Polish Poverty Watch 2020 Overview Ryszard Szarfenberg EAPN
Polish Poverty Watch 2020 Overview Ryszard Szarfenberg EAPN Poland ATD Poland EUISG Webinar Exchange: 24 September 2020 Poverty Watches in context of COVID-19 – findings and action
Quantitative evidence: EUROSTAT Europe 2020 target, AROPE with components, social and material deprivation, in-work poverty; STATISTICS POLAND – absolute and relative poverty (expenditures), social exclusion (below social minimum) Qualitative evidence in the context of multidimensional poverty and Covid impact: PEP questionaire ATD original model Title page of the Poverty Watch 2020 with contents
We gather PEP experiences by simple three pages questionnaire with open questions distributed by WRZOS (our host organization), ATD Poland (member of EAPN Poland) and others EAPN Poland members We cited PEP saying about their lives in two tables: • multidimensionality of their lives (work, income, meeting needs, contacts with institutions, contacts with society, self perception of the control over own life and emotions) • their lives during pandemic lockdown
Our short-term proposals Headlines from the Summary od PW 2020 SUCCESS IN EXCEEDING AN UNAMBITIOUS TARGET EXTREME AND RELATIVE POVERTY IN 2019 IS FALLING AGAIN, BUT OVER 15 MILLION POLES ARE STILL SOCIALLY EXCLUDED THE COVID-19 EPIDEMIC INCREASED POVERTY SOCIAL BENEFITS NEW AND OLD, BUT STILL NOT INDEXED SUPPORT FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES - NEW BENEFIT WHICH EXCLUDES FROM IN-KIND ASSISTANCE Our long-term proposals for antipoverty strategic framework required by thematic conditonality for EFS+ Targets WE NEED A STRATEGY TO DEVELOP SOCIAL SERVICES AGAINST POVERTY And the list of challenges for social and public services based on EPSR
PEP participation Two PEP meetings on Covid impact on their lives organised under • the project implemented by WRZOS (reference groups) Short questionaire for PEP • the EAPN Poland process of preparation PEP to the next Bussells • indvividual responses Meeting • two Focus groups organized by ATD Poland What we plan to do with PW 2020 To have a report also in print 16 X presentation of the report at a special event (with TT online), where prizes will be awarded to journalists writing about poverty 16 X-17 X article in one of the Polish top popular newspapers (Dziennik Gazeta Prawna) Other dissemination channels of the report • Polish social ministry • EC representative in Poland • Social media channels (FB, TT) • Press note to journalists from our database
Lessons learned and future challenges 1. Better organisation of the report, e. g. how to combine European with national perspective and indicators, how to combine shortterm concrete proposals with long-term perspective 2. Better coordination between PEP meetings and their proposals with the process of drafting the report 3. Questionnaire based on multidimensional poverty for PEP should be streamlined and there is a need for interviewers 4. PEP focus groups discussing questionnaire may be promising practice to continue
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