Programme - IZNE - Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg

Workshop
Measuring the social, economic and
political effects of social protection:
How to overcome the challenges?
15 – 17 April 2015
Venue: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik
(DIE), Bonn
16 April 2015 (Thursday)
9:00
Official Opening
Welcome by Imme Scholz (Vice-Director of German Development Institute /
Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Welcome by Heike Kuhn (Head of Division: Sectoral and thematic policies;
poverty reduction and social protection, Federal Ministry for Economic
Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Welcome by Günther Taube (Director of Division: Education, Health, Social
Protection, Gesellschaft für international Zusammenarbeit - GIZ)
Questions & Answers
Moderation: Christof Kersting
09:45 Setting the scene
Markus Loewe (German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für
Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Katja Bender (Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg - HBRS)
“Framework of the Workshop“
10:15 COFFEE / TEA BREAK
10:45 First thematic session:
Isolating the effects of SP programmes/
Solving the attribution problem (1)
(1) Ana Heloísa Viana Silva Moreno (Ministry of Social Development and
Hunger Fight of the Brasilian Federal Government - MDS) “Challenges of
measuring social impacts of social assistance in Brazil”
(2) Rodrigo Martìnez (Oficial de Asuntos Sociales, Division de Desarrollo
Social , Comisión Económica para Américan Latina y el Caribe - CEPAL) “The
challenge of evaluating impacts of social protection at policy level”
(3) Catherine Agg (Freelance Researcher, Independent) “Moving away from
isolation? A qualitative study of welfare and social cohesion in Sri Lanka”
Session discussant: Ruslan Yemtsov (World Bank)
Moderation: Markus Loewe
12:15 LUNCH
13:30 Second thematic session:
Isolating the effects of SP programmes/
Solving the attribution problem (2)
(1) Cesar Del Pozo Loayza (Peruvian Centro de Estudios Regionales Andinos
Bartolomé de las Casas, Cusco, Perú) “The impact of linking conditional cash
transfers to agricultural credit on productive assets accumulation of rural
households in Peru”
(2) D. Rajasekhar (Centre for Decentraslisation & Development - CDD /
Institute for Social and Economic Change - ISEC, Bangalore) “Impact of
single window service centres on access to social protection among
unorganised workers in India - Challenges and responses”
Session discussant: Christoph Ernst (International Labour Organization - ILO)
Moderation: Callistus Agbaam
15:00 COFFEE / TEA BREAK
15:30 Third thematic session:
Tracing causal chains
(1) Christoph Strupat (University of Duisburg-Essen) “Social Health
Insurance in Ghana – Impacts on Health, Income and Informal Risk-Sharing
Networks”
(2) Anna McCord (Overseas Development Institute - ODI) “Developing
Practical Methodologies to Assess the Spatial, Temporal and Socio-economic
Distribution of the Impacts of Public Works Programme Assets”
Session discussant: Caroline Tassot (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development - OECD)
Moderation: Francesco Burchi
16:30 Wrap-up of the day
Core messages
Markus Loewe (German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für
Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
17:00 End of the day
18:30 Dinner (“Haus am Rhein”)
17 April 2015 (Friday)
9:00
Introduction for the day
Recap
Katja Bender (Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg - HBRS)
9:15
Fourth thematic session:
Challenges posed by program design
(1) Viola Werner (Chair of Political Economy and Development, University of
Zurich)) „Methodological Challenges Resulting From Implementation
Weaknesses: The Case of Social Pensions in India”
(2) Fabio Veras Soares (International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth IPC-IG, United Nations Development Programme - UNDP) „The Social
Welfare Fund and the Yemen National Social Protection Monitoring Survey:
the challenges of combining a multi-purpose survey and an impact
assessment of a social protection programme”
Session discussant: Loreto Montserrat Martínez Oyarce (Fondo de Solidaridad e
Inversión Social - OSIS)
Moderation: Nikos Nikolidakis
10:15 COFFEE / TEA BREAK
10:45 Fifth thematic session:
Challenges in defining measurements and compiling survey data
(1) Thomas Sohnesen (Visiting Professor Copenhagen University) “Same
Question but Different Answer - Experimental Evidence on Questionnaire
Design’s Impact on Poverty Measured by Proxies”
(2) Istiana Hermawati (Research Body and Social Welfare Service
Development, Indonesia Social Ministry) “Evaluation research of expected
family program”
Session discussant: Ronald Wiman (National Institute for Health and Welfare /
Government of Finland)
Moderation: Jennifer Hennig
12:15 LUNCH
13:30 Sixth thematic session:
Political and administrative challenges
(1) Simone Cecchini, Luis Hernan Vargas (División de Desarrollo Social,
Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe - CEPAL, Naciones
Unidas) “Estimating coverage, investment and poverty reduction impact of
Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) in Latin America and the Caribbean”
(2) Miguel Vera Laguna (Labor Training Program - PROCAP, Swiss
Development Cooperation - SDC, Bolivia) “Assessing the difficulties and
solutions of the Bolivian Social Protection Network (BSPN) - The case of
primary data collection for monitoring and evaluation”
Session discussant: Andi Zaenal Abidin Dulung (Ministry of Social Affairs,
Indonesia)
Moderation: Katja Bender
15:00 COFFEE / TEA BREAK
15:30 Panel discussion
The way forward – how do we deal with the challenge of measuring
effects of social protection?
With:
(1) Huong Thi Lan Nguyen (Director General; Ministry of Labour, Invalids
and Social Affairs - MOLISA, Institute of Labour Science and Social Affairs ILSSA)
(2) Thania Paolo de la Garza Navarrete (Directora General Adjunta de
Evaluación; El Consejo Nacional de Evaluación de la Politica de Desarrollo
Social - CONEVAL)
(3) Fabio Veras Soares (International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth IPC-IG, United Nations Development Programme - UNDP)
(4) Markus Loewe (Senior Researcher; German Development Institute /
Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Moderation: Christof Kersting
16:30 Conclusion
Markus Loewe (German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für
Entwicklungspolitik DIE)
Katja Bender (Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg - HBRS)
17:00 End of Workshop
Your directions to the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für
Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Tulpenfeld 6, D - 53113 Bonn
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Take the U-Bahn U 16/ U 63 or U 66 to “Heussallee/Museumsmeile”. Take the
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at Tulpenfeld 6.
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of DIE at Tulpenfeld 6.
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