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Polish Poverty Watch 2019
               Ryszard Szarfenberg
                  EAPN Poland
                   ATD Poland

           EUISG Webinar Exchange: Tuesday 2 June 10-12
      Developing Poverty Watches 2020 in the COVID-19 Context

Quantitative evidence (poverty and deprivation indicators
                                                                                       Title page of the Poverty Watch 2019 with
mainly based on Polish households budgets data and social and
matrial deprivatin)                                                                    contents

                                                                                                       Contents translated: Summary, general
 Qualitative evidence (quotes from PEP in the framework                                                situation on the labour market and in
 of multidimensional poverty)                                                                          households’ budgets, general trends in
                                                                                                       poverty and social and material, children
                                                                                                       seniors and popele with disabilities,
                                                                                                       experiencing of multidimensional poverty,
                                                                                                       anti-poverty policy and its problems, info
                                                                                                       about EAPN Poland

                                                                http://www.eapn.org.pl/eapn/uploads/2019/10/Poland_Poverty-Watch_2019-ost.pdf
      ATD original model

We gather PEP statements by simple three pages questionnaire
with open questions distributed by ATD Poland (member of
EAPN Poland)

               We cited PEP saying about their lives by
               dimension in the table: work, income,
               meeting needs, contacts with institutions,
               contacts with society, self perception of
               the control over own life and emotions

Presentation of the Poverty Watch
 in the homeless shelter to
 representatives of several nogs and
 homeless youth and older people

https://www.facebook.com/porowskaadriana/posts/251444
7931967962?notif_id=1571351863199645&notif_t=tagged_
with_story

Excerpt from our media note (originally in Polish)

Media impact and
coverage
                          Polish main newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza on
                          their portal and paper issue (17 October)

   https://wyborcza.pl/7,155287,25312392,500-juz-nie-dziala-w-rok-przybylo-400-tys-osob-
   zyjacych-za.html

Popular only internet-based media outlet Oko.press (18 October)

https://oko.press/liczba-polakow-w-skrajnym-ubostwie-wzrosla-o-420-tys-najwyzszy-czas-by-
rzad-zwaloryzowal-swiadczenia/

Other media shared information from the first article in Gazeta Wyborcza (google search findings)

                And some mentions beyond Polish internet

Intervew about the report in
      Polish main news and talk
      radio station Tok FM

https://www.tokfm.pl/Tokfm/7,103085,25320517,500
-plus-traci-swoja-wartosc-mialo-redukowac-ubostwo-
a-ubogich.html

Impact beyond media                  Member of the Parliament asked official question to the
                                     government quoting Poverty Watch (January 2020). It was
                                     answered in February

          http://www.sejm.gov.pl/Sejm9.nsf/InterpelacjaTresc.xsp?key=BKVBPM&view=null

Other activities connected to dissemenation of the
report
• PW 2019 was sent to the European Commission representative in
  Poland
• We presented PW 2019 at EAPN Poland General Assembly, we had
  also EC representative as a guest with his presentation on the
  European Semester after Europe 2020 Strategy (5 December)
• Another presentation was at ATD Poland small workshop
  (15 January)
• ExCo member (Kamila Płowiec) presented PW at 2 regional
  conferences within project implemented by our host organisation
  WRZOS

Our plans for Poverty Watch 2020
• Data gathering (August, September)
   1. Statistics Poland will publish poverty rates based on household budget survey 2019
      soon. We expect the increase of poverty similar to 2018
   2. We should include all information from covid-19 surveys about impoverishment
      and make predictions for 2020 increase in poverty – much more than in 2019
   3. Improved questionnaire for PEP in multidimensional poverty framework
   4. Seeking other sources of PEP experiences e.g. with help of the PEP coordinator and
      our spokesperson (PEP)
• Dissemination of the report and its messages (17 October and after)
   1.   17 October main event with PEP
   2.   Exclusive to one journalist from top media outlet
   3.   Dissemination through our media contacts
   4.   Dissemination through our social media accounts
   5.   Dissemination to our ngo members
   6.   Dissemination to government, social ministry and EU officers

Appendix
Questionnaire with open questions to people
experiencing poverty

Open questions we
                      Intro: 1) information about the respondent (age, gender, education/occupation) and 2) the household
asked to PEP in the   (number of members, their age and gender, changes in the last year)
framework of          1.   What has changed in the employment sphere over the last year (e.g. job change, job search, job
multidimensional           loss, others)? What important has happened in this area?
poverty               2.   What has happened in the last year in the area of household income (work, benefits, social
(distributed and           assistance, other; decreased or increased)? Has the income increased steadily in line with housing
                           costs, energy and product prices? Have debts emerged or gone?
assisted by our
                      3.   Have all the needs of the family/household been met during the last year? Did the income of the
member                     family/household allow for the purchase of all necessary things? What needs were the most difficult
organisation ATD           to meet?
Poland)               4.   Has there been frequent contact with institutions (school, labour office, municipalities, social
                           assistance, medical, courts, etc.) during the last year? Was there more positive or negative
                           experience in contact with institutions? Why?
                      5.   What has changed or remained unchanged in contact with the public over the last year? It concerns
                           both relationships with strangers we meet on a daily basis and indirect contacts through traditional
                           and social media. Have there been any new important acquaintances? Do we feel well treated by
                           strangers we meet on a daily basis? What positive or negative example has been remembered of
                           contacts with people during the year?
                      6.   Do you have the impression that you or your family/household has an influence on your own life
                           and the life of the environment in which it lives - the lives of other people, families, society? Has
                           there sometimes been a feeling of helplessness, lack of an exit from difficulties, overwhelmed by
                           problems, or a feeling of hope and recovery of influence on your own life? Please give us an
                           example to illustrate this.
                      7.   What positive or negative emotions have you had in your family/household during the last year?
                           Was there more anger, sadness, suffering or joy, love or satisfaction? Please specify the situations in
                           which positive or negative emotions have occurred.

We tried to build the questions in
the questionaire according to ATD
model