Poverty Handbook Analysis and Processes to Support ADB Operations: A Working Document
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Guidelines, Handbooks, and Manuals
Pub. Date: 2006
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This handbook focuses and further elaborates on the changes introduced ADB's Poverty Reduction Strategy. It describes the rationale, policies, and procedures for assisting the developing member countries combat poverty. It also contains numerous illustrations of the manner in which poverty-focused analysis, programming, project formulation, and monitoring and evaluation have been incorporated into ADB's evolving assistance tool kit.
Foreword, Acknowledgments, Abbreviations
I. ADB's Approach to Poverty Reduction: An Overview
- A. Introduction: Purpose and Structure of the Handbook
- B. The Poverty Context
- C. Recent Poverty Status
- D. ADB's Institutional Response
II. Contributing to the NPRS Process
- A. Introduction: ADB and the NPRS Process
- B. Lessons of ADB and its Partners: Elements of a Sound NPRS
- C. Supporting the NPRS Process
III. Preparing a Country Poverty Analysis
- A. Introduction: The Role of the CPA
- B. Contribution of the CPA to the CPS
- C. The CPA Approach
- D. CPA Resource Requirements and Reporting
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IV. Contributing to the CPSProcess
- A. The Role of the CPS in Country-focused Poverty Reduction
- B. The CPS Process: Integrating the NPRS, CPA, Analysis, and Consultations
- C. CPS Consultations: Fostering Participation to Build Shared Ownership
- D. Focusing to Maximize Poverty Reduction Impact
- E. Building Partnerships to Achieve MDGs and National Goals
- F. Sector Strategies and Road Maps: The Basic Building Blocks to the Results Framework
- G. Defining a Poverty-focused CPS Results Framework
- H. CPS Quality Appraisal
V. Poverty Reduction in Projects
- A. Projects as Instruments for Contributing to Country-level Outcomes
- B. Project Classification
- C. The Initial Poverty and Social Assessment
- D. Poverty Analysis for Targeted Intervention (Household/Individual) Projects
- E. Poverty Analysis for Program Loans
- F. The Poverty Analysis Section of the Summary Poverty Reduction and Social Strategy (SPRSS)
- G. Poverty Analysis for Nonlending Products and Services
VI. Monitoring ADB's Poverty Reduction Impact
- A. Background
- B. Country-level Poverty Monitoring and Reporting
- C. Sector and Thematic Monitoring
- D. Institution-level Monitoring
- Appendixes
- Poverty Definition, Measurement, and Analysis
- Sector and Thematic Reports
- Millennium Development Goals
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