TAMIL NADU PUDHU VAAZHVU PROJECT

(A World Bank Funded Empowerment and Poverty Reduction Project)

Department of Rural Development & Panchayat RajDepartment of Rural Development & Panchayat Raj

Government of Tamil Nadu

What is PIP ?

• Participatory Identification of Poor is a

process that will help us to understand the

socio-economic conditions of the peoplesocio-economic conditions of the people

living in a village,

• Identify the very poor and poor households,

disabled and vulnerable people in an area

using participatory methodology.

Why PIP ?

• Identifying the Target persons.

• Rapport building

• Enhanced understanding on Poverty of the• Enhanced understanding on Poverty of the

village

• Speeds up formation of CBOs like VPRC, SAC

Livelihood Groups,

• Potential Livelihood activities

Why Participatory method ?

• It is transparent process

• The Level of involvement of

the community is very highthe community is very high

• The center of decision-

making process by the

Community

Steps of PIP Process

1. Information to the community

2. Selection of PIP Team

3. Training to PIP Team3. Training to PIP Team

4. Village level meeting

5. Transect Walk

6. Social Mapping

Steps in Participatory Identification of Poor

7. Well- Being analysis

8. Triangulation

9. Documentation of Data

10. Displaying the Target list

11.Approval in Grama Sabha

1. Information to the community

• Communication campaign organized by the panchayat

• Information on the significance of PIP

• Importance of participation

2. Selection of PIP Team

• Through meetings in each habitation

• Teammembers should reside in village.

• She/he should know their village well,• She/he should know their village well,

should be articulate, assertive and should

act impartially.

3. Training to PIP Team

• Two days training to the PIP teammembers

to understand the significance of the PIP

process.process.

targeting the poor and very poor and the

vulnerable,

• Methods and procedures of PIP process.

• Mock PIP session

4. Village level Meeting

a) Defining the area for PIP

b) Identifying a place for holding the PIPb) Identifying a place for holding the PIP

c) Finalizing data and time

d) Other arrangements like sound and

lighting arrangements

Information to be collected

Each of the household given a number, will beassigned a card.

1.PIP Household Number with coding forhabitation

2. Type of House 2. Type of House

3. Owned or rented

4. Name of the wife/husband

5. No. of family members with age and educational qualification

6. Number of earning members and their occupation and annual income

Information to be collected

7. Number of school going children

8. Disabled persons, if any and the type of disability

9. SC/ST/BC/OBC families

10. Widowed women without social support

11. Deserted wives without social support 11. Deserted wives without social support

12. Destitute without means for living

13. Orphaned children

14. Persons with HIV positive and AIDS

15. Transgender

16. Persons with chronic illness unable to take up physical labour.

17. Is a member of the family in a SHG? if yes name the SHG

6. Transect Walk

• The PIP team along with Community and Project

Facilitation Team will explore the whole village on foot.

• The team will try to observe and get to know the

surroundings such as the types of houses, resources, surroundings such as the types of houses, resources,

traditions, the village condition- geographical, social,

economic, livelihood, etc.

• Documenting an above all while this walk

• The team will also invite the villagers to come to the

mapping / discussion during the transect walk.

7. Social Mapping• Social map helps us to have acomplete picture of the village in asmall area.

• Mapping exercise providesinformation not only about theinformation not only about thespatial distribution of thecommunity, but also reveals muchabout the socio-economicconditions and the dynamicswithin the village.

Social map cont….

• The village map can be drawn by group of villagers on

the ground using rangoli powder / chalk.

• Then volunteers will come forward and draw the

village map. village map.

• Roads and common properties such as gram

panchayat office, post office, School, etc which will be

easily located and drawn by the people will be drawn

first

• Houses are drawn next.

8. Well-Being analysis

The Well-Being analysis needs to be done

in focus group.

• The community will then segregate the families in the

village into very poor, poor, middle and highvillage into very poor, poor, middle and high

categories.

• The criteria for categorizing the people in the village

will be decided by the people themselves.

• There will be broad criteria which will be the guiding

factor.

9. Triangulation

• Well being analysis exercise will be repeated

in second focus group discussion.

• The PIP team will compare the results of the

first group

• In case of discrepancy those cards with

unclear categorization alone will be selected

and the exercise will be repeated with the

third group.

Criteria adopted for Identification of target poor

1) Senior citizens, Widows, deserted women with meager subsistence income and without social support,

2) Orphaned children and child labourers

3) Poor nomadic communities3) Poor nomadic communities

4) HIV positive persons

5)Transsexual living without social support

6) Persons with chronic illness which disable them from taking up physical labour.

7)Any other marginalized individuals defined by community.

10. Documentation

• All information collected during the PIP process has to be neatly documented including photos documented including photos where possible.

• Social mapping should be drawn

in the charts

• Individual PIP cards must be

collected from the village persons

11. Displaying Target List

The PIP list will consistnames of

1.Very poor families,

2.Poor Families,

3.Disabled, ( This will be tentative list and will be finalized only when medically certified)

4.Vulnerable persons (only from the Very Poor families)

12. Approval of Gram Sabha

The list of very poor, poor,

vulnerable and disabled

identified through theidentified through the

Participatory Identification

of poor will be read during

the Gramasabha and to be

get approval.

Participatory Identification of Poor Participatory Identification of Poor

process short film

Doubts and clarification

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