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By Mamadou Mohamed TOURE
Responsable Suivi-Evaluation PAPAM/ASAP Mali

How to use MPAT - infographic from IFAD.
Au Kenya du 25 au 30 avril 2015, j’ai participé à la neuvième Conférence Internationale des Communautés Basée sur l’Adaptation aux Changement Climatique (CBA9). C’est une conférence qui rassemble  habituellement différentes organisations locales, nationales et internationales, ONG, des universités,  des centres de recherche et la société civile, pour partage d’expériences et t perspectives sur l’Adaptation des Communautés aux Changement Climatique (CBA). La Conference de cette année a été organisée par entre autres par l’International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) et le Gouvernement du Kenya et a eu lieu à Nairobi.

Le Thème de cette année est le Suivi et Evaluation  de l’Adaptation Efficace, qui touche aux thèmes suivants :

Suivi et apprentissage sur l'efficacité de l'adaptation à différentes échelles: des communautés aux niveaux sous-national, national et global ;
Question de genre et groupes vulnérables ;
Exploitation de la variabilité  climatique pour faciliter l'adaptation dans les zones arides ;

Principes et options radicales d'adaptation - des questions pour en évaluer l'efficacité ;
Suivi et mise à l'échelle des pratiques de l'agriculture intelligente face au climat visant à améliorer la sécurité alimentaire et l'adaptation ;

Evaluation basée sur les écosystèmes pour l'adaptation efficace ;
Evaluation des pertes et dommages ;
Outils et techniques de mesure efficace pour l'adaptation et la résilience ;
Les connaissances autochtones sur l’adaptation ,

La conférence s’est déroulée à travers  des présentations des expériences en plénière et des  travaux de groupe. Le système de suivi-évaluation des gouvernements dans le processus de CBA a été largement discuté et les conclusions tirées sont axées sur l’importance de la bonne gouvernance, le renforcement des capacités et surtout la coordination des actions CBA dans les pays.

Des bailleurs de fonds comme la  Banque Africaine de développement ont réitéré leur entière disponibilité d’appui financier en faveur de l’Adaptation aux Changement Climatique.
Mr. Mamadou Mohamed Touré - Responsable Suivi-Evaluation
PAPAM/ASAP Mali presenting MPAT at CBA 9
©IFAD/E. Morras Dimas

Pendant cette conférence, Marie Chanoine du FIDA Rwanda et moi-même avons fait des exposés sur certaines initiatives du FIDA visant à mieux mesurer l'adaptation aux changements climatiques.

Plus spécifiquement, j’ai présenté The Multidimensional Poverty Assessment Tool – MPAT , littéralement traduit en français comme l’outil d’évaluation multidimensionnelle de la pauvreté. MPAT est une initiative qui a été mise au point par le personnel du FIDA afin de simplifier le défi complexe qui consiste à mesurer la pauvreté et l’impact des interventions visant à la réduire  au niveau des ménages et du village.

MPAT a été aussi adapté pour mesurer les progrès accomplis sur la résilience  climatique dans des projets qui intègrent le financement climat. Avec cet objectif,, une  composante supplémentaire sur les changements climatiques et l'adaptation a été ajoutée à l'outil MPAT et a été  testée dans le premier trimestre de 2015 dans le cadre du  projet PAPAM / ASAP  au Mali.

La mise en œuvre de l’enquête MPAT dans la zone d’intervention du volet ASAP du PAPAM s’est déroulée dans la période  début février à début Avril 2015. L’approche méthodologique a concerné  les étapes suivantes :

  • formation des formateurs au sein du PAPAM et celle des agents chargés  de la saisie des données ;
  • la formation des enquêteurs et des superviseurs d’enquêteurs ;
  • Le test des questionnaires sur terrain ;
  • l’échantillonnage ;
  • la collecte des données sur le terrain ;
  • la saisie des données ;
  • l’analyse des résultats et la production du rapport.

Cette enquête s’est déroulée dans deux régions du Mali (Kayes et Sikasso), six cercles (Bougouni, Sikasso, Yanfoîla, Kita, Keniébaet Bafoulabé) et 17 communes.
Sur la base des   résultats de l’application de MPAT au Mali, il est prévu de l’utiliser  dans d’autres  projets financés par le FIDA

Des nombreux acteurs ont manifesté leur intérêt vers l’outil MPAT  et ont demandé le résumé des thèmes exposés, les posters du FIDA et le rapport final du MPAT Mali pour pouvoir le reproduire dans leurs pays respectifs, notamment au Rwanda et au Vietnam.

Mon impression, est que cette Conférence Internationale ait réellement permis aux différents acteurs gouvernementaux et non gouvernementaux de partager leurs expériences en matière d’évaluation et l’amélioration efficace de l’Adaptation. La conférence a été une grande opportunité pour le FIDA de faire connaître d’avantage ses expertises et expériences en matière d’évaluation et d’amélioration de l’Adaptation aux Changement climatique.

La prochaine conférence est prévue pour 2016 au Bangladesh et on imagine le FIDA y jouer encore une fois un  rôle important

Assess to Address: let #IFADMPAT take a clear picture for you

Posted by Roxanna Samii Thursday, April 3, 2014 1 comments


by Valeria Smarrini

Let's say you are concerned with rural poverty alleviation. Maybe you are a government official, or you are doing research, or you just had a brilliant idea and you want to design a project. Maybe your project is already up and running, and you want to be sure it is working properly. Maybe you work in IFAD: in this case, rural poverty is something you are certainly very familiar with.

Options on how to tackle rural development are copious. To make things even more exciting, the whole background of development cooperation is entering a brand new era, as post-2015 is fast approaching and different scenarios are emerging, which focus on different actors, responsibilities, and targets at all levels of ambition.

The thing about rural poverty is that, very often, it just plain complicated. It involves many dimensions, and each and every one of them is very deeply connected to all the others. Look at this from the outside: you pull a thread somewhere and, if you don't really know what you are doing, maybe this will cause some other part of the structure to collapse. Knowing that, you don't really want to experiment when it comes to people's livelihoods.

Let's not be discouraged, though – solutions do exist, and can be found. And this is not a needle-in-a-haystack type of research. What would really be helpful here is a flashlight or, even better, a map.

IFAD happens to have launched a promising tool today, the Multidimensional Poverty Assessment Tool (MPAT), which has been metaphorically described as a 'roadmap', or a 'dashboard' to better grasp the reality and dynamics of rural poverty, right at its origin: rural villages and households.

MPAT was first custom-designed in 2007, and it received feedback from international experts in various sectors of development through several round of fine-tuning. A beta version of the tool was then developed, tested with some further tweaking and training, evaluated from the European Commission, peer-reviewed by the academic community, and piloted.

The tool is really quite simple to operate. You have your survey templates at the household and village level, a fairly straightforward Excel sheet that does the maths when it's fed with raw data from the survey, and aggregate results for ten different components, spanning from basic needs, such as food security, to equality issues like gender. The idea is to see how these ten dimensions are doing and to also check whether an enabling environment is in place.
 
Innovation lies in the fact that the tool is based on the needs and the assets of smallholder farmers, and the dimensions it takes into account are all, undeniably, at the core of the rural development debate.
Actually, MPAT does more: it collects perceptions right in the households and villages where the effort to raise people out of poverty begins and ends.

Perceptions are subjective statements, one may argue? Yes, they are. But subjective sounds a lot more like objective when it comes out of those who are the object of the whole rural development effort. So, information obtained through this exercise may be subject to some degree of simplification, but the proxies can certainly be useful in defining priorities, which is a very honest thing to do when dealing with a complex situation. I will steal the words of Alasdair Cohen, project manager of the IFAD Management Team for 2012-2013 MPAT finalization, and say that this tool allows us to "look at qualitative data through a quantitative lens."

See how MPAT can be used as a flashlight, or a map?

And, by the way, it seems to be working. Feedback was shared during the event from colleagues from the Kenya-based NGO Nuru International and IFAD's ProPESCA project in Mozambique – and it was encouraging feedback in both cases.

I will admit I joined the event asking myself why another tool to deal with impact, and soon found myself asking "why not?". I can definitely see this at work for the development community at large, to draft roadmaps to inform decision-making and resource allocation, develop meaningful indicators, design compelling projects that go straight to the point and, last but definitely not least, claim evidence exactly where evidence is needed.

Want to find out how to assess and address the various dimensions of rural poverty? Interested in knowing how to map rural poverty and measure the impact of rural development projects?

Tune in on 3 April at 3:00pm CET to find out about IFAD’s Multidimensional Poverty Assessment tool (MPAT) - your "rural poverty dashboard".

Our journey to develop this tool for development practitioners was made possible thanks to the Innovation Mainstreaming Initiative (IMI) - a DFID-funded initiative. And we cannot be grateful enough for this generous contribution, as the IMI has allowed us to launch and mainstream numerous groundbreaking and innovative initiatives.

This morning driving to work, it occurred to me that we may be able to link MPAT, is a tool designed to help development practitioners to take a snapshot of rural poverty by collecting people's ideas, with SenseMaking, a methodology that Dave Snowden shared at the Failfaire - another IMI sponsored initiative.

So what does MPAT do? It collects project beneficiary perceptions on the following 10 components. The first six being fundamental needs and the latter four relating to rural assets, exposure and equality:

  • food and nutrition security
  • domestic water supply
  • heath and health care
  • sanitation and hygiene
  • housing, clothing and energy
  • education
  • farm assets
  • non-farm assets
  • exposure and resilience to shocks
  • gender and social equality

If you are into psychology, you can probably find similarities with Maslow's hierarchy of needs?

We at IFAD put PEOPLE at the centre of our work. So if you are an advocate of bottom-up approaches, MPAT is your tool, as it allows you to document people's perspectives both a household and village level and map these out.

You can find out more about this tool on our website. Make sure you follow us live on 3 April at 3pm CET via webcast or on Twitter by following #ifadmpat.

Hope to see many of you virtually and before signing off, check out Thomas Rath's piece on Sustainable rural development needs a roadmap.


You are probably wondering, what does Multidimensional Poverty Assessment (MPA) mean?

The MPA project is a collaborative, international initiative led by IFAD to develop, test and pilot a new rapid appraisal tool for local-level rural poverty assessment. The Multidimensional Poverty Assessment Tool (MPAT) is a project management instrument which measures fundamental dimensions of rural poverty in order to support poverty alleviation efforts in the less-developed world. MPAT provides an overview of the sectors most in need of interventions/assistance at a local-level; thus, there is a strong focus on the fundamental sectors related to human wellbeing. MPAT consists of 10 components:

1. Food & Nutrition Security
2. Domestic Water Supply
3. Health & Healthcare
4. Sanitation & Hygiene
5. Housing, Clothing & Energy
6. Education
7. Farm Assets
8. Non-Farm Assets
9. Exposure & Resilience to Shocks
10. Gender & Social Equality


The MPA Project is primarily funded through an Initiative for Mainstreaming Innovations (IMI) grant from DFID. The IMI provides grants through a competitive process to finance innovative ideas. Our proposal was among many and you can imagine how pleased we were when our proposal was accepted. Keen to get going, we starting our activities in the summer of 2008.

One year down the road, here are some pictures of some of the project’s milestones:

-The MPA Startup Workshop was held in Beijing, on September 24th, 2008,

-The 2nd MPA Workshop was held in New Delhi, on May 15th,

-MPAT has been piloted extensively in Gansu Province (China),

-and Uttarakhand (India).


Thanks to the assistance of IFAD staff and IFAD-supported projects and partners in those areas MPAT has been piloted in well over 500 households and has stimulated a great deal of interest, both among IFAD staff and their government counterparts.


The MPA Wrap-up Workshop is scheduled to be held at IFAD in Rome in September, 2009 –likely preceded or followed by a presentation on the project and MPAT for anyone interested in attending. Once the methodology is finalized, MPA can be used to augment the Baseline, Mid-Term and Completion surveys/evaluations for IFAD projects, or those of other donors and/or governments committed to rural poverty alleviation.


A MPA User's Guide will be published by early 2010 and made available to all online in order to better disseminate this new approach and framework.

For more information please contact:

Mattia Prayer, [email protected]
Thomas Rath, [email protected]
Roxanna Samii, [email protected]
or Alasdair Cohen, [email protected]