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Mind the Gap: Evidence Based Programming and Policy Dialogue for Urban Poor
Evaluation Methods
Online
Single Session
Organized by
UNDP
Co-Organized by
UNDP, FCDO
Summary
Webinar Brief:
UNDP Bangladesh is jointly organising South Asia Regional Webinar ‘Mind the Gap: Evidence-Based Programming and Policy Dialogue for Urban Poor’ on 31st May, Monday 2021 from 1900 to 2030 hours Bangladesh time. The Webinar is being jointly organized by UNDP and the Global Evaluation Initiative (GEI) as part of the gLOCAL Evaluation Week 2021 starting from 31st May – 4th June 2021. The GEI is an inclusive global partnership committed to developing country-owned, sustainable monitoring and evaluation (M&E) frameworks and capacities to promote the use of evidence in public decision-making, enhance accountability, and achieve better results. The Webinar will present the key findings of the Impact Evaluation and the SocioEconomic Assessment of COVID 19 on urban poor commissioned by UNDP Bangladesh under its flagship project – Livelihoods Improvement for Urban Poor Communities (LIUPCP -2018-2023). LIUPCP is a five-year national project (2018-2023) to reduce urban poverty, in partnership with the Local Government Division (LGD) and the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO). The evaluation findings clearly show how the COVID19 pandemic now in its second year has severely impacted the poorest and the most vulnerable in our societies and can therefore inform and guide the process of response and recovery.
Impact Evaluation:
The methodology uses the difference-in-differences (DiD) approaches to compare the differences in outcomes between treatment and control groups at the baseline, and at the endline. In order to conduct a scientifically valid Impact Evaluation, the design proposed one treatment group and, two control groups (a semi-control group within the treatment group who will not receive grant interventions, and another pure-control group (not receiving any interventions). LIUPCP completed the baseline survey and the first round of Annual Outcome Monitoring in 2020. In response to COVID-19 pandemic, LIUPCP carried out a Socio-Economic Assessment (SEA) to understand the short term, medium-term and long-term impact of COVID -19 on the urban poor communities. The SEA adopted a mixed-method strategy including a cross-sectional survey with a quasi-experimental approach among households (beneficiary, semi-control, and pure control). The household survey collected data on two time-points (immediate before and after lockdown of COVID-19) and composed a matched panel (in 19 Cities where baseline survey of LIUPCP is complete) at the level of both individuals and areas/urban poor settlements. The SEA data in comparison to the baseline data interestingly reveals the extent of emergence of new poor and how the baseline data further deteriorated due to the COVID impact. The Impact Evaluation using a mixed methodology approach across various timeframes presents a good practice in terms of Equity Focused and Gender Responsive Evaluation.
UNDP Bangladesh is jointly organising South Asia Regional Webinar ‘Mind the Gap: Evidence-Based Programming and Policy Dialogue for Urban Poor’ on 31st May, Monday 2021 from 1900 to 2030 hours Bangladesh time. The Webinar is being jointly organized by UNDP and the Global Evaluation Initiative (GEI) as part of the gLOCAL Evaluation Week 2021 starting from 31st May – 4th June 2021. The GEI is an inclusive global partnership committed to developing country-owned, sustainable monitoring and evaluation (M&E) frameworks and capacities to promote the use of evidence in public decision-making, enhance accountability, and achieve better results. The Webinar will present the key findings of the Impact Evaluation and the SocioEconomic Assessment of COVID 19 on urban poor commissioned by UNDP Bangladesh under its flagship project – Livelihoods Improvement for Urban Poor Communities (LIUPCP -2018-2023). LIUPCP is a five-year national project (2018-2023) to reduce urban poverty, in partnership with the Local Government Division (LGD) and the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO). The evaluation findings clearly show how the COVID19 pandemic now in its second year has severely impacted the poorest and the most vulnerable in our societies and can therefore inform and guide the process of response and recovery.
Impact Evaluation:
The methodology uses the difference-in-differences (DiD) approaches to compare the differences in outcomes between treatment and control groups at the baseline, and at the endline. In order to conduct a scientifically valid Impact Evaluation, the design proposed one treatment group and, two control groups (a semi-control group within the treatment group who will not receive grant interventions, and another pure-control group (not receiving any interventions). LIUPCP completed the baseline survey and the first round of Annual Outcome Monitoring in 2020. In response to COVID-19 pandemic, LIUPCP carried out a Socio-Economic Assessment (SEA) to understand the short term, medium-term and long-term impact of COVID -19 on the urban poor communities. The SEA adopted a mixed-method strategy including a cross-sectional survey with a quasi-experimental approach among households (beneficiary, semi-control, and pure control). The household survey collected data on two time-points (immediate before and after lockdown of COVID-19) and composed a matched panel (in 19 Cities where baseline survey of LIUPCP is complete) at the level of both individuals and areas/urban poor settlements. The SEA data in comparison to the baseline data interestingly reveals the extent of emergence of new poor and how the baseline data further deteriorated due to the COVID impact. The Impact Evaluation using a mixed methodology approach across various timeframes presents a good practice in terms of Equity Focused and Gender Responsive Evaluation.
Event Details
Date:
May 31
Time:
07:00 PM Local Time | 1:00 pm GMT
Duration:
2 hr
00 Mins
Speaker, Presenter, or Instructor
Name
M. A. Mannan MP
Organization
Ministry of Planning, Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh
Title
Honorable Minister
Short Biography
Muhammad Abdul Mannan, MP joined the former Civil Service of Pakistan (CSP) cadre in 1974 and served in the Government of Bangladesh in various positions. After the Eleventh Parliament election, he was appointed Minister of the Ministry of Planning on 7th January 2019.
Name
Sudipto Mukerjee
Organization
UNDP Bangladesh
Title
Resident Representative
Short Biography
Sudipto is an Architect & Town Planner with more than two decades of experience in international development. He joined UNDP in September 2009. He assumed the responsibility of the Resident Representative, UNDP Bangladesh from December 2018. Sudipto comes with diverse crisis management experience.
Name
Anir Chowdhury
Organization
Aspire to Innovate (a2i), UNDP Bangladesh
Title
Policy Advisor
Short Biography
Anir is the Policy Advisor of the a2i Programmme of the ICT Division and the Cabinet Division of the Government of Bangladesh supported by the UNDP. In this capacity, he leads the formation of a whole-of-society innovation ecosystem in Bangladesh through massive technology deployment.
Name
Dr Abul Barkat
Organization
Human Development Research Centre (HDRC)
Title
Professor
Short Biography
Dr Barkat is one of the most illustrious Professors of Economics at the University of Dhaka. He is one of the most reputed and respected political economists in and beyond Bangladesh. As an erudite scholar and invincible social thinker, he has many high-quality research works.
Name
Anowarul Haq
Organization
Climate Change and Environment Team, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)
Title
Social Development Adviser
Short Biography
Anowarul has more than 20 years of work experience in the development field that include participatory action and research, strategic impact inquiry, participatory impact assessment and underlying causes of poverty ànd marginalisation analysis is an expert in social protection work.
Name
Bushra Hassan
Organization
Regional Bureau for Asia-Pacific, UNDP
Title
RBM, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist
Short Biography
Bushra has worked for over 20 years with the private sector, academia, consultancies and the UN on the areas of international development, focusing on monitoring and oversight mechanisms as well as programme management. Currently working with UNDP’s Regional Bureau for Asia-Pacific.
Name
Shagun Sabarwal
Organization
J-PAL South Asia
Title
Director of Policy, Training and Communications
Short Biography
Shagun leads J-PAL South Asia’s engagements with governments, donors, and civil society organizations to initiate new research, disseminate policy lessons, and scale up evidence-based programs. She promotes the center’s mission to strengthen the monitoring, evaluation, learning systems and data use.
Name
Dr Arjun Bedi
Organization
International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Netherlands
Title
Professor
Short Biography
Dr Arjun is Professor of Development Economics and Deputy Rector for Research at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam. He holds positions at the University of Bonn. His research focuses on labour and human resource economics in developing countries.
Name
Mohammad Tajul Islam
Organization
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS)
Title
Director General
Short Biography
Mohammad Tajul Islam brings over 30 years of experience in government sector. In 1991, he started his first job with Khulna Divisional Commissioner Office as Assistant Commissioner. He served as Deputy Director General before joining as Director General in Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics.
Name
Ashekur Rahman
Organization
UNDP Bangladesh
Title
Assistant Resident Representative
Short Biography
Ashekur heads UNDPs democratic and economic governance portfolios and brings rich years of experience in the development sector, both at the national and international domain, of which a decade he served within the UN system particularly in the areas of urban governance, poverty reduction etc.
Name
Ellora Guhathakurta
Organization
LIUPCP, UNDP Bangladesh
Title
M&E Specialist
Short Biography
Ellora joined as the Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist with the National Urban Proverty Reduction Programme, UNDP Bangladesh and leads the Managing for Impact (M4i) Unit. Ellora is a development professional with over 20 years of field, recipient government, NGO, UN and donor experience.
About UNDP
I work as a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist with the National Urban Poverty Reduction Programme (NUPRP). The programme is Bangladesh’s premier urban poverty reduction programme (2018-2023) which is being implemented by the Local Government Division (LGD) under the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development & Cooperatives (MLGRD&C), the Government of Bangladesh, managed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and funded by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO). The programme aims to support balanced, sustainable and pro-poor development for up to 4 million poor people living in the slum and low-income settlements in urban areas. The programme will contribute to more effective and inclusive urbanisation by working across three different levels of interventions: (i) the community level, (ii) municipal level, and (iii) national level. The programme is being implemented in 20 Cities/Towns (12 City Corporations and 8 Paurashavas) across the country with a focus on the most marginalised populations, particularly women and people with disabilities. The programme addresses complex as well as interconnected issues under five broad Outputs, including:
• Urban Governance and Planning (Output 1),
• Citizen’s Participation and Community Mobilisation (Output 2),
• Economic Development and Livelihoods (Output 3),
• Housing and Land Tenure (Output 4), and
• Infrastructure and Basic Services/Climate Resilient Infrastructure (Output 5);
The five interrelated components of NUPRP will contribute in achieving the SDGs, particularly the following: SDG-1: No Poverty; SDG-5: Gender Equality; SDG-6: Clean Water and Sanitation; SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities; SDG-11: Sustainable Cities & Communities; SDG-13: Climate Action and SDG-16: Strong Institutions The NUPRP will also contribute to achieving more than 50 of the SDG targets through improvements in the livelihoods and living conditions of urban poor people.
The United Kingdom (UK) is providing up to £58.1 million over 7 years (2016 - 2023) to support the programme’s implementation. Up to £20 million of the budget is from the International Climate Fund (ICF) while the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) has committed to providing up to £10 million through a combination of financial and in-kind support.
• Urban Governance and Planning (Output 1),
• Citizen’s Participation and Community Mobilisation (Output 2),
• Economic Development and Livelihoods (Output 3),
• Housing and Land Tenure (Output 4), and
• Infrastructure and Basic Services/Climate Resilient Infrastructure (Output 5);
The five interrelated components of NUPRP will contribute in achieving the SDGs, particularly the following: SDG-1: No Poverty; SDG-5: Gender Equality; SDG-6: Clean Water and Sanitation; SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities; SDG-11: Sustainable Cities & Communities; SDG-13: Climate Action and SDG-16: Strong Institutions The NUPRP will also contribute to achieving more than 50 of the SDG targets through improvements in the livelihoods and living conditions of urban poor people.
The United Kingdom (UK) is providing up to £58.1 million over 7 years (2016 - 2023) to support the programme’s implementation. Up to £20 million of the budget is from the International Climate Fund (ICF) while the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) has committed to providing up to £10 million through a combination of financial and in-kind support.
Resources
LIUPCP Agenda May 2021_1.pdf608.91 KB
