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<div class="gmail_quote">-<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Maria Hamlin Zuniga</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:maria@mundonica.com">maria@mundonica.com</a>></span><br>from<<a href="mailto:intl-budget@lists.cbpp.org">intl-budget@lists.cbpp.org</a>><br>
<br><br>Dear Colleagues:<br><br>As you can see from the letter below, Sanjeev Khagram, the Wyss Visiting<br>Scholar at the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Program, has<br>been selected by the UN Secretary General to be the lead writer on a<br>
comprehensive report on the impact the global financial crisis on the<br>poor and most vulnerable around the world. This report was requested by<br>the G20 and will provide the only in-depth examination of the crisis<br>specifically from the perspective of the poor. In order to produce a<br>
report that is comprehensive and meaningful, Sanjeev needs to compile<br>the necessary data, case studies, and relevant analyses. And, as the<br>report is to be launched in September 2009, he needs to gather this<br>information as quickly as possible.<br>
<br>Sanjeev, who is known worldwide for his interdisciplinary and<br>cross-sectoral work bridging theory and practice, is asking for those<br>involved in our work, who may have access to data, studies and stories,<br>and other information on the impacts of the financial crisis on the poor<br>
to get in touch with him at <a href="mailto:skhagram@gan-net.net">skhagram@gan-net.net</a> <font color="#ff0000">[this is the address to respond to]</font>as soon as possible.<br>This will be a very valuable report to have available to support our<br>
work to advocate for the poor.<br><br>Thank you for any assistance you can provide.<br>xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<br><br>Dear Friends,<br><br>I am now the lead writer for the flagship report on the impact of the<br>global financial crisis on the most vulnerable that the G20 Leaders have<br>
asked the UN SG to assemble for them. Please see the attached two<br>documents on the more specific TOR and the second on the larger GIVAS<br>(global impacts vulnerability assessment system) that is being built so<br>that there is a real-time meta-database of databases for ongoing<br>
monitoring of impacts of global crises on the poor.<br><br>The flagship report will be launched in September, 2009 by the Secretary<br>General. So as always, the time is short and the data is incredibly<br>patchy and limited...I have access to virtually all the published and<br>
grey literature at all the major agencies of the UN, IMF, ILO, World<br>Bank, etc. etc.<br>However, I am reaching out to you to see if you - or through your<br>networks - there are any other data sets, case studies, or rigorous<br>
analyses of the impacts on the poor (and the causal mechanisms through<br>which these impacts are occurring), as well as potential<br>innovative/experimental responses that should be highlighted in the<br>report. ALSO CRITICAL IS THE VOICES AND EXPERIENCES OF THE POOR AND<br>
VULNERABLE IN THEIR OWN WORDS...<br><br>Any broader thoughts on what the main messages of the report should be<br>would also be welcome. Below is a broad outline of the main<br>elements/broad outline of the report.<br><br>
I would deeply appreciate any information, data, expertize and wisdom<br>you might be able to offer. In the meantime, I remain, sincerely yours,<br><br>Sanjeev<br><br>This REPORTwould start with the “voices of the poor” and thus would<br>
immediately be starkly different from other reports on the global<br>financial crisis. It would then move to household and other types of<br>disaggregated data and analysis and then end with more macro-level data,<br>trends and patterns …ending with key messages and take aways. In essence<br>
we are flipping the typical approach to keep the “focus on the poor and<br>most vulnerable.”<br><br>SIGNAL MAIN MESSAGES UP FRONT<br><br>1. Voices of the Poor – 1/2 page with personal testimonies (A BOX ON<br>perception data from the poor and most vulnerable)<br>
<br>2. A box simply describing a dimensions of poverty and vulnerability<br>analytic framework (poverty and vulnerability is not unidimensional,<br>etc. etc.). – HAZARDS, IMPACTS, RESILIENCE<br><br>3. Vignettes of poverty, vulnerability, and coping – 3-5 case stories<br>
that would show effects across dimensions of vulnerability and<br>RE-introduce informally key messages – ideally these would give a sense<br>of the “timelines of impacts” and “<br><br>4. Disaggregated (dimensions of) impact and vulnerability – household<br>
or local-community level or similar types of data that would build on<br>the case stories. – table on categories and dimensions…<br><br>5. Aggregated dimensions of impact and vulnerability analysis – moving<br>more up to cross-country and cross-regional trends focusing on<br>
macro-economic transmission<br><br>channels…again building on the case studies and directing towards the<br>key messages<br><br>(Box synthesizing work on impacts of previous financial crises?)<br><br>6. Conclusions and implications – take away key messages about global<br>
financial crisis impacts on poor to date, valued added by this type of<br>report, critical need for GIVAS<br><br>(box on new data gathering and monitoring systems…) – BEFORE AND AFTER<br>GIVAS…<br><br>7. 9 CEP Initiatives – Interventions work<br>
<br>novel insights/multiple types of data<br><br><br>This REPORT will FOCUS on and highlight more sharply:<br><br>§ who has been most affected and who has been (or will be) least able<br>to cope;<br><br>initially most affected who were originally less vulnerable – export<br>
sectors…<br><br>§ Identify newly emerging (and unexpected) vulnerabilities where these<br>exist;<br><br>urban working poor, migrants, informal employment<br><br>§ how vulnerable communities and populations have been affected (above<br>
and beyond their “existing vulnerabilities”) by the economic crisis over<br>the past twelve months;<br><br>§ how (and how quickly) global events translate into local impacts and<br>shifting vulnerabilities; this could include a “timeline of impact”;<br>
(drops have been dramatic on gdp/capita and employment – much longer to<br>recover …)<br><br>§ Explain the overlay and compounding effects of past and current<br>global crises (economic, food, fuel, etc.); and<br><br>§ how economic stress factors could translate into increased social,<br>
political and even environmental vulnerabilities;<br><br>§ Assist decision-makers in understanding the complex interplay of<br>multiple stress factors in the lives of vulnerable communities;<br><br>§ how communities have tried to cope with the crisis’ first wave of<br>
repercussions;<br><br>§ Provide decision-makers with a watch list of issues that need to be<br>urgently addressed to prevent graver consequences in the future.<br><font color="#888888"><br><br>--</font></div>