Impact of Participatory Village Development Planning (PVDP) on Targeting of Poverty Alleviation Program in China Prof. Dr. Li Xiaoyun Dean 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? College of Humanities and Development China Agricultural University

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 College of Humanities and Development China Agricultural University 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 College of Humanities and Development China Agricultural University 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 Infrastructu re 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 resourc e 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 mechanism 2.1. Coverage of the interventions at two levels College of Humanities and Development China Agricultural University Before PVDPNow Counties involved 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) College of Humanities and Development China Agricultural University Prov ince 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 （ % ） P P P Total

2.3 The resource distribution between the poor and non-poor village College of Humanities and Development China Agricultural University

2.4 the change of the fund distribution College of Humanities and Development China Agricultural University Year 2002Year 2005 Average poverty reduction fund to per household 52.5 Yuan747.5 Yuan 695 Targeting coverage of poor household 6.5%9.6%3.1%

College of Humanities and Development China Agricultural University 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. College of Humanities and Development China Agricultural University

Improving the poor participation in decision- making –More poor participation of planning – % 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. College of Humanities and Development China Agricultural University

Promoting the integrated development of the rural community College of Humanities and Development China Agricultural University focusing more on the construction of infrastructure Integrated development planning: Social, economic, environmental, Capacity building need are all involved

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