impact of participatory village development planning (pvdp) on targeting of poverty alleviation...

Impact of Participatory Village Development Planning (PVDP) on Targeting of Poverty Alleviation Program in China

Prof. Dr. Li XiaoyunDean of College of Humanities and

Development, School of Public Policy and Administration, China Agricultural

University

College of Humanities and Development

China Agricultural University

Key message: can accelerating participation improve the poor to access more efficiently and effectively the poverty reduction resources?



• The Procedure of PVDP

Three steps:– Identification of poor villages

– Formulation of participatory development planning

– The county-level integration of the village-level participatory development plans



Two key steps

• Method for Identification of poor village

– Method: weighted Participatory Poverty Index (PPI)

– 8 key indicators

– Calculating formula:

PPI= ( Iij * w ij ) * w i



Type of poverty

Poverty Indicator & Unit of Measure

Livelihood poverty

Production of grain per person per year (kg)

Cash receipts per person per year (yuan)

Quality of housing. % from brick

Infrastructure poverty

% of households with access to potable water within one hour of their home

% of households with access to a reliable electricity supply

Number of associated natural villages without an all weather road link to the County town

Human resource poverty

Number of health assistance requests in the past year from women as a % of the number of females, 12 years and older, resident in the village.

% of eligible children not attending school

Background Analysis

Household Classification

Poverty Cause Analysis

Project Need Aggregation

Household Project Selection

SWOT & Feasibility Analysis

Project Identification

Village Poverty Reduction Plan

Implementation Plan

Participatory Discussion

Participatory Meeting

Village Leader & Key Informants

Support Need Aggregation

2. Impact of the targeting mechanism2.1. Coverage of the interventions at two levels



Before PVDP Now

Counties involved

592 1861 1269

Percentage of counties covered

21.9% 68.8% 46.9%

The poor population covered

53% 88.4% 30%

2.2 Efficacy of the village targeting (one township in each province selected)



Province

The total nr. Of poor villages

considered by wealth

ranking

Number of the poor villages

selected actually

Number of non-poor villages selected

Targeting rate of poor villages （%）

P1 25 25 0 100

P2 16 15 1 93

P3 23 18 5 72

Total 64 58 6 90

2.3 The resource distribution between the poor and non-poor village



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2.4 the change of the fund distribution



Year 2002 Year 2005

Average poverty reduction fund to per household

52.5 Yuan 747.5 Yuan

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Targeting coverage of poor household

6.5% 9.6% 3.1%

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The poverty alleviation fund obtained by the Different household in the key alleviation counties

3. Impact on village level democracy

– The more Poor Participating planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation process by workshop, labor and money input and other ways.

– More poor people know the poverty reduction project information

– More poor people know the poverty reduction project information by formal way, such as workshop, public show documents, etc.



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• Improving the poor participation in decision-making– More poor participation of

planning

– 2005 • 61.6% of the household-level

projects had been approved by the villagers

• the households which have select the projects themselves account for 36.1% of the households which participated in the project planning.



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• Promoting the integrated development of the rural community



focusing more on the

construction of infrastructure

Integrated development planning:Social, economic, environmental,

Capacity building need are all involved



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