Target Audience

PGP is targeting all stakeholders involved in the design and implementation of PRSPs. This includes: government officials (policy, management and technical level), civil society organizations, the private sector, media, parliament, research and policy institutes. Overall, PGP is focusing special attention on the needs of PRSP Teams.

The PGP targets low income countries in order to maximize impact and will be rolled out in different regions, beginning with selected countries in Latin America and Central Asia.

Participating countries are ranked into three levels of priority and allocated a level of support consistent with this ranking. The following criteria are used to assign this ranking:

• the demand and need for the products offered;
• the absorption capacity of the country;
• the availability of local management; and
• the availability of funds.

In each case, a country strategy is developed to guide the roll-out of programs. This strategy is drawn up in close consultation with the PRSP team, World Bank staff and other partners. It recognizes that the needs of a country are determined by various factors including: the stage at which a country stands in terms of the PRSP cycle; its existing skills level; the key sectoral concerns of a country; and the existence and strength of local knowledge institutions.

Target Audience for PGP's main program components

Three groups of actors are targeted by the various activities of the Poverty Analysis Initiative. This multiple-target approach has been designed to ensure that all those involved in the formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of public interventions are equipped with to tools necessary to ensure increased use of information and analysis.

These groups are:

Senior policymakers: The key actors for the promotion of evidence-based policy formulation.

Managers of information systems: The key actors for the design and implementation of efficient information systems, which ensure greater information flow and closer collaboration between producers of data and information, analysts, and policy makers.

Technical analysts: The key actors to ensure the production of quality and timely data, and rigorous and relevant analysis of the data from all ministries.

Civil society: Non-technical courses are developed for NGOs, representatives from the private sector communities, Parliamentarians, etc.

Donors and other agencies: PGP also tries to customize courses for donor staff and UN agencies.