Rural Support Program (AKRSP) in Pakistan. He has been working over the last 7-8 years on evaluating the socio-economic impacts of the AKRSP using control group methods, surveys, and process monitoring.


      Chair: Roberto N. Zagha, South Asia Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Sector Director, World Bank.

    List of participants (22 kb pdf)


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