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Poverty Mapping for Improved Resource Allocation in East Africa

Workshop in Uganda focusing on capturing regional heterogeneity, identifying poverty influencers, and enhancing resource targeting and communication. Utilizes money metrics, basic needs, human capabilities. Creates comprehensive poverty profiles for effective poverty reduction strategies.

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Poverty Mapping for Improved Resource Allocation in East Africa

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  1. Poverty Mapping23 - 26 July 2001PARIS21 Workshop for East Africa & The Great HornKampala, Uganda

  2. Poverty Mapping • Why • to capture heterogeneity within regions • identify geographical factors that influence poverty • improve targeting of resources and interventions • improve communication about poverty conditions • Poverty Profile • poverty maps are part of poverty profile • comprehensive poverty profile needed to balance picture

  3. Who is poor? • 3 Common approaches • Money metric • Basic Needs • Human capabilities

  4. Method used • Used money-metric measure as proxy for household welfare • imputed consumption expenditure (obtained by combining census & survey data) • Imputation based on readily observable household characteristics e.g. age,sex, race, household assets, access to services, educational status etc • obtained poverty rates for 3 levels of geography

  5. National

  6. Eastern Cape : District Level

  7. Free State : District Level

  8. Northern Province : District Level

  9. KwaZulu-Natal : District Level

  10. Gauteng : District Level

  11. Mpumalanga: District Level

  12. North Cape : District Level

  13. North West : District Level

  14. Western Cape : District Level

  15. Where are the poor to be found? 3 md Bloem Botshabelo Thaba Nchu

  16. What are the major characteristics of the poor? Using Census records, the major characteristics of those identified as poor can be obtained e.g. • Demographic profile • Basic needs profile • Human capability profile • Data from other service providers eg location of schools, access to public transport, location of clinics is needed to obtain a comprehensive profile.

  17. Using Poverty Maps • Crime analysis • socio-economic correlates of crime hot spots • Local government resource allocations • equitable shares allocation model • Cholera outbreak • working with health dept to identify communities at risk and inform health education programs

  18. Cholera Outbreak in SA

  19. Benefits • Focus on poor as a group • Support design & development of evidence-based poverty reduction strategies • Guide to resource allocation • Tools for monitoring & evaluating progress • Opportunities for national/regional capacity building • Opportunities for service providers to offer integrated services

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