You are invited to participate in an Electronic Conference on poverty and social impact analysis. This conference will promote discussion around the progress, challenges and opportunities of poverty and social impact analysis to contribute to pro-poor structural and macroeconomic policies that are based on country evidence and decided upon in an open and transparent manner.
Eurodad Electronic Conference on Poverty and Social Impact Analysis
You are invited to participate in an Electronic Conference on poverty and social impact analysis. This conference will promote discussion around the progress, challenges and opportunities of poverty and social impact analysis to contribute to pro-poor structural and macroeconomic policies that are based on country evidence and decided upon in an open and transparent manner.
This is an opportunity to debate and discuss some of the key challenges for influencing policy including issues of country ownership, civil society participation and fostering public debate
Conference aims:
Improve communication between organisations/individuals interested in PSIA
Share lessons of country experiences of poverty and social impact analysis
Identify what donors and government agencies can do to improve process and impact of PSIA type work
Identify what CSOs can do to improve process and impact of PSIA type work
When: November 1st – 22nd 2005
How: Via email and conference space on Eurodad website, www.eurodad.org
Format: One question will be discussed per week. Discussion will be moderated by Eurodad. Two key discussants will kick off debate at the beginning of each week on that week’s question
Languages: Participants are welcome to contribute in English, Spanish, French or Portuguese. The preparatory document will be available in English, Spanish and French as will the final summary report of the three-week discussion. However the primary conference language will be English.
Registration: Please register for this conference by sending an email with PSIA electronic conference in the title to [email protected]
More: More information will be emailed to conference participants before the end of October 2005. This will include a direct link to the site, the questions for each week and a short preparatory document. See also Eurodad’s recent report ‘Open on Impact, slow progress in World Bank and IMF poverty analysis’ at http://www.eurodad.org/articles/default.aspx?id=650
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