Media
Report
Presentation
Team
Tatiana Macio
Blerta Cela
Verouschka Capellan
Michela Calabrese
Aja Badame
Organization
United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF)
About
In 1999, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund began requiring low-income countries to develop national Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRSP) to receive debt relief and further concessional lending. However, despite five years of PRSP implementation, one question has yet to be adequately addressed: how have PRSPs impacted the reduction of child poverty? Children are disproportionately affected by poverty and as such, need their own analysis.
The Child Poverty Impact Assessment Team (CPIAT), commissioned by UNICEF and coordinated by the New School University’s Graduate Program in International Affairs, designed and piloted a methodology in Nicaragua, one of the first countries to implement the PRSP, to determine if child poverty has been reduced by PRSPs.
To develop this methodology, CPIAT employed a multi-dimensional approach relying on quantitative and qualitative methods. First, the team conducted a thorough collection of secondary data which included a literature review, a poverty-related expenditure budget analysis and a review of PRSP child indicator areas. Additionally, a stakeholder mapping was conducted. This entailed extensive research on the executors and implementers of PRSP policies, civil society working in related sectors and academics.
