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Impact of Participatory Village Development Planning (PVDP) on Poverty alleviation program in China
Prof. Dr. Li Xiaoyun
Dean of College of Humanities and Development, School of Public Policy and Administration, China Agricultural University

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The Procedure of PVDP
Three steps:
Identification of poor villages
Formulation of participatory development planning
The county-level integration of the village-level participatory development plans
Two key steps

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Type of poverty
Poverty Indicator & Unit of Measure
Livelihood poverty
Production of grain per person per year (kg)
Cash receipts per person per year (yuan)
Quality of housing. % from brick
Infrastructure poverty
% of households with access to potable water within one hour of their home
% of households with access to a reliable electricity supply
Number of associated natural villages without an all weather road link to the County town
Human resource poverty
Number of health assistance requests in the past year from women as a % of the number of females, 12 years and older, resident in the village.
% of eligible children not attending school
Method for Identification of poor village
Method: weighted Participatory Poverty Index (PPI)
8 key indicators
Calculating formula:
PPI=  ( Iij * w ij ) * w i

4. Household Classification
Background Analysis
Household Classification
Poverty Cause Analysis
Project Need Aggregation
Household Project Selection
SWOT & Feasibility Analysis
Project Identification
Village Poverty Reduction Plan
Implementation Plan
Participatory Discussion
Participatory Meeting
Village Leader & Key Informants
Support Need Aggregation

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2. Impact of the targeting mechanism
2.1. coverage of the interventions at three levels
Before PVDP
Now
Counties involved
592
1861
1269
Percentage of counties covered
21.9%
68.8%
46.9%
The poor population covered
53%
88.4%
30%

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2.2 Efficacy of the village targeting (one township in each province selected)
Province
The total nr. Of poor villages considered by health ranking
Number of the poor villages selected
Number of non-poor villages selected
Targeting rate of poor villages （%） P1 25
100 P2 16 15 1 93 P3 23 18 5 72
Total 64 58 6 90

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2.3 The resource distribution between the poor and non-poor village

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2.4 the change of the fund distribution
Year 2002
Year 2005
Average poverty reduction fund to per household
52.5 Yuan
747.5 Yuan
695
Targeting coverage of poor household
6.5%
9.6%
3.1%

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The poverty alleviation fund obtained by the household in the key alleviation county

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3. Impact on village level
democracy
The Poor Participating planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation process by workshop, labor and money input and other ways.
More poor people know the poverty reduction project information
More poor people know the poverty reduction project information by formal way, such as workshop, public show documents, etc.

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Improving the poor participation in decision-making
More poor participation of planning
2005
61.6% of the household-level projects had been approved by the villagers
the households which have select the projects themselves account for 36.1% of the households which participated in the project planning.

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Promoting the integrated development of the rural community
focusing more
on the
construction
of infrastructure
Integrated development planning:
Social, economic, environmental,
Capacity building need
are all involved

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4. Critical issues:
PVDP can significantly improve village targeting and improve transparency and democracy;
But poor house targeting is till less efficient due to many reasons;
ADB’s new support by building government and NGOs partnership is undergoing

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