1. Country level analysis for poverty reduction
Making macro social analysis work for policy dialogue, Washington, May 2006
Country level analysis for poverty reduction
current thinking at the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, Sida
Esse Nilsson, Policy and Methodology, Sida HQ

2. Why analysis? The link between Sida’s three roles:
Analyst = to have the knowledge and understanding, in order to be an effective
Dialogue partner Financier

3. Poverty analysis because:
Poverty is multi-dimensional, need for broad analysis
Causes are complex, need for in-depth analysis
Poverty is context specific, analysis has to be context-specific

4. How, who and when? Support and draw on in-country analysis
Analysis as a collaborative exercise
Fill knowledge gaps and ensure sufficient quality and relevance
Feed into PRS and similar processes
Feed into our own strategy processes

5. The Policy for Global Development, PGD (2003)
Goal: To help create conditions that will enable poor people to improve their quality of life.
The rights perspective
Poor people’s perspectives on development
Together with the goal, to be seen as points of departure for all development cooperation.
They supplement each other, are partly overlapping, and should be regarded within one context.

6. This means: Sharpened focus on poverty The individual in focus
The needs, interests and conditions of the poor are to be placed in focus and that the rights of people in general will constitute a basis for development cooperation
Poor women, men, girls and boys seen as active stakeholders in their own development, they have rights and voice

7. Four guiding principles - with emphasis on processes:
Participation
Non-discrimination
Transparency
Accountability

8. The Paris Declaration on aid effectiveness
New aid architecture
New aid modalities
Concentration
Harmonization
Alignment
Results

9. Country level analysis for poverty reduction
Multidimensional with a focus on the individual, consisting of:
Integrated economic analysis (IEA)
Social analysis
Political or power analysis
Environment, gender, conflict, HIV/AIDS aspects to be integrated in the above, although separate analyses may also be needed.
Composition of analyses should be determined by the context.

10. Integrated economic analysis:
Development dynamics (pro-poor growth)
Employment market
Macro economic framework
Business environment
Binding constraints (change over time, context specific)

11. Social analysis Mapping and analysis of the social landscape:
Social structures and processes, stakeholders and actors
Social organisation, social groups, norms, values and attitudes
Social and cultural belief systems underlying the social organisation
Social dynamics (social inclusion or exclusion, social mobility), migration
Rights relevant to poor people’s own realities (RBAs)
Safety networks – social protection
Assets and resources of the poor, skills, resources and coping mechanisms
The relation between the formal and informal worlds, markets and how diverse groups of poor participate – or not
Links between global and local structures and how poor people relate to these

12. Power analysis (political analysis)
Process: in-country process has a value
Politics: dynamics, HR situation, informal and de-facto
Production: support and develop local capacity
Perspectives: rights and poor people’s perspectives
Programmes: application of the learning

13. The common denominator??
Binding constraints
The individual person
Employment
Other??
Work in progress: Poverty analysis, phase two.