The Palestinian Participatory Poverty Assessment: national report: the poor speak out ...
The determination of poverty characteristics and distribution in the West Bank and Gaza Strip is of paramount importance in formulating policies aiming at poverty reduction. This guide presents a briefing on the Palestinian Participatory Poverty Assessment project undertaken in the year 2000. It was initiated to address criticisms levelled against the traditional form of assessment, the poverty line, and to allow for broader poverty assessment which focuses on the viewpoints of the poor and stimulates policy changes.