Small area estimates of poverty havebecome useful tool in targeting poverty reduction bygeographic areas. For Nepal, this is the second poverty mapproduced after a gap of seven years in collaboration withthe Central Bureau of statistics, Nepal. This reportpresents 2010/11 small-area estimates and maps for Nepal atthe 75 district, 967 ilaka and 2344 'target area'level, of poverty incidence, poverty gap, and povertyseverity. The report also provides maps of the number ofpoor and their average consumption. As the newly introducedtarget areas are generally smaller than conventionalaggregation levels, special attention is devoted toinvestigating the precision of the point estimates and tointerpretation of the results. The poverty maps couldusefully be expanded to other indicators of welfare such asnutrition and food security like in 2006. Detailed spatialdistribution of poverty offers an opportunity to explorefurther the causes of poverty trends in Nepal. When combinedwith the spatial distribution of correlates of poverty suchas access to roads, schools and health facilities, and othervariable of economic geography, one can further ourunderstanding of the persistence of pockets of poverty inNepal. The present report updates the 2006 results for Nepalin three ways. First, it uses the recently published 2010/11round of the Nepal Living Standards Survey (NLSS) and 2011population census in order to produce an updated descriptionof the spatial patterns of poverty. Second, it incorporatesnew methodological refinements aimed at improving modelingof the standard error. Third, in an effort to improvepractical usability of the results, estimates are producedat the sub-ilaka or Village Development Committees (VDC)level - where possible-instead of sticking with the ilakalevel that was used in 2006.
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