About Us
The Chronic Poverty Advisory Network (CPAN) is a network of researchers, policy makers and practitioners across 17 low- and middle-income countries focused on tackling chronic poverty and getting to zero extreme poverty and deprivation. CPAN is a programme hosted at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in Brighton.
CPAN works to draw attention to the needs and interests of chronically poor people, and what can be done by and for them, reflecting the Leave No One Behind (LNOB) principle of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Our projects are aimed at creating high-quality evidence-based research, at providing policy advice, carrying out policy monitoring, and driving policy-focused dissemination and engagement at the national and international levels.
A Quantitative and Qualitative Life Course Analysis
CPAN’s approach combines analysis of Panel Data with qualitative Life Histories. Panel Data, or household surveys, are our main source of data. They help investigating the extent of different poverty trajectories; how many people escape poverty, how many remain trapped in it and how many fall into poverty. Life Histories are in-depth interviews which explore the key events and moments during an individual’s life that contribute to improve their situation, getting worse or stagnating. While panel data provides important information on the proportions of people on different poverty trajectories, qualitative data is needed to explore further why some households are successfully improving their situation while others are not.
CPAN work-streams
Sahel Food Crisis - Food distribution in Chad
Photo : Abbie Trayler-Smith/Oxfam
Poverty Dynamics
CPAN research investigates the dynamics and drivers of poverty dynamics to understand how pathways for sustained poverty escape differ and what countries need to do to enhance the escape from and reduce the incidence of transitory escapes.
Cash-for-work and disaster risk reduction in Niger
Photo: Fatoumata Diabate/Oxfam
Pro-Poorest Economic Growth
CPAN provides the knowledge needed to develop and implement measures that will ensure that the poorest people are included in economic growth. It also works on stimulating national and international debates about including the poorest in growth.
Fatimata Djenebou, refugee from Mali
Photo: Pablo Tosco/Oxfam
Governance and Social Inclusion
What’s the role of good governance in reducing poverty? What are the key features of social inclusion programmes that allow poor people to escape from poverty ? CPAN research on the role of social protection and governance in preventing impoverishment.
A woman in rural Ethiopia
Photo: Chiara Mariotti/CPAN
Climate Change
There is a little understanding of the links between climate change and poverty dynamics. CPAN is currently working on on exploring these links and to propose measures aimed at limiting the negative impact of climate change on the poorest communities and households
CPAN Products
In addition to research, CPAN also monitors key national policies to help eradicate poverty, and to foster policy change at the national and international levels
The Poverty Eradication Preparedness Index (PEPPI)
CPAN is developing an index to evaluate key policies to help eradicate poverty in 31 countries with more than 5 million extremely poor people in 2011. The goal is to contribute to national and international discussions regarding priority actions and practical first steps to ensure that no one gets excluded from progress toward zero poverty.
Chronic Poverty Coalitions
CPAN aims to build structured policy advocacy actions at the national level in developing countries to bridge research, policy and programme design and implementation with the policy making process to influence policy makers and ensure that the poorest are at the centre of any poverty eradication policy plan.
CPAN responsive work
CPAN offers responsive and consultancy work for donors’ agencies and philanthropists who want to re-shape or inform their funding strategies and planning (e.g. UN agencies, USAID, SIDA, IKEA Foundation).
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The Chronic Poverty Advisory Network is hosted at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in Brighton, UK.
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