Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) is initiating a 'training of trainers' programme for National Poverty Targeting Survey using the poverty scorecard tool developed by World Bank for Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) in Dera Ghazi Khan district, from December 21 (today).
PPAF has arranged a three-day Training of Trainers (ToT) for 30 supervisory staff including supervisors, forward campaigners and editors in the first batch and after completion of field teams' training, the data collection exercise would get underway in the district.
As many as 30 field teams comprising 390 survey staff would be deployed for conducting survey in the district. PPAF has already started pre-launch activities and completed survey planning including important components of recruitment and training of survey filed teams, logistic arrangements, local level public information campaign, enumeration of poverty scorecard, monitoring and evaluation. The door-to-door survey will start on the heels of the training of trainers in Dera Ghazi Khan District.
PPAF and BISP divisional team will facilitate the training event on targeting requirements, data collection methodology, implementation mechanism, quality control aspects, monitoring and evaluation besides sharing lessons learnt from the Test Phase 2009. PPAF focuses strategic emphasis on geographical and program integration, achievement of depth and intensity of coverage, stemming from which is an explicit focus on poverty targeting and inclusion.-PR