Development of poverty reduction tools and guidelines for the IDB operations

implementation

The general objective of the TC is to develop the necessary tools and guidelines to assess how IDB projects are being targeted to the poor in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) to facilitate monitoring of project's contributions to its strategic objective to reduce poverty and inequality as stated in the Banks institutional strategy . The specific objectives are: (i) developing and updating poverty analysis tools to enable the identification of poverty-targeted operations; (ii) establishing a knowledge base for project classification across sectors, ensuring alignment with poverty reduction efforts; (iii) deepening country and regional poverty analysis; and (iv) enhancing knowledge dissemination and capacity building to ensure effective application of newly developed poverty analysis tools.