Summary of Lao CBMS

1. Summary of Lao CBMS (Progress Report: on-going activities)

2. Outline • Background • Justification for CBMS in Lao PDR • On-going activities • Activities need to be finalized in the period of phase1

3. Background • Status of poverty and its characteristics • National Goals are to take country come out from LDCs by 2020 • The government formulated the National Growth Poverty Eradication Strategy (NGPES)

4. Background (continued) • Then 2001, government had issued the instruction number 010/PM, to identify the criteria and set poverty line. • NSC has a role to collect data, monitor and make analysis

5. Background (continued) • The poverty analysis has been done since 1990, and there were many development programs adopted during this time, the aim was to access the nearest reality of poverty situation • And included the analysis from LecsII, and Lecs III which is going on

6. Background (continued) • Poverty Monitoring • NSC will strengthen the monitoring system by three steps: • Poverty Monitoring of household via village level statistics data • Quantitative Poverty Monitoring using Household Consumption Expenditure survey • Qualitative Poverty Monitoring using participatory method

7. Justification for CBMS in Lao PDR • Lao PDR has been recently implementing the decentralization policy as well as poverty eradicating programs. • It is essential that the local level must be strong both practical and situation assessment • Participatory development is one aspect that government is promoting

8. Justification for CBMS in Lao PDR (continued) • The optional tool that NSC has set up for poverty monitoring is Village book • The village book failed to achieve the result, NSC experienced the problems and knew that village book has to be improved.

9. Justification for CBMS in Lao PDR (continued) • The proposed objectives of the CBMS • To assist in questionnaire development to support village book • To select appropriate indicators, with simple & easy for enumerator to proceed with data collecting in local level • To provide practical & scientific data for local authority for their effective planning, monitoring and evaluation for development programs.

10. The proposed objectives of the CBMS (continued) • To insist policy maker with what problem should urgently be solved in community development • To build capacity of selected local authority in data collection as well as strengthening research skill for NSC’s staffs. • To encourage cooperation link between central level with local level, • To come up with report that has CBMS as base

11. On-going activities • Designation responsibility to team member • Review existing poverty monitoring system based on Village book • Participatory Poverty Monitoring tools in monitoring and evaluating the poverty

12. On-going activities (continued) • Make list of indicators and variables relating to poverty analysis and monitoringas additional to Village book • Two CBMS sites for the pilot phase has defined: • Savanakhet Province • Saravan Province

13. Activities need to be finalized by Phase 1(September 2004) • Approve the designed questionnaire for pilot CBMS • Organize workshop with institution and agencies concerned • Designation the research team and other involved institution for effective implementation of CBMS • Project progress report