Moreover, the poverty rate and the number of people living in extreme poverty fell in every developing region for the first time since poverty monitoring began, and the proportion of people not having access to improved water sources was cut in half from the 1990 level.
In its annual poverty monitoring report published last week, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) laid out the extent to which poverty is not just a consequence of unemployment, finding that two-thirds of people who found work in the past year had taken jobs for less than the living wage.
Year: 2008 Major Area: Policy Advocacy and Partnerships Language: English Summary Launched in 2001, the Tanzania Socio-Economic Database (TSED) has been at the heart of the poverty monitoring system in Tanzania, providing a tool for storage and dissemination of quantitative information generated by the poverty monitoring system.
"In places where there is high level of infant mortality and poverty, we monitored the highest level of elephant poaching … so addressing poverty is a significant component of elephant conservation".
This survey is undertaken by the national office of statistics on a quarterly basis to assess living standards and monitor poverty, and for other statistical purposes.
Significant effort has been invested to ensure that TSED becomes a tool for disseminating national data that can be used to monitor poverty reduction efforts.
The UNICEF Deputy Representative, Dr. Jane Muita, speaking at the launch of the Atlas, highlighted the importance of consistently collecting and analyzing data to monitor poverty particularly that related to children.
For more information, go to www.devinfo.org Progress and results Since 2001, TSED has become a nationally used database and tool for compiling and disseminating quantitative information which can be used to monitor poverty reduction efforts.
The Nairobi Urban Health and Demographic Surveillance System (NUHDSS) was set up to provide a platform to investigate the inter-linkages between urban poverty and health; monitor and evaluate intervention programs implemented within the study communities and provide a sampling frame for nested studies.
Three striking trends stand out from the annual state-of-the-nation report Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion, commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF).
But not only has progress been slower than expected, as this week's Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion report shows, it has now ground to a halt.
