Tools for Institutional, Political and Social Analysis of Policy Reform: A Sourcebook for Development Practitioners or TIPS

The TIPS sourcebook, produced by the Social Development Department, provides practical guidance how to conduct social analysis in the context of Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA). An appraoch promoted by the World Bank to analyze distributional impacts of policy reforms on the well-being or welfare of different stakeholder groups (For more information on PSIA see www.worldbank.org/psia).

There is increasing recognition that failure to anticipate challenges to policy reform can harm implementation. TIPS addresses the sustainability of and risks to policy reform processes by focusing on political economy, power relations and social dynamics. The sourcebook complements previously developed resources on PSIA and fills a perceived gap by providing an analytical framework and a set of step-by-step tools. The TIPS Sourcebook 

• introduces how to apply social, institutional and political analysis in a systematic and coherent manner;
• pays attention to policy processes, stakeholder participation, dissemination and public disclosure; and
• introduces tools and instruments available to conduct this kind of analysis
• illustrates the tools and methods with examples from PSIA in-country experience?

The Sourcebook will be of interest to researchers and civil society groups who conduct policy analysis, and to donor agencies and policy makers in developing countries that commission such analysis and utilize the results.

On this website we present the

• TIPS Sourcebook in English as an e-book version and tell you how to obtain a hard cover version
• TIPS was initially launched as a web-based resource in 2005. This version covers the framework and the most essential tools and is available in French, Spanish and Portuguese.
• An online training course on the TIPS framework and the use of the recommended tools is also available (insert link here).

This sourcebook is co-sponsored by DFID, GTZ and World Bank on behalf of the PSIA Network.

For more information about this document contact:

Renate Kirsch rkirsch@worldbank.org, Jeremy Holland jeremy.holland@opml.co.uk,
Katja Jobes K-Jobes@dfid.gov.uk, Elke Kasmann elke.kasmann@gtz.de

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