Impact of Participatory Village Development Planning (PVDP) on Poverty alleviation program in China

1. College of Humanities and Development China Agricultural University 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

2. College of Humanities and Development China Agricultural University • 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

3. College of Humanities and Development China Agricultural University • Method for Identification of poor village • Method: weighted Participatory Poverty Index (PPI) • 8 key indicators • Calculating formula: PPI=  ( Iij * w ij ) * w i

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

5. College of Humanities and Development China Agricultural University 2. Impact of the targeting mechanism 2.1. coverage of the interventions at three levels

6. College of Humanities and Development China Agricultural University 2.2 Efficacy of the village targeting (one township in each province selected)

7. College of Humanities and Development China Agricultural University 2.3 The resource distribution between the poor and non-poor village

8. College of Humanities and Development China Agricultural University 2.4 the change of the fund distribution

9. College of Humanities and Development China Agricultural University The poverty alleviation fund obtained by the household in the key alleviation county

10. College of Humanities and Development China Agricultural University 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.

11. College of Humanities and Development China Agricultural University • 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.

12. College of Humanities and Development China Agricultural University • 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

13. College of Humanities and Development China Agricultural University 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

14. College of Humanities and Development China Agricultural University Questions and comments?