Poverty Reduction Cooperation Fund

TA 4694: Urban Poverty Strategy Study II – People's Republic of China

Financed by Poverty Reduction Cooperation Fund

Project Summary

Building on the outputs of the first Urban Poverty Study (TA 3377, completed in 2001), this TA will focus on the issue of urban migrant workers and related poverty reduction measures. The TA aims to contribute to enhanced access to urban social services by urban poor migrants and reduced urban poverty, by producing a comprehensive set of policy and administrative reform recommendations for submission to the State Council.

The TA will have two main outputs:

1. A field studies report (FSR) which will investigate obstacles to accessing education, health care, housing, and employment services by poor urban migrants in a midsize city and another relevant city in the mid or north west through a mix of qualitative and quantitative methodologies.
2. A policy recommendations report (PRR) using the findings of the FSR. It will document and disseminate to key policymakers on the State Council the interagency steering group's recommendations to enhance the urban poor migrant access to key public goods. Each ministry will produce its own action plan for enhancing urban migrant poor access which will constitute part of the PPR.

• TA Report [ PDF: 109kb | 15 pages ]
• TACR [ PDF: 37kb | 2 pages ]
• Consultant's Report [ PDF: 453kb | 163 pages ]