Poverty Analysis Guideline
Why use Poverty Analysis?
The over-arching aim of poverty analysis is to identify the poor, understand the causes of poverty and help set priorities for poverty reduction efforts. In essence, poverty analysis helps set the basis for policies, strategies and programmes that have effective, efficient and sustainable poverty reduction impacts.
Poverty analysis can be used at different levels to inform different kinds of interlinking processes.
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Level of use |
Informs |
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National |
The national policy framework of partner countries, including their national development strategy and/or poverty reduction strategy, macro policies and public expenditure programme |
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Sector |
The sector policies, strategies and programmes of partner countries |
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Sub-national |
The provincial or district development plans and programmes of partner countries |
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Development programmes 1 and projects |
Development programme and project identification, design and assessment |
Poverty analysis can be used to assess the distributional and poverty impacts of policies, strategies, programmes and projects that:
- aim to directly benefit the poor
- aim to indirectly benefit the poor
don’t directly or indirectly aim to benefit the poor but nevertheless may have major ramifications (positive and/or negative) for them.
1 Not to be confused with NZAID country, regional or thematic programmes. See Tools Glossary.