Poverty Impact Assessment Seminar

Thursday, 20 October 2005

Wynn’s Hotel Dublin

35-39 Lower Abbey Street

Dublin 1

The Office for Social Inclusion, situated in the Department of Social and Family Affairs, has overall responsibility for developing and driving implementation of the National Action Plan against poverty and social exclusion. One of the functions of the Office is to revise the current poverty proofing guidelines. Poverty proofing was introduced in 1998 as a result of a commitment in the first National Anti-Poverty Strategy and is the process whereby Government policies and programmes are assessed at design and implementation stages in relation to their impact on poverty and on inequalities which are likely to lead to poverty, with a view to poverty reduction.

The existing guidelines were produced in 1999 to assist Government Departments in carrying out poverty proofing exercises. The guidelines were reviewed by the National Economic and Social Council (NESC) in 2001. The review, which took account of the experience of operating poverty proofing, made a number of recommendations to strengthen the proofing process.

The Office for Social Inclusion has now drafted a revised set of guidelines for what will in future be termed Poverty Impact Assessment. The change of name is intended to make clear that the emphasis in the process should be on outcomes.

The revised guidelines are based on the NESC recommendations and on the results of a process of consultation with users of the guidelines and with other relevant stakeholders.

The purpose of this seminar is to present the new draft guidelines and to discuss them with stakeholders as part of an ongoing consultation process.

As well as the presentation of the poverty proofing review and the draft guidelines the seminar will feature speakers from the following organisations whose work on various proofing processes has relevance to the work on poverty proofing

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Seminar details

Draft guidelines

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