Organizations Civilians announced Consortium To measure poverty And evaluate The results of exposure dE Social programs and politics V Mexicoto disappearance National Council for assessing the social development policy (KONVAL)
He Consortium for measuring and evidence consists of Research Institute of Equality (Equality), from Iberro -American Mexican University (Iberro); Together with organizations Mexico evaluates how we are going? Research Center “Espinosa Yglesias’ And Mexican Institute of Competitiveness and Civil actions against PovertyField
The initiative seeks to independently control the measurement of poverty and evaluation Social policy belonging Mexico governmentAfter the recent disappearance of Coneval, the autonomous body, which has been performed by these functions since 2014, which will now assume the National Institute for Statistics and Geography (InEGI).
Graciel Teruel, The researcher in Ebero Equide, he presented at the press conference that the purpose of the consortium is to strengthen the “legitimacy of data” and expand the prospects for “improving public decisions,” he said.
What we are looking for is double: first, make sure that the dimension of poverty remains reproducible, transparent and technically solid. And secondly, to promote a serious and constant assessment of social policy using new tools, innovative methodologies and interdisciplinary prospects, ”Teruel said.
He also emphasized that the disappearance of the convalal “represents a huge institutional loss”, since “his technical capabilities, his independence and the role of the counterweight in the measurement of poverty and the assessment of social programs were fundamental to ensure that the decisions of state policy were adopted on the basis of strict data, and not in political calculations.”
Fernanda GarciaThe director of the company (IMCO) emphasized the importance of “evidence remains the axis of measuring state policy” to “guarantee social rights and the impact on social policy on the stability of public finances.”
Today, social policy requires accuracy, and, therefore, severity and transparency are indispensable principles, ”he said.
For your part, rLoers GomezalioThe executive president of civil action against poverty explained that one of the first actions of the consortium would be to submit an independent analysis of the national survey of income and expenses on the household (EnigH) ineGi, which is close to the publication.
This “with the aim of a thorough understanding of the economic and social dynamics of Mexican households, as well as the evolution of shortcomings and multidimensional poverty in the country,” he said.
“From each organization we will perform our own analysis as the implementation of complementarity of both civil and academic monitoring, with the intention of providing additional supplies for public debate and developing social policy. This exercise seeks to strengthen trust in the official results that arise, ”he added when a collective statement was read.
With information EFE
