Brown Bag Seminar
Poverty Monitoring and Poverty Alleviation Programs in Malawi
Tuesday, April 25, 2000, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Lawrence Kachikopa, Poverty and Social Policy Division, Stanley Khaila, Centre for Social Research, University of Malawi National Economic Council, and Charles Machinjili, National Statistical OfficeIn 1994 the first government elected under a multi-party system in Malawi adopted poverty alleviation as a the framework within which its development policies and programs were to be formulated. A central component of this policy framework is poverty monitoring. The Poverty Monitoring System was established to collect and analyze socio-economic data to provide policy makers with indications of the success of the poverty alleviation programs put into place and to guide the government in extending the reach of its efforts in effectively reducing poverty in the nation.
The heads of the three core institutions of the Poverty Monitoring System will present brief overviews of the activities of their institutions. Mr. Kachikopa will describe the structure and systems of the poverty alleviation program, as well as the efforts at poverty alleviation currently underway. Mr. Machinjili will describe the implementation of the Integrated Household Survey, which he led. The IHS, which was administered to over 12,900 households over a full year, provides the largest and most comprehensive set of quantitative survey data for use in poverty monitoring in Malawi at present. Dr. Khaila will provide a brief presentation on the results of the qualitative ‘Consultations with the Poor’ study which he led last year in Malawi, together with some comments on the Complementary Panel Survey which the Centre for Social Research is implementing with 800 households as a follow-on activity to the Integrated Household Survey.
The Food Consumption and Nutrition Division at IFPRI has been providing technical support to all of these activities. The team of Malawian experts will be at IFPRI from April 24 to 28 to brainstorm what future joint activities across all divisions of IFPRI could follow on these current efforts.
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