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The Public Policy Institute for Wales

Emyr Williams

What makes an effective Anti-Poverty strategy.

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The Public Policy Institute for Wales

Emyr Williams

What makes an effective Anti-Poverty strategy.

www.ppiw.org.uk @PPIfW

@PPIfW

www.ppiw.org.uk

Our Mission: Using evidence to improve policy Our Mission: Using evidence to improve policy

The Public Policy Institute for Wales:

• Works directly with Ministers to identify their evidence needs, make links

between the Welsh Government’s in-house research, and commission external analysis and advice from authoritative independent experts;

• Assists researchers to increase the impact of their work by developing

stronger links with the Welsh Government; and

• Facilitates cross-jurisdictional learning between Wales and the rest of the UK

The Public Policy Institute for Wales:

• Works directly with Ministers to identify their evidence needs, make links

between the Welsh Government’s in-house research, and commission external analysis and advice from authoritative independent experts;

• Assists researchers to increase the impact of their work by developing

stronger links with the Welsh Government; and

• Facilitates cross-jurisdictional learning between Wales and the rest of the UK

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How we work How we work

The Institute works in two main modes:

• bespoke analysis and advice commissioned by individual Ministers; and
• longer-term research on strategic cross-cutting challenges that face the

Welsh Government as a whole as well as policy makers in other parts of the UK.

• One of which is Poverty.

The Institute works in two main modes:

• bespoke analysis and advice commissioned by individual Ministers; and
• longer-term research on strategic cross-cutting challenges that face the

Welsh Government as a whole as well as policy makers in other parts of the UK.

• One of which is Poverty.

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Outputs Outputs

Rapid reviews Think pieces Commentaries Workshops Ministerial briefings Literature reviews Expert analysis Rapid reviews Think pieces Commentaries Workshops Ministerial briefings Literature reviews Expert analysis

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What makes a good anti poverty strategy? What makes a good anti poverty strategy?

1. Political Leadership 2. Accountability and Coordination 3. Links to Economic Policy 4. External Stakeholder Involvement 5. Monitoring and evaluation 6. Institutions and Systems 7. Originality

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Political Leadership Political Leadership

• Leadership demonstrates prioritisation and importance of the

issue.

• Key messages need to be fed down from the top and understood

throughout the organisation.

• Needs to be common understanding of goals and aims and how

they will be achieved.

• Everyone knowing their role in achieving the goals.

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Accountability and Coordination Accountability and Coordination

• Poverty is a Cross Cutting issue.
• Requires a coordinated response across portfolios with everyone

knowing their roles and what others are doing.

• Each portfolio should have specific aims and targets with officers and

members accountable for achieving those targets.

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Links to Economic Policy Links to Economic Policy

• Poverty is inextricably linked to economic policy. A anti poverty

policy in isolation is practically useless.

• Economic policy provides the drivers for poverty reduction.
• Potential to use commissioning and procurement for poverty

reduction

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External Stakeholder Involvement External Stakeholder Involvement

• Solutions to Poverty cannot be imposed from above. We do not

have all the answers!!!!

• Requires bottom up engagement from those experiencing

poverty to find out what their issues are.

• People in poverty are not a homogenous group.
• Effective continuous engagement will help with buy in, and

should be an ongoing process which informs strategies and plans as situations change.

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Monitoring and Evaluation Monitoring and Evaluation

• Clear aims and goals also require clear measures of success

which need to be monitored regularly.

• Projects and programmes need to have evaluation built in from

the outset as this can impact the design of a programme.

• Sometimes more can be learnt from a projects that fails than a

successful project but only when evaluated properly.

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Institutions and Systems Institutions and Systems

• It is not effective for existing systems or institutions to ‘bend’ to

accommodate poverty reduction.

• If there needs to be institutional or systematic redesign then that

should be part of the strategy.

• Dedicated teams or resources are required and just adding

responsibilities to peoples day jobs does not work.

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Originality Originality

• Strategies which were least successful were those which just

accumulated existing strategies and fit them under the poverty heading.

• Anti poverty strategies need to be original.

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