Thierry van Bastelaer, the director of the Enterprise Development Group at the IRIS Center at the University of Maryland, hosted the August Speaker's Corner on Poverty Assessment Tools, a program designed to develop and field test accurate and practical tools for measuring poverty levels of USAID microenterprise clients. The e-conference focused on the practicality of Poverty Assessment Tools, practitioners’ current experience in measuring poverty, the utility of poverty tools for practitioners, and how the tools can be implemented in practice.  

Documents

USAID/IRIS Poverty Assessment Tool Draft    Draft Poverty Tool.pdf              
Discussion Summary: Povert Assessment Tools    speaker's corner 13 poverty tools summary document.pdf              
Gary Woller Congressional Testimony    Woller Committee Testimony.pdf              
Constructing an International Poverty Assessment Tool: A Methodological Note with Illustrations    International_Tools_Note.pdf              
National and International Poverty Lines: An Overview    Poverty_lines___An_Overview_1_4_06.pdf              
Accuracy Results for 12 Poverty Assessment Tool Countries    Accuracy Results for 12 Countries-3.pdf              
Review of Poverty Assessment Tools    Review of Poverty Assessment Tools.pdf              
Developing Certification Criteria Workshop: Final Workshop Report    Criteria Workshop Report.pdf              

Website Link

Poverty Assessment Tools (Go)
Poverty Assessment Tools FAQ (Go)

Discussions

Event Discussion Area ID: 12248

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Poverty Assessment Tools Conclusion Hello Speaker's Corner Participants,Thank you to all contributors to the Speaker’s Corner on poverty assessment.  We are in particular grateful to our colleagues in the field for sharing their ...	950		2
RE: Day 3 Question: How Do We Implement Poverty Assessment Tools? [Event Discussion Area] [Event Discussion Area] [Event Discussion Area] Evelyn and Thierry, You noted earlier that the certification process will be announced shortly and that you know of two organizations planning to pursuing poverty research (and thereby presumably ...	960		3
Thank you e-conference participants! Thank you all for participating in the Poverty Assessment Tools Speaker's Corner, and a big thanks to Thierry van Bastelaer for moderating the discussion and posing great questions ...	914		1
RE: Day 3 Question: How Do We Implement Poverty Assessment Tools? [Event Discussion Area] [Event Discussion Area] [Event Discussion Area] Dear participants,I thank you all for such interesting discussion.I have done my M.Sc thesis on the ‘’Measurement ofPoverty’’ (Addis Ababa University 1999). Then, I havetried to review as much ...	866		1
Day 3 Question: How Do We Implement Poverty Assessment Tools? Welcome to Day 3 of the e-conference!  The Topic of Day 3 of the Speaker’s Corner is “October 06 is Fast Approaching: How do We Implement Poverty Assessment Tools?”.  In today’s discussion ...	993		9
Day Two Question: Utility Beyond Compliance Welcome to Day 2 of the e-conference! The Topic of Day 2 of the Speaker’s Corner is “Utility beyond Compliance”.  In today’s discussion we hope to explore ways to increase the likelihood ...	958		13
RE: Day 3 Question: How Do We Implement Poverty Assessment Tools? [Event Discussion Area] [Event Discussion Area] [Event Discussion Area] Since there seems to be a--certainly temporary...--lull in the conversation, I thought I'd take this opportunity to draw the participants' attention to a point that is often misunderstood, even among ...	858		1
Re: Day Two Question: Utility Beyond Compliance [Event Discussion Area] [Event Discussion Area] We included some questions to assess the success of technology marketing,although we could have also included questions usually used in our economicimpact surveys. The surveys we conduct are ...	833		2
Day Two Conclusion Hello Speaker’s Corner Participants, Thank you to all who contributed their thoughts, questions and experience in yesterday’s discussion.  Since we know from years of communication with other ...	832		1
Re: Day Two Question: Utility Beyond Compliance [Event Discussion Area] [Event Discussion Area] [Event Discussion Area] [Event Discussion Area] On the same note, thanks to Rekha as well!Megan	813		1
Re: Day Two Question: Utility Beyond Compliance [Event Discussion Area] [Event Discussion Area] Marceline,I want to say thank you for sharing with us the other uses K-Rep has foundfor the poverty assessment data you collected. Theoretically, we all knowthat more can be done with the data than to ...	837		1
Day One Conclusion Hello Speaker’s Corner Participants, Thank you to all participants who contributed their thoughts, questions and experience in yesterday’s discussion.  We heard from Marceline Obuya, who ...	850		1
Re: Day One Question: Measuring Poverty What works and what doesn t? [Event Discussion Area] Hi Jason and all - I'd like to share our experience testing the tool as a non-microfinance organisation. Prior to implementing the poverty assessment tool test, EnterpriseWorks practiced on-going ...	871		3
RE: Day One Question: Measuring Poverty What works and what doesn t? [Event Discussion Area] Very thoughtful. Using proxies as ways to approximate complex concepts and trends makes a lot of sense.Olaf gets at the key issue with looking at poverty 'head on' - the slippery nature of an ...	901		2
Day One Question: Measuring Poverty—What works and what doesn’t? What is the participants' experience with measuring poverty?  What makes a “good tool”?  What types of approaches (absolute/relative, monetary/non monetary,...) have they found ...	1158		15
Re: Day One Question: Measuring Poverty What works and what doesn t? [Event Discussion Area] [Event Discussion Area] [Event Discussion Area] Hi Ms. Green,I am a consultant for the IRIS center and have been organizing feedback fromthe grantees which carried out the practicality testing in the PAT project.I have read all of the reports and ...	816		1
Moderator Introduction Hello Speaker’s Corner Participants, Welcome to “Poverty Assessment Tools”, a three day e-conference event. I’m your host, Thierry van Bastelaer, the director of the Enterprise  ...	847		1
Welcome E-Conference Participants! Welcome to Speaker’s Corner 13: Poverty Assessment Tools!  Before introducing our host, Thierry van Bastelaer, I would like to point out that Thierry has provided some background documents which ...	818		1
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