SAKSS. Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System. Poverty targeting tool. Beta2 version. Linking people and information for pro-poor Development in Africa.

Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System in sub-Saharan Africa (SAKSS) is currently a CGIAR centre-wide initiative that is helping to develop and set up knowledge and information management system for rural Development strategies in Africa. It is a direct response to the demands of African and international Development partners for better evidence-based dialogue in the planning and monitoring of investment and policy reform strategies designed to contribute to the millennium Development goals of halving hunger and poverty by 2015. SAKSS overall goal is to empower African policy makers and researchers to own the Development agenda of their countries and regions by allowing equal access to information and knowledge by all stakeholders. This CD is a practical tool, aimed at those interested in the huge, ever-changing picture of poverty in Africa. It allows access to and visualization of a wide array of number-based information. It also includes a selection of high-quality poverty related articles. A wide variety of entry-points is provided for a multitude of different users like analysts, researchers and students, Development practitioners and donors. The CD includes different measures of poverty for various years, from health-based measures (e.g. % of population that is undernourished) to income/consumption-based measures (e.g. % of population below the poverty line). These data come from multiple sources, and are available at different resolutions and at different scales (i.e. continental, region, country, district, sub-district). For Africa, the various poverty and hunger measures made available are at the country-level. By entering E-GIS from a page one can.). The CD enables to choose a map from the drop down menu, to E-GIS and find out about poverty in Africa and access GIS maps and tables relating to Africa; to select a moving question which includes What is poverty? How can I participate? How poor are the poor? What are the MDGs? Where are the hungry? Where are the poor? How many poor are there? Where does food come from? and it also enables to enter the library from a text button . The CD is presented into four languages, Amharic, English, French and Swahili.