OPHI Training for PEP survey teams from Nigeria, Chad and Sri Lanka

OPHI staff in Oxford conducted a training course on survey design, implementation and analysis for representatives of three successful teams that were awarded grants by OPHI and the Poverty and Economic Policy (PEP) network. 

The training preceded the three teams’ implementation of OPHI’s survey modules in parts of Chad, Nigeria and Sri Lanka. The surveys were designed to generate data on the Missing Dimensions and also to investigate the validity of the survey instruments in their particular countries. The course was created to familiarize the participants with academic research on survey design. This training also provided support to the participants’ design of an integrated questionnaire, guidelines for implementation, Access database, as well as the identification of key research questions and strategies for data tabulation and analysis–all of which they drew upon when implementing the survey in their own countries.

Results of the piloting of OPHI’s Missing Dimensions modules were presented at the 8th Poverty and Economic Policy Research Network (PEP Network) General Meeting in Dakar, Senegal in June. The pilots have yielded data on quality of work, empowerment, physical safety, the ability to go about without shame and psychological wellbeing, which can be used to create richer analyses of poverty. John Ataguba from the PEP Network presented a multidimensional poverty analysis based on these data, recently collected in Nigeria. Nilakshi da Silva presented an analysis of multidimensional poverty data from Badulla, Sri Lanka, and discussed its implications for improving the targeting and implementation of the National Social Protection Programme, Samurdhi. Celia Reyes from the Community-Based Monitoring System presented Missing Dimensions of Poverty: Implications for Local Poverty Measurement and Monitoring in the Philippines.

For more information on OPHI’s missing dimension program and the questionnaires that were administered in Igbo, Sinhala and Tamil, see our Missing Dimensions pages.