November 6-7, 2008---Poverty Analysis and Data Initiative (PADI) Meeting took place in Nanjing, China. The purpose of the meeting is to confirm the objective and institutional functions of PADI specified on the 7th Annual meeting on 9-12 June 2008 in Kuala Lumpur. The meeting also confirmed that the International Poverty Reduction Center in China (IPRCC) shall remain the PADI Secretariat. It mandated a core group  to prepare the institutional structure and a draft work plan for the newly institutionalized PADI work in 2009-2010. The core group proposed the following institutional structure and work plan:

While the old PADI comprised an informal network for capacity building on poverty and development indicators, the new PADI shall transform from a "Poverty Analysis and Data Initiative" (PADI) into a formal "Poverty Analysis and Development Initiative" (PADI). The "new" PADI will work to promote - at the regional and country levels - poverty research, data and poverty information, and policy influencing for East Asian countries (ASEAN+). PADI will emphasize stronger country ownership of national work and at the same time stronger policy influencing at the regional level. It will support activities more selectively and under a thematic cluster approach.