Long-term Sustainability of Poverty
Reduction Programmes
'Tracing the Movement and Experience of
Urban Poor Households over the Long Term' (R8126)
Introduction
Longitudinal studies tracing and recording changes in family fortunes over a long term have been used to monitor various social development programmes in many countries since the second World War. How comparable are these studies? Could the methodology be adapted to monitor and assess in general the sustainability of long-term Poverty Reduction Programmes? These questions were part of a Study carried out by the Development Planning Unit (University College London) and funded by the World Bank and the UK Department for International Development (DFID).
Could sample household interview studies carried out in
conjunction with town planning studies in Africa in the 1960s (Kaduna
by Max Lock & Partners) and 1970s (Lusaka by the Development Planning
Unit) be used as a base from which similar assessments could be made?
These cities were revisited in 2003 by the respective researchers. Download
the Kaduna Scoping Study report here.
The purpose was to look at the possibilities of tracing and using the
sample household interview surveys carried out in Kaduna and Lusaka as
a base for a more in-depth longitudinal study that would meet the evolving
standards being examined in the wider World Bank study. The reports of
these two Scoping Studies were considered, amongst many other issues concerning
Urban Longitudinal Research Methodology, at a joint DPU-ODI-World Bank-DFID
Workshop at the DPU in May 2003. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dpu/publications/working_papers.htm
No.124.
The Max Lock Centre concluded that although many
of the locations of the original 1965 survey could be traced in Kaduna
the almost forty year time span was too lengthy for any useful base to
be considered for the kind of sociological longitudinal research being
discussed at the Workshop. However, it was considered that useful research
could be designed to assess the impact of urban poverty alleviation programmes
on the basis of studying the physical and occupancy changes over that
period of time and setting a good base line for future work.
Last Updated: 15 February, 2008
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