1. Can CBPM become a national system ?
THE 3rd ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF PEP NETWORK
Dakar (Senegal) - June 2004
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Can CBPM become
a national system ?
Vu Tuan Anh
Socio-Economic Development Centre
Hanoi, Vietnam

2. Tasks of a poverty monitoring system
To provide a clear understanding of
the characteristics of the poor, causes of their poverty, and where they are located.
To monitor the progress and impacts of poverty alleviation policies, programmes, measures and projects.
 PMS collects, analyses, disseminates poverty-related data to policy makers, researchers, communities.

3. Existing popular PMSs (1) Household living standards survey
quantitative income - consumption survey
both census / sampled survey
national scope
centralised activities
(2) Participatory poverty assessment
qualitative survey
sampled survey
local scope
decentralised activities

4. Disadvantages of existing PMSs
Heavy surveys
Too costly to be replicated frequently.
Different coverage and reference periods of surveys => impossible to get a comprehensive profile of the different social groups at a specific point in time.
Sampling designs do not usually correspond to the geographical disaggregation needed for policy planning.
 do not provide regular and up-to-date picture of the poverty status of vulnerable groups.

5. CBPMS Frequently conducted
Simple indicators (focussing on basic needs)
Participation of the communities
Different local scopes
Decentralised and flexible activities
  Low-cost.
 Providing frequent and comprehensive information on poverty in localities.
 Easy-to-sustain.
 Enhancing local capacity.
     

6. However... Concerns about CBPMS
Does the set of simple indicators satisfy the needs of policy-making process?
Does the participatory data collection meet the quality requirements?
Can local communities properly process and analyse the collected data?
Can results of CBPMS be aggregated and integrated in a national database?
Can CBPMS extent scope and become a national system?

7. Decentralisation

8. CBPMS at localities

9. A national database of CBPMS

10. Implementation of CBPMS in Vietnam
(1) Set of indicators:
Basic needs + Income
(2) Types of household surveys:
Census (1st year) + Sampling (next 4 years)
(3) Data gathering:
Local surveyors + External supervisors
(4) Data processing:
Computerisation + Ready software

11. Buiding a national CBPMS
(1) Steps in our top-down approach:
 Implementing CBPMS in a national system of poverty observatories
2002: testing CBPMS in 20 communes, 12 provinces.
 Implementing CBPMS in provinces
: testing CBPMS in 2 provinces:
+ Hatay with 30 communes
+ Yenbai with 10 communes

12. Buiding a national CBPMS
 Encouraging other provinces to build provincial poverty observatory systems.
 Integrating data of provincial poverty observatories in a national system => Provincial observatories become national.

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(2) Standardisation and unification of indicators at national and local levels:
Set of main indicators (for all levels) +
Set of specific indicators (different for localities and administrative levels)
(3) Institutionalizing CBPM and searching financial support.
(4) Integrating CBPMS with LSS and other national surveys.

17. Thank you