Programme set up to address the lack of widely applicable, low-cost tools for poverty assessment. Its major aim is to develop and certify at least two tools for assessing the poverty level of USAID’s microenterprise beneficiaries. The program constitutes a consortium led by the IRIS Center.
This website hosts updates and reports and discussions around developing and recommending poverty assessment tools. It also hosts a Poverty Assessment Tools listserv, where discussions are moderated and conducted with bounded timelines. Summaries of previous listserv discussions are also hosted on this website.