• Aid policy
• Debt Management
• Education
• Financial sector
• Growth and Resources Policy
• Health
• Poverty and Social Protection
• • Poverty Analysis and Monitoring
  • Social Protection
• Public Financial Management
• Public Management and Accountability
• Regional Development and Local Government
• Social Development
• Statistics

Poverty Analysis and Monitoring

The ultimate objective of development is poverty reduction and accurate poverty monitoring and analysis is critical both for the design and the monitoring of development strategies and projects.

OPM has expertise in assessing poverty and exploring its different dimensions and characteristics: income and non-income poverty, social exclusion, vulnerability, and achievements of human development in different aspects of the MDGs.

Poverty can be analysed and monitored using different techniques: large quantitative surveys, participatory approaches, and qualitative methods, so poverty and social protection work is often done in combination with other portfolios within the company, in particular the statistics and evidence based portfolio, and the social development portfolio.

Areas of expertise include:

• Poverty measurement and assessment: OPM has conducted a large number of quantitative and participatory poverty assessments in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America.
• Poverty monitoring: OPM has often been involved in designing and implementing monitoring tools to check progress of national poverty reduction strategies as well as specific projects’ impact on poverty.
• Poverty analysis and poverty reduction policies: Poverty analysis and the understanding of the main causes of poverty should inform the scope and lead the design of poverty reduction policies, sometimes opening policy avenues ignored by national governments.

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