Resources

PSIA Resources and Tools:

Key Tools and Guidance:

See the tools below and/or the World Bank PSIA website.

• PSIA E-learning Course - provides PSIA training in three modules in an easy to use interactive on-line format ( please click yes when asked if you want to close the window):
• Module 1: The PSIA Approach - How and when it is applied
• Module 2: Overview of tools and methods
• Module 3: PSIA Good Practices

 

• World Bank PSIA User's Guide - Provides suggestions on how to approach the analysis and presents both economic and social analysis tools and methods.
• English (532kb zip) / English (660kb PDF)
• French (650kb PDF)

• Spanish (699kb PDF)

 

• Tools for Institutional, Political and Social Analysis (TIPS) in PSIA -
  
  Volume 1: A Conceptual Framework- Presents a conceptual overview of the elements that make up institutional, political and social analysis for PSIA, organised as follows: Part 1 introduces the sourcebook. Part 2 introduces PSIA and its main objectives and briefly reviews the World Bank User’s Guide to PSIA (World Bank, 2003a), focusing on three important areas for robust PSIA: 1) establishing the counterfactual, 2) identifying transmission channels and 3) identifying direct and indirect impacts of policy reform. A sixth channel is introduced for cases where authority – comprising power, structures and processes – is directly changed through policy reforms, notably through civil service reform, decentralisation and other similar institutional reforms.
  
  The remainder of the Sourcebook presents technical guidance at three levels of analysis. Part 3 introduces tools for macro-level analysis of the country and reform context, Part 4 describes tools for analysing the meso-level processes of policy implementation and Part 5 introduces tools for analysing the meso- and micro-level impact of policy reform. Part 6 shows how this analysis can be used to assess the risk to policy reform. Part 7 briefly concludes. A bibliography of useful reference material is provided.
  
  Volume II: Annex of Tools - Provides more detailed guidance and illustration of the use of specific tools and analytical frameworks for PSIA. These tools are clustered according to the three levels of analysis introduced in Volume 1: Country and Reform Context, Policy Implementation Process and Impacts of Policy Reform. In addition to these three levels of analysis, Volume 2 introduces tools for assessing Uncertainties and Risk to Policy Reform. The Volume also includes Guidance Notes on PSIA Principles that have been produced by DFID and the World Bank. Find the following short case studies:
  Combined Methods Case study: Malawi Agricultural Market Reform PSIA
  Combined Methods Case Study. Rwanda PSIA: Tea sector reform
  Combined Methods Case study: Yemen Energy Reform PSIA
  Combined Methods Case study. Zambia PSIA: Land Reform
  Combined Methods Case Study. Albania PSIA: Decentralization and Water Sector Privatization Reform
  Combined Methods Case study: Abolition of user fees in health units in Uganda

 

Poverty and Social Impact Analysis: Lessons and Examples from Implementation World Bank. Presents a collection of case studies that illustrate the spectrum of sectors and policy reforms to which PSIA can be applied; it also elaborates on the broad range of analytical tools and techniques that can be used for PSIA.

Other Resources:

• The North Sea Manifesto: Action plan on PSIA for Bilateral Donors , October 2003 - Outlines a common understanding among donors of PSIA and the principles that should guide them.
• Open on impact? Slow progress in World Bank and IMF poverty analysis - Eurodad’s report argues that the IFIs are still not living up to commitments to opening up policy space in developing countries. The promised poverty and social impact analysis to be done before reforms are not working as it should. Also in Español 3.3MB, Francais 2.61 MB.
• Principles for PSIA Process in Policy Cycles and Stakeholder Participation , GTZ/ DFID, September 2005.
• Eurodad PSIA electronic conference: From 1-22 November Eurodad is running an electronic conference on poverty and social impact analysis for evidence based and pro-poor policy making. Version française, Version espanol.
• Integrating Gender into PSIAs , May 2004 (18kb PDF)
• PRSP Monitoring & Synthesis Project: Briefing Note #8 Learning the Lessons on PSIA, A Synthesis of Experience from the DFID Pilot Studies, October 2003 (90kb PDF).
• PSIA: Common Themes and Issues Arising from Five Pilot Studies, October 2002 (35kb PDF).

ODI: PSIA website - includes follow up on PSIA country studies: http://www.odi.org.uk/prspsynthesis/index.html