Reports on Following – Up the Implementation of Poverty Reduction
Strategy Activities
First: Data source
Poverty is considered to be one of the multi – dimensions social phenomena closely
related to the millennium development goals as poverty reduction is the first goal that
all countries seek to attain. Accordingly, poverty reduction strategy aimed to eliminate
poverty by distinct efforts exerted by Ministry of Planning through establishing a
national committee headed by deputy Ministry of Planning and consists of
representatives of the parliament, ministries , relevant entities and Kurdistan Region.
Efforts of poverty reduction strategy represented in a financial allocation to the poorest
governorates according to the findings of poverty measurement and analysis for 2007
and to the relevant ministries to implement the activities stated in the strategy
document tabulated in 6 outcomes and 27 outputs. The committee presented two
reports for 2011 and 2012 to follow up and assess the achievements attained in the
frame of the implementation of the national strategy (2010 – 2014) and defined in
details the challenges face the ministries, governorates and relevant entities that hinder
the activity implementation. The first annual report demonstrated strategy
implementation progress in 2011 with an indication to the basic information on
supported entities, type of finance, duration of implementation and challenges.
The second report demonstrated poverty reduction activities implemented in 2012 by
the allocations of investment budget in addition to two poor- targeted projects ,
namely; develop vulnerable villages and slums ( develop one slum or more to raise
living standard through providing services) and 2012 Iraq Poverty Map Survey (provide
poverty map on which poverty pockets are geographically distributed which reduce
waste of financial resources when implementing poor targeted projects. Poverty
reduction activities of development plans amounted (93) distributed on 6 outcomes,
most of these activities aim at improving the poor health status , education and decent
housing as well as attaining higher income for the poor and reducing gender inequality.
The report also demonstrated the priorities of poverty reduction in the governorates
through poverty reduction strategy allocations of 2013 investment budget.
Second: Methodology
First annual report included implementation of strategy activities for 2011withen
development plan of ministries and governorates according to decision of ministers
council no. 409 for 2009 , whereas, implemented 100 activity overall governorates
,report data based on executive fact of activities by ministries ,governorates and
Departments not linked to the Ministry, Report was released at 15/2/2012, preparing
during two months from 15/2/2011.
Second annual report included most important achievements until (31/12/2012), problems
and challenges from data that has been collected from ministries and local governments
covered by the strategic activities, depending on a questionnaire to follow –up work ,
focal points cooperation with the executive management of the Poverty Reduction
Strategy to be accomplished. Report was released at 4/2012, preparing during three
months from 31/12/2012
administration prepared a questionnaire to follow –up work and achievement ratios of
activities , prepared within a cooperation with international bank experts ,and through
meeting continuously with a members (head of follow –up and planning department or
governor assistant ) from ministries and governorates for this purpose , and they are
practiced on implementation of strategy activities inside and outside of Iraq .
Data sources of report depending on the mechanism of Focal Points in ministries about
implementation fact and Identify project activities related to the poor including
questionnaire of implemented activity, so including Information about tabulations
exchange and source of funding ,beginning and finishing date of implementation ,
planned and actual technical achievement ratios ,as well as financial achievement ratio
and notices and implementation obstacles ,activities data was collected quarterly,
Third: Terms &Concepts
Informal settlements: the UN (UNSTAT, 2005) define informal settlements as „1. areas
where groups of housing units have been constructed on land that the occupants have no
legal claim to, or occupy illegally; 2. unplanned settlements and areas where housing is
not in compliance with current planning and building regulations (unauthorized
housing).“
Poverty Measure: poverty measure depending on three parts: (A) - digital indicator
welfare (B)-poverty line (C)-Estimate of poverty range (size)
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Digital indicator of welfare: individual expenditures indicators about commodity
and services as a measure of welfare .despite of the average of individual
expenditures not covered all welfare sides, but useful to define the poorest
families. The average of individual expenditures considered to calculation of
indicator at actual units. Modified indicator to remove the differences in price
because of geographic location and temporal dimension.
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Poverty line: The idea of the cost of basic needs method to develop the poverty
line so that it is equal to the cost of consumer package sufficient to meet basic
consumer needs, so the poverty line is equal to cover basic food needs plus covers
non-food basic needs.
Poverty level: measured in two main parts : (head count index )and (poverty gap
index)
Poverty size: the proportion of individuals who fall below the poverty line, the
proportion of individuals who are unable to secure their basic food and non-food
items. Despite the simplicity of this indicator, but it is insensitive to clarify the
differences in the depth of poverty.
The poverty gap: the index provides information useful to know how much is the
level of household moves away from the poverty line. It is calculated by
collecting cases the difference in the levels of the poor from the poverty line (the
sum of the differences between individual expenditure for real poor united the
poverty line) and divided by the total population, and uses the measurement of
poverty gap to determine the resources needed to lift the poor to convert from
below the poverty line to just above that level.
Poverty Reduction Strategy: national document reflect the State's obligations to its
citizens to achieve development and poverty reduction ,The government's program and
framework to work with donor countries and organizations to continue economic reforms
and financial, administrative and achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
Logical framework: a way of thinking and logical analysis and appropriate methodology
for the preparation and implementation of poverty reduction programs, because it
depends a set of concepts can be used in the planning, design and evaluation.
General Goal: The goal is long-term, which is accessed through the achievement of
outcomes associated with it, and the overall objective of poverty reduction strategy in
Iraq.
Outcomes: the results achieved by the strategy, lead collectively to achieve the overall
objective of the strategy. Each outcome of a multi-sectors nature and is achieved through
a variety of sectors output in the light of certain assumptions. Has developed the
following six strategic outcomes: (a higher income from work for the poor; improve the
level of health, deployment and improve the education; environment better housing,
effective social protection, less disparity between poor women and men)
Outputs: short-term results, which requires implementation to achieve outcomes. And all
the way out is located within a particular sector, and represents what is being supplied
and outfitted goods and services or practices in the sector, the six outcomes included 27
outputs of strategy.
Assumptions: describe the circumstance that should be achieved at the level of the
director if the outcome to be achieved through the associated output falls outside the
control of the implementers.
Activities: are activities that must be performed within a specific period of time in order
to achieve a particular output. And requires the implementation of activities to mobilize
material and human resources, technology and knowledge in order to produce a specific
output or contribute to these outputs, outputs of strategy included 87 activities.
Indicators: measure the extent of implementation of the activity or output and to any
extent to which the impact of any of them, strategy included indicators each outcome,
output and Activity.
Funding: The budget type that are used to implement the activity and be either
investment budget or the development of regions, the current budget, budget revive the
marshes, budget of poverty reduction strategy ... etc.
Ratio of Technical completion planned: Achievement ratio of annual technical planned
for the activity.
The ratio of completion actual or technical realized: Achievement ratio of actual
achievement.
Urban: means areas within the municipal boundaries or within the limits of the
mayoralty of Baghdad.
Rural: means located within the areas outside municipal boundaries or outside the
boundaries of the mayoralty of Baghdad.
Fourth: The Calculation
There are no methods for calculating
Fifth: Classifications
Items of Poverty Reduction Strategy Located within the overall objective, has a "poverty
reduction in Iraq," was based on the strategic approach to the logical framework whereby
identify six outcomes essential should be achieved to reach the general target, in order to
achieve outcomes have been identified outputs for each outcome, which included all
output a number of activities that should be implemented to ensure achieve. Have also
been identified assumptions that represent the desired conditions offered to coincide with
the implementation of any output in order to achieve the outcome that is located within it.
And at each of the activities that are to be:
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Identify those responsible to the implementation of the activity (ministry, the head
of hand, civil society organizations, and international organizations).
Identify fund type who helps in the implementation of activity (within the general,
operational or investment budget or grant international).
The strategy included indicators for each outcome and some outputs, and
performance indicators for each output and activity, commensurate with the
requirements of the monitoring and evaluation processes, and facilitates the
management of the implementation process by the authorities concerned.
Six tables contain the main presentation of the components of the logical framework
derived from the outcomes:
Table (1): First outcome: Higher income for the poor
First output
Assumptions
Factors are available to increase the productivity of agricultural work for the poor
Poor used available factors effectively
Activities
Implementing
partners and
monitoring
Second output
Assumptions
Parliament , Council of Ministers
Reconsider agricultural
,Ministry of Agriculture , Water
legislations and policies for the
Resources - counterparts in the
benefit of poor farmers.
Kurdistan region , private sector
Loans program for income-generating activities for the poor
Controls to guarantee coverage
for the poor loan program for the
establishment of small-projects
The poor benefit from the loan
for income generating.
program for increasing their incomes.
Activities
Implementing
partners and
monitoring
Third output
Assumptions
Providing and maintain the
infrastructure supporting the
production and marketing.
A training program for farmers on
farming methods and modern
irrigation.
awareness campaigns for the
poor to benefit from the program
Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs government and private banks, civil
Organize training programs for
society organizations, local
the poor who received loans to
communities - counterparts in the
help them in their use.
Kurdistan region
System to review the minimum wage according to changes in national poverty line
The implementation of the
The private sector is committed to
inspection visits and monitors the
application the minimum wage
Activities
application of the law.
correctly
Include flexible paragraphs of
Implementing
partners and
monitoring
Fourth output
Assumptions
Implementing
partners and
monitoring
labor law to determining the
minimum wage appropriate with
the poverty line.
The definition of workers who
receive the minimum wage of
their rights to raise wages for
Parliament - the Ministry of Labor and
compatibility with the poverty line.
Social Affairs - unions and trade
Diagnosis and operating unit in
unions - counterparts in the Kurdistan
the offices in all governorates
region - civil society organizations
workers can be reviewed at the
lack of commitment by employers
by law.
Labor offices has been established to facilitate the access of the poor
The offices Working in
National labor's ability to compete the
coordination with the private
foreign labor
sector to provide work.
Activities
The offices Working in
Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs coordination with the training to
provincial councils - counterparts in the
rehabilitation job skills of the
Kurdistan region - private sector
poor.
Fifth output
Government supported the initiatives of civil society support for the poor
Assumptions
Civil society benefit from the
government's support for the poor
Sixth output
Assumptions
Implementing
partners and
monitoring
Participate in income-generating
programs for the poor contributed
by donors.
Activities
The Ministry of State for Civil Society
The government is providing
Affairs - Ministry of Planning, civil society
facilities and grant allocations to
organizations - counterparts in the
organizations with programs for
Kurdistan region
the poor.
Established evening craft centers and training programs in income-generating occupations
especially for the poor
Awareness-raising campaigns for
Poor enrollment centers and training
the poor enrollment centers and
programs
training programs.
Activities
Council of Ministers - the Ministry of
Engage civil society
Labor and Social Affairs - civil society
organizations to open training
organizations - counterparts in the
centers for the poor.
Kurdistan region
Table (2): Second outcome: Improved level of health
First output
Assumptions
Implementing
partners and
monitoring
Second output
Primary health care services for the poor and easy to reach
Training staffs of primary
Provides the confidence of the community
health care centers.
primary health care services
- Availability of qualified in primary health
Construction of primary health
care centers
Activities care centers equipped.
Ministry of Health - Ministry of Planning counterparts in the Kurdistan region
Increase the number of mobile
clinics to remote areas.
Increase awareness of health in poor areas to control the risk factors for diseases
transitional and non-transitional
Assumptions
Implementing
partners and
monitoring
Third output
Assumptions
Implementing
partners and
monitoring
Fourth output
Assumptions
Implementing
partners and
monitoring
Fifth output
Assumptions
Implementing
partners and
monitoring
Sixth output
Assumptions
Implementing
partners and
monitoring
The existence of the poor's willingness to
change the beliefs
- Post relevant ministries, civil society
organizations, health departments in the
provinces
Activities
Awareness campaigns means
audio-visual and read and
seminars
Ministry of Health - Ministry of Health in the
Kurdistan region - and the media
A government program to deliver safe drinking water and sanitation services in poor areas
The flow of resources allocated to projects
Expansion projects for the
- Contractors commitment to the
delivery of drinking water to
implementation of projects
poor areas
The Ministry of Planning and Development
Activities
Cooperation - Municipalities and Public
Works - mayoralty of Baghdad - the
Expand sanitation projects
provincial councils - counterparts in the
Kurdistan region
promote coverage of the poor areas expanded program on immunization activities
Strengthen surveillance of
transition disease
Stabilize the security situation
Implementation of vaccine
Activities campaigns
Perpetuate campaigns
Ministry of Health - Ministry of Health of the
Supplies (vaccines, cold chain,
Kurdistan region
transport)
Improved the nutritional status of the poor
The continued get of the poor
to PDS.
Efficient distribution mechanism secures the
arrival of feed material to the target groups
Activities
Re-inclusion of elementary
school to school feeding.
Ministry of Commerce - Ministry of Health counterparts in the Kurdistan region
Program to strengthen reproductive health for the poor and under implementation
Implementation of awarenessConvinced women in the slums of maternal
raising campaigns on
care services and child.
reproductive health programs.
- Poor communities’ response to family
Training of medical and health
planning programs.
Activities
staffs.
The continued provision of
Ministry of Health - Ministry of Health of the
materials and supplies
Kurdistan region
standard.
Table 3: Third Outcome: Publish and improve education of the poor
First output
Assumptions
The enactment of compulsory basic education, especially in poor and rural areas
Amendment of Article (34 / I) of the Constitution
Effective cooperation by
to extend compulsory education to middle stage
households in rural areas and
(third grade average).
poor neighborhoods in the
Activities
Database configuration for the age group covered
application of the law of
by the compulsory education according to the
compulsory education.
geographical distribution and constantly updated,
- The effective cooperation of
and by focusing on rural and poor areas to facilitate
local administration in
monitoring the implementation
of the Compulsory Education
Law
Implementing
partners and
monitoring
Second output
Assumptions
Implementing
partners and
monitoring
Third output
Assumptions
Implementing
partners and
monitoring
Fourth output
the follow-up of families covered.
A partnership program with civil society
organizations and relevant government ministries
in the implementation of compulsory education.
Activation of the relationship with the parentteacher according to legal and institutional formula
designed to promote a culture of compulsory
education.
Reconsider of Educational Information Department
to create awareness of the importance of
commitment to compulsory education.
Develop a system to monitor and follow-up of
dropouts in the category of compulsory education
according to the annual plan programs for the
Ministry of Education (teachers field teams, be
considered to reduce the chances of leakage
standard for efficiency, etc.).
Parliament - the Council of
Ministers - Ministry of
Education - Ministry of State
for civil society - civil society
the constitutional amendment to Article
organizations - counterparts in
compulsory education
the Kurdistan region
Priority to the establishment of primary and middle schools and secondary in the slums
Create an information base for the distribution of
educationally poor areas (both geographically and
administratively) and according to the degree of
deprivation of middle and secondary schools.
Allocation of funding under the investment budget
Support guaranteed by the
by educational stages (of government spending
Ministry of Planning and
priority educational investment) with priority in the
Development Cooperation of
allocation of construction and rehabilitation of
the priorities identified by the
middle and junior high schools in the villages and
Ministry of Education
Activities slums and in accordance with appropriate limits of
time
Ministry of Education - local
administrations - the
provincial councils counterparts in the Kurdistan
region
Achieve adapt between desired size of building and
number of covered education for geographical area
(the absorptive capacities of schools).
Develop a program with the support of local
governments for the establishment and
rehabilitation of a private middle and secondary
school
Network Protection Act was amended to link the registration of children of families covered by
basic education
The efficiency of the database,
Database configuration at governorate, district and
especially for children of
sub district level, of children in the primary school
families covered by social
from poor families covered by a network of
protection network
protection.
Reconsider the law of social protection network to
Activities
Council of Ministers ensure the registration of children of families
Ministry of Education covered.
Ministry of Labor and Social
Preparation a mechanism for the exchange of
Affairs - counterparts in the
information between the Ministries of Education
Kurdistan region
and Labor and Social Affairs.
Improved the efficiency of education in poor areas in urban and rural areas
Assumptions
Implementing
partners and
monitoring
Fifth output
Assumptions
Implementing
partners and
monitoring
Sixth output
Assumptions
Providing electric power to
rural and poor areas schools
The Ministry of Education Ministry of Education in the
Kurdistan region
Activities
Given priority in the distribution of related
educational services efficiently Education
(laboratories, teaching aids, etc.) for poor regions.
Giving priority in the training of teachers in poor
urban and rural areas.
procedures taken to reduce the numbers of illiterates
Enactment of mandatory literacy.
Enrollment illiterate literacy
centers
Establishment of literacy centers.
parliament - Ministry of
Activities
Education - civil society
Awareness campaigns to join the literacy centers.
organizations - counterparts in
the Kurdistan region
connect the curriculum of vocational education to the labor market, especially in the agricultural
and rural sector
Promotion of international reports and bulletins
Clear diagnosis to the needs of
Activities about linking vocational education to the needs of
the labor market
the labor market.
Table 4: Fourth Outcome: Better housing for the poor
First output
Assumptions
Implementing
partners and
monitoring
Second output
Assumptions
Implementing
partners and
monitoring
Third output
Assumptions
Expanded state projects for the construction concessional suitable housing units for the poor
The implementation of projects for the
construction of residential complexes for
the poor low-cost specifications.
Develop a system for identifying
Residential units within prepared
beneficiaries.
of these projects benefit the poor
Develop a system to receive the costs of
housing unit’s concessional beneficiaries.
Activities
Develop programs to involve the poor in
choosing the type of housing
Council of Ministers - Ministry of
Housing and Reconstruction - the
Encouraging department’s endowments
Ministry of Planning - private
and social security funds and minors to
sector
participate in the financing of projects and
Counterparts in the Kurdistan
low-cost housing.
region
Program to encourage private sector participation in a low-cost housing
Action encourages the participation of the
The private sector is able to implement
private sector to build housing units in
these projects
poor areas.
Council of Ministers - Planning Housing and Reconstruction Activities
mayoralty of Baghdad - and the
Take action to provide the necessary
Ministry of Municipalities - Ministry of
infrastructure for these projects.
Electricity - National Investment
Commission - counterparts in the
Kurdistan region - the private sector
procedures have been implemented to ensure a suitable environment surrounding housing
Paving projects and lighting roads leading
Activities
- To provide sustainability and ongoing
to the slums.
Implementing
partners and
monitoring
maintenance by the authorities
concerned.
- The maintain of the poor on the
surrounding environment.
Ministry of Housing and Construction Electricity - Baghdad Secretariat Ministry of Transport - Ministry of
Commerce - Ministry of Planning mayoralty of Baghdad - the Ministry of
Youth and Sports - the provincial local
- the Ministry of Municipalities counterparts in the Kurdistan region the private sector - civil society
organizations
Providing public transport services.
Regulation of markets in slums
Providing waste disposal services.
The establishment of scientific and sports
clubs and public parks.
Awareness programs for the poor to
preservation of the environment
surrounding the housing.
Providing maintenance services for the
surrounding housing installations.
Table 5: Fifth Outcome: Effective social protection for the poor
First output
Assumptions
Implementing
partners and
monitoring
Second output
Assumptions
Implementing
partners and
monitoring
Third output
Assumptions
Implementing
partners and
monitoring
Procedures to ensure the proper application of the system of social protection network
Action for the adoption of decentralization in
the management of social protection
network.
Develop a data base for families covered
and continuously updated.
Develop a program to raise capacity for the
rehabilitation of working on the application of
The community aware of the aim of the
network system.
system of social protection network
Strict control systems on the mechanisms of
- The enactment of the social protection
action and the implementation of the law by
network
the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs
Activities Expedite the smart card system procedures.
Prompt information program designed for
citizens to make them aware of their rights
and conditions of inclusiveness and
deterrent penalties in the case of overtaking
on the network.
Partnership with civil society organizations in
Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs targeting the poor and evaluate network
provincial councils - Finance - Ministry of
system.
State for community organizations Develop a mechanism to connect the
counterparts in the Kurdistan region amount of the subsidy rate of inflation while
international organizations
providing inflation rates for commodities.
use of the national poverty line adopted in identifying target groups subsidy
Identify target groups using the national
Update the national poverty line each year to
poverty line
take advantage of Census data for the year
Activities
2010 population and household surveys and
Ministry of Planning - Ministry of Planning
other statistical sources
Kurdistan Region
Put out of action PDS to target the poor and most needy groups
Provide a reliable data base to identify the
transfer funds earned blocking the ration
poor and most needy groups
card to the social protection network
Activities
Ministry of Finance - Ministry of Labor Monitoring and evaluation system and
Ministry of Commerce - regulators reform of PDS
counterparts in Kurdistan region
Table 6: Sixth Outcome: less disparity between poor women and men
First output
Assumptions
Implementing
partners and
monitoring
Second output
Assumptions
Implementing
partners and
monitoring
Third output
Assumptions
Implementing
partners and
monitoring
Expanded programs to address the factors causing low enrollment of girls in primary , intermediate
and secondary schools
Awareness seminars (at least one) before the
start of the school year in poor areas to
spread the culture and encourage enrollment
Provide the necessary conditions for the
to primary education compulsory and
activation of the Compulsory Education
universal education for girls.
Law.
Give priority to the establishment of schools
- Poor families’ response to those
for girls in primary and secondary slums.
programs.
Activities
Activation of the monitoring system
enrollment rates in primary and secondary
schools and diagnosis of progress.
Ministry of Education - local
administrations - Ministry of Transport Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs Providing logistical facilities (transport, etc.) to
Civil society organizations facilitate the access of girls to school.
counterparts in the Kurdistan region
Specialized training programs for poor women to increase employment opportunities for them
The participation of the private sector
and civil society organizations in
organizing training courses for women.
- Enrollment of women at high rates to
these programs.
Implementation of training courses for poor
women in rural areas
Activities
Cooperation with the private sector for urging
to support vocational rehabilitation programs
in the Iraqi rural.
Continuous monitoring system to train and
rehabilitate women
Issued legislation to achieve social security for poor women
The political will required for issuing
The establishment of a social security fund for
legislation
workers in the unorganized sector.
Establish an effective system for
implementation of Social Security Act so as to
ensure the rights of working women.
Council of Ministers - the Ministry of
Awareness programs for women in the Iraqi
Activities
Labor and Social Affairs - Civil society
rural, to comply with the social security
organizations - counterparts in the
system
Kurdistan region
Development of programs for women to
ensure and recognition their rights.
Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs - the
private sector - civil society
organizations - counterparts in the
Kurdistan region
Sixth: - Data Availability
Geographical range for publishing data: report in 2011 includes the conduct and
completion rates of poverty reduction strategy activities, implemented by the ministries
and governorates of its development plans and at governorates level for 2011.
report in 2012 includes the completion rates of poverty reduction strategy activities,
implemented by the ministries and governorates , funded by the strategy Sorted by
outcomes of those activities.In addition summary of implementation of activities and
projects for 2012 , implemented by the ministries and governorates of its development
plans and at governorates level for 2012
Uncovered regions: report in 2011 excluding (Kirkuk, Salah Al-deen, Dohouk ) did not
implemented activities related with achievement of strategy targets in the plan for 2011 .
Periodic report: report of the implementation of strategic activities, issued annually,
starting at 2011
Report format: is available as hard and digital copy (PDF) and (WORD)