Poverty Analysis & Data Initiative—Chinese Mechanism
&
Evaluating the Impact of Projects and Programs
Held in Beijing

　　On April 10, 2006, the Seminar on Poverty Analysis & Data Initiative—Chinese Mechanism & Evaluating the Impact of Projects and Programs jointly hosted by IPRCC and WBI was launched in Beijing. Foreign Capital Project Management Center under State Council Leading Group Office, Jiangxi Provincial Office of Poverty Alleviation and GTZ co-hosted the seminar. Wang Guoliang, Deputy Director of LGOP, Shahid Khandker, Lead Economist of World Bank Institute and Liu Fangyu, Division Chief of Technical Assistance, International Department of Finance Ministry were invited to address the seminar. Zhang Lei, Managing Director of IPRCC chaired the opening ceremony.
　　The seminar was one of the activities specified by the IDF Grant Program. The purpose of IDF Grant is to support and enhance IPRCC capacity in poverty analysis, monitoring and evaluation. The seminar is the second of this typed funded by the IDF Grant. It targets IPRCC staff, relevant staff in the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Education, National Old Persons’ Working Committee, China Disabled Persons’ Federation and staff from China Training Center for Executives in Poor Areas and Poverty Alleviation and Development Office in 19 provinces (autonomous regions). The training seminar covered such topics as poverty reduction efforts in China, design of poverty reduction projects, identification and measurement of poverty indicators, collection and sampling of evaluation data, the content and methodologies of project evaluation and introduction of anti-poverty case study. The seminar was proceeded with various formats like lecturing, case study and group discussion. Resource persons for the seminar include Zhang Lei, Managing Director of IPRCC, Shahid Khandker, Lead Economist of WBI, Wang Yan, Senior Economist of WBI, Celia M. Reyes, Research Fellow of Philippine Institute of Development Studies, Wang Sangui, Research Fellow of Institute of Agricultural Economy and Development, China Academy of Agriculture Sciences and Qiao Xiaochun, Professor of Economic College and Institute of Demology, Peking University.