Related PSIA Work

Operational Links

• Good Practice Note: Using Poverty and Social Impact Analysis to Support Development Policy Operations (Final Version) 
• IMF and World Bank: Strengthening IMF-World Bank Collaboration on Country Programs and Conditionality, Feb. 2004
• The World Bank and IMF: Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers — Progress in Implementation - 2004
• World Bank Development Policy Lending OP8.6
• World Bank Development Policy Lending: Good Practice Notes
• World Bank Summary of IDA14 Policies for Operational Staff

Comments from the PSIA Community

The World Bank would like to hear your comments on the PSIA approach and experience. Please send all comments to psia@worldbank.org.

• Comments on the April 2002 Draft of the PSIA User's Guide. The following comments have been reviewed and addressed in the April 2003 PSIA User's Guide:
  • Catholic Relief Services (51.5Kb PDF)
  • ChristianAid (25.4Kb PDF)
  • GTZ (32.5Kb PDF)
  • World Learning (43.5Kb PDF)

Other PSIA-Related Work

• Asian Development Bank (ADB)
  • "Economic Analysis of Policy Based Operations: Key Dimensions," 2003 
  • "Handbook on Poverty and Social Analysis: A Working Document," December 2001
    • Section 1: Introduction (63kb PDF)
    • Section 2. Country Programming (85kb PDF)
    • Section 3: Project Preparation (132kb PDF)
    • Section 4: Guidelines of Data Requirements, Collection and Methods (85kb PDF)
• Department for International Development (DFID)
  • PRSP Monitoring & Synthesis Project: Briefing Note #8 — Learning the Lessons on PSIA, A Synthesis of Experience from the DFID Pilot Studies, October 2003 (90kb PDF)
  • Poverty Analysis & Monitoring: Briefing Note #1, January 2004 (51kb PDF)
  • PSIA: Common Themes and Issues Arising from Five Pilot Studies, October 2002 (35kb PDF)
• DFID / Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM) / Women in Sustainable Enterprise (WISE) Development
  • Enterprise Development Impact Assessment Information Service (EDIAIS) website
• EURODAD
  • PSIA Compilation — A collection of papers and briefings compiled by EURODAD on PSIAs, and the debates about its implementation in practice.
• GTZ / DFID
  • Principles for PSIA Process in Policy Cycles and Stakeholder Participation. March 2006.
• Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM), University of Manchester
  • Centre on Regulation and Competition website
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
  • "Poverty and Social Impact Analysis-Linking Macroeconomic Policies to Poverty Outcomes; Summary of Early Experiences," February 2003 (316kb PDF)
  • "Poverty and Social Impact Analysis in PRGF-Supported Programs," December 2002 (687kb PDF)
• Inter-Agency Cooperation
  • Country Analytic Work Joint Website
• New Rules for Global Finance Coalition
  • Ex-ante Poverty Impact Assessment of Macroeconomic Policies (EPIAM)
• Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
  • PRSP Monitoring & Synthesis Project website
  • Research in Policy and Development (RAPID) website — better utilization of research and evidence in development policy and practice.
• World Bank
  • Good Practice Note: Using Poverty and Social Impact Analysis to Support Development Policy Operations (Consultation Draft, December 3, 2007)  
  • PovertyNet: Impact Evaluation Key Readings (see Economy-Wide Program Evaluation)
  • Integrating Gender into PSIAs, May 2004 (18kb PDF)
  • Poverty and Trade Research web page

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