Training trainers: Workshop for training data collectors begins

Workshop specifically designed to benefit the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) and PPAF.

DERA GHAZI KHAN: The Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) is initiating a two-day workshop for National Poverty Targeting Survey trainers using a ‘poverty scorecard tool’ developed by the World Bank.

The workshop has been specifically designed to benefit the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) and PPAF has arranged for 30 supervisory staff including supervisors, forward campaigners and editors in the first batch to be trained. After the completion of the field team training course, a data collection exercise will be initiated in the district.  A total of 30 field teams comprising 390 survey staff members will be deployed to conduct surveys in the Dera Ghazi Khan district. PPAF has already started pre-launch activities and has completed most of its survey planning which included important components of recruitment and training survey field teams, logistic arrangements, local level public information campaigns, enumeration of poverty scorecards, monitoring and evaluation. The door-to-door survey will start on the heels of the training course by the end of December.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 22^nd, 2010.