Resources / Toolkits


Poverty Monitoring

Roma website - This website offers a wide range of segragated quantitative data, expert group materials, regional and national reports and experience database concerning the Roma issues in Central Europe and Balkans area.  

Diversity Management and the UNDP: Revisiting "The Dependency Trap"  

The United Nations Development Programme's Vulnerability Projects. Roma and Ethnic Data  

 

Vulnerability website - This website contains situation of Roma population assessment, datasets with socioeconomic indicators and data visualizations, compiled and analyzed as a part of the "Vulnerable Groups' Status in SEE and CEE" project. 

Risk assessment and mitigation analysis: micro-credits for Roma Communities in Hungary  

Preconditions for Employment for Roma  

Monitoring and Evaluation: quantity and quality    indicators  

Quantitative data collection on the status of Roma in SEE and CEE: Methodology, Purpose, and Policy Application  

Decade of Roma Inclusion Implementation: Purpose of collecting data and its possible application

Developing a Systematic approach for the Monitoring and Evaluation of future UNDP Community Development Projects
Impact Assessment as a Part of Evaluation Systems in Selected Development Assistance Organizations 
Measuring the effects of technical assistance in policy support and program development: mpact Assessment within UNDP/RBEC 
From Monitoring, Through Evaluation, To Impact Assessment: The case of NHDRs and vulnerable groups 

MDG

Millenium Develpment Goals website - This website covers the Millennium Development Goals agenda in Central Europe. Among its contents you can find national reports, datasets divided by respective goals, related documents and projects as well as useful links.

Human Development

Understanding Human Development 
NHDR policy note 
Almaty Human Development Workshop presentation 1 
Almaty Human Development Workshop presentation 2 
HDI indices calculation 
HDI disaggregation – problems and possible approaches 

Rescuing the Human Development Concept from the HDI - Reflections on a new agenda  

Tracking Human Development: The use of statistics in monitoring social conditions (english)
Tracking Human Development: The use of statistics in monitoring social conditions (russian)

 Forthcoming in 2008: 

  • Measuring Human Development: A Primer (russian)
  • Dissaggregation of Human Development Indicies: Opportunities and challenges
  • HD terminology glossary (english-russian)

Social Inclusion

Background resources/Powerpoints
Summary of the Virtual Roundtable on Social Exclusion, 2006
Social Inclusion lectures from the Human Development Summer Course at the Central European University (CEU), 2007 (Contact Susanne Milcher for further information)
HD Insights, Social Inclusion and Human Development, 2008
Conferences/events
Aligning the European Union Social Inclusion Process and the Millennium Development Goals (Vilnius, Lithuania, April 26-27, 2004)
Western Balkans Forum on Social Inclusion and the Millennium Development Goals (Tirana, Albania, June 23-24, 2005)
Policy Conference on Social Inclusion in BiH (28-29 November, 2006 in Sarajevo)
Policy Conference on Social Inclusion in Poland (29-30 November, 2006 in Warsaw)
CoP Meeting on Social Inclusion (9 November 2007)
UNDP Reports
Sub-regional MDG and Social Inclusion Report for CEE, 2004
NHDR Croatia 2006, Unplugged: Faces of Social Exclusion in Croatia
Poverty, Unemployment and Social Exclusion, Croatia, 2006
NHDR BiH 2007, Social Inclusion in BiH
Useful reference materials and experience on social exclusion measurements
Indicators
Study tour on measurements in Poland - info note, 2008
Study tour on measurements in Poland - full report, 2008

Social Exclusion and Integration in Poland: Indicators-Based Approach, Poland, 2006
People-centred Analyses, Macedonia, 2008

Checklist for social inclusion policy indicators (economic development, health, education, social protection and public administration) based on the Rights-based Municipal Development Programme (RMAP) in BiH, 2007 (contact Susanne Milcher for further information)

Quantitative approach
Concept note on the "quality of life survey", 2007 (contact Susanne Milcher for further information)
Quality of Life report (general population), Croatia, 2006
Quality of Life report (social welfare service providers), Croatia, 2006
Regional Disparities report, Croatia, 2008 (forthcoming)
Qualitative approach (contact Susanne Milcher for further information)
Concept note on a qualitative approach to social inclusion measurements, 2007
Questionnaires and results of the Focus Group Approach and pilot in Lopare and Gorazde by the UNDP BiH RMAP team, 2007
Questionnaires of the Focus Groups and in-depth interviews with People living with HIV/Aids, BRC, 2007
Ethnic data collection
Quantitative indicators for monitoring inclusion: ethnic data, 2007 (contact Susanne Milcher for further information)
Collection of Data Related to “Ethnic” Categories in Order to Meet the Needs of Anti Poverty and Anti-Discrimination Policies, Slovakia, 2008 (forthcoming)
EC, European handbook on equality data
Useful websites
UNDP Dimensions of Vulnerability Website
MDGs and Social Inclusion
European Commission, DG Employment and Social Affairs, Social Inclusion
Readings
DFID, 2005, Reducing Poverty by Tackling Social Exclusion, Policy Paper
DFID, 2005, DFID Social Exclusion Review (contact Susanne Milcher for further information)
EC, 2005, Report on social inclusion 2005 by 10 new member states
EC, 2007, Joint Report on Social Protection and Social Inclusion
Naila Kabeer, Social Exclusion, Concepts, Findings and Implications for the MDGs
ODI, Public Policy Responses to Social Exclusion