Description:

The project aims at a continued improving impact of poverty reduction policies and programmes through building of the national capacity to use poverty, labour and disability data as well as the human development paradigm. The project will support (i) poverty mapping; (ii) streamlining of the basic labour statistics system and update of labour force and time use data; (iii) production of the NHDR and poverty policy studies, and (iv) improvement of the policy and programme framework for better economic integration of persons with disabilities. It will strengthen the university curricula on poverty measurement and HD teaching, train government and non-state development practitioners on poverty mapping techniques and use and interpretation of poverty and labour statistics, and increase the capacity of associations working for the disabled in programme management and advocacy. An important output of the project will be a capacity development plan for the national anti-poverty machinery based on a functional review.

Expected Outcomes:

1. Institutional capacity for MDG-based integrated and long-term national planning and inter-sectoral coordination strengthened
2. An inter-sectoral integrated information system (linked to DevInfo) developed through participatory and decentralized mechanisms to provide socio-economic data for planning, budgeting and for monitoring of socio-economic situation of the disadvantaged population
3. Awareness and capacity of students, researchers, professionals, policy makers and the general public enhanced to understand, analyze and develop policies from a human development perspective through NHDRs, and continuous advances in training and advocac