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Title

The Development of a Support System for Area Based on Comprehensive and Precise Poverty Alleviation Project

Keywords

Precise Poverty Alleviation,Multi-dimensional Poverty Approach,Sustainable Livelihoods Framework

Abstract

The Office of National Higher Education Science Research and Innovation Policy Council (NXPO) by the Program Management Unit on Area Based Development has given the full support to the Project on “The Development of a Support System for Area Based on Comprehensive and Precise Poverty Alleviation”. With the main objective to build the platform for personalized poverty alleviation (PPA), the project has been working strategically with the survey of poor households, and assessment of their capitals for sustainable livelihoods. The context of the working areas and problems are analyzed. The project seriously focused and supported on mobilizing the energetic engagement of the government agencies and universities in the working areas to work as coordinating unit with the stakeholders (poor people at different levels) in solving the problems and influencing for the systematic development working approaches for poverty alleviation at local level through policy recommendation for the precise poverty alleviation at the national level. At the beginning of the project, Thai People Map and Analytics Platform (TPMAP) was used basic database. The number of poor people identified by the TPMAP was 131,040. Research questions are “Where are poor people? Why are they poor (What are the reasons for becoming poor?) and how can the poor moving out from poverty? The Project thus identified the objectives (and working processes) as follows: (1) Review concepts, principles, and guidelines to develop poverty alleviation from experiences in the country and internationally, including monitoring of information on the development of poverty alleviation at national and local levels, (2) Design for the mechanism, processes, tools, including capacity building for the universities partners’ teams working on poverty alleviation in 10 provinces of the project’ areas. (3) Monitor, analyze the working situation and support for the area-based working mechanism for precise poverty alleviation, (4) collect and synthesize working knowledge from 10 provinces pilot projects, and prepare for policy recommendation on precise poverty alleviation. Results of the project work: During the first phase of one year and two months in 10 provinces, the results of precise poverty alleviation are as follows: 1. Targeting and verification (of the poor) system Develop targeting and verification (of the poor) system at local level, the tools and processes can be replicated in other areas, 2. Classification and grouping of the targeted poor. Set up the process with tools to classify different groups of the poor. This will help prioritize the need to work with which group orderly. Information of four different groups is explained further down below. 3. Precise database With the effective and precise database of the targeted poor of the project, information can be linked to the provincial development plan, the poor can benefit from the government plan at provincial level, 4. Referring system With the precise information of the targeted poor, they can be referred to relevant line agencies or partners in different sections, (especially the poor who are missing from the official survey and database), and bring them into the official services system as it should have been, 5. Operating Model The project is working on the Operating Model in line with the context of the targeted poor. The development projects for poverty alleviation in the pilot areas were organized as well as creating the learning opportunities for the targeted poor to develop their skills in sustainable livelihoods. 6. Proposal and guideline to clarify the database of the poor The project is working on the proposal and guideline to clear out the information of the poor who are already move out the poverty standard. Definition and measurement of the poverty (from the project result no.2- Classification and grouping of the targeted poor.) Guidelines to understand the conditions of poverty are formulated by the combination of two types of framework: Sustainable Livelihood Framework (SLF) and contextual analysis. Thus, poor people are classified and identified into four groups upon their living conditions and livelihoods strategies. They are as follows: Group 1. living is in trouble (in trouble): They do not have enough fundamental needs for their living. They are immediately referred to the welfare system. Group 2. They live with the hardship. (Live with hardship): They have only basic needs for their everyday life only. There is need to acquire the more profound fundamental capital for longer period of time. Group 3 They are able to live. (Able to live): This group has basic needs for their living but will be vulnerable if facing with changes. Group 4 They have resilience in their living: this group of the poor can face with changes and can plan for their future. The will do well and can be the resources for the local level if they get support for the planning and extra capitals.