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REGIONAL DISPARITY ASSESSMENT

REGIONAL DISPARITY ASSESSMENT. United Nations Development Programme Bosnia and Herzegovina. Regional Disparity Assessment Context. Significant progress has been made in B iH over the past years: Stability, despite occasional political disagreement

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REGIONAL DISPARITY ASSESSMENT

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  1. REGIONAL DISPARITY ASSESSMENT United Nations Development Programme Bosnia and Herzegovina

  2. Regional Disparity Assessment Context • Significant progress has been made in BiH over the past years: • Stability, despite occasional political disagreement • Constant high GDP up until the recent global economic crisis • Banking system one of the best in Southeast Europe • Inflation in the single digits • Problems nonetheless do exist: • Common, such as lack of efficiency of the institutions in creating a positive business environment • Specific, such as return and its impact on poverty rate

  3. Regional Disparity Assessment Context • Evident differences in the quality of livelihoods, high & unequally distributed unemployment of particular interest for UNDP. • Understanding disparities in order to enable the targeting of policies and activities at those areas where they are most needed. • No study focused on the regional disparities in the country as a whole has been produced to date in BiH in one place.

  4. Regional Disparity Assessment Regions and Indicators • Disparities between 17 regions (10 cantons in FBiH, 6 statistical territorial units in RS and Brcko District) and 142 municipalities in BiH • Original or adjusted LAEKEN indicators + UNDP specifics • Out of available 43 set of indicators, 19 extrapolated as common for all regions and 5 for all municipalities • Calculation with BiH value as 100

  5. Regional Disparity Assessment Indicators

  6. Regional Disparity Assessment Sources • Labour Force Survey 2008 (9,261 households) • Household Budget Survey 2007 (7,468 Households) • Other publications produced by entity and state agencies for statistics • UNDP documents (Early Warning System) • World Bank publication • Eurostat

  7. Regional Disparity Assessment How to Present Findings • Seven Chapters: • Demography, • Education, Access to Utilities (Electricity, Water and Sewage), • Quality of Life, • Standard of Living, • Transport Infrastructure and Health Employment, • Economic Disparity, Income and Poverty, • Social Inclusion and Vulnerable Groups • Executive Summary with the disparities on the basis of the extrapolated indicators.

  8. Regional Disparity Assessment Results • Classification of regions from the most to the least developed. • Classification of municipalities on sufficiently developed, underdeveloped and extremely underdeveloped. • Identification of overall deficiencies (e.g. sewage infrastructure, number of doctors, low education among unemployed – app. 94% with no more than secondary school) • Identification of extent to which these problems are present in specific regions (e.g. Posavina with 62.4% of unemployed with primary school)

  9. Local Development Programme Results • 49% of municipalities, mostly rural, underdeveloped or extremely underdeveloped, many of them small and self-unsustainable. • Poverty from 5.2% to 37% (average 18.6%) • Poverty Gap from 18.8% to 39.4% (average 26.2%) • Unemployment Rate (ILO standards) from 14.7% to 38.8% (average 23.4%) • Widening gap between urban and rural areas

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  13. Regional Disparity Assessment UNDP Strategy • 4-year programme (2011-2014) designed to assist local authorities and businesses to tap development potentials. • Programme pursues a multi-dimensional approach to tackle obstacles to development challenges from multiple angles: governance, SME development, energy and environment, social inclusion and government absorption capacities • To be implemented through a regional approach and five regional offices with the focus at the underdeveloped and extremely underdeveloped municipalities.

  14. Regional Disparity Assessment Final Conclusion • RDA is a preliminary assessment aimed at initiating a process that might lead to the production of a more comprehensive assessment of the regional disparities in BiH.

  15. Regional Disparity Assessment Contact: Nedim Catovic, Programme Analyst, Rural and Regional Development Cluster, UNDPBiH, Email: ncatovic@undp.ba

  16. THANK YOU!

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