Accelerating Poverty

Diego Zavaleta Reyles Senior Policy Advisor, United Nations Development Programme ACCELERATING POVERTY REDUCTION IN LAC TOWARDS A POST-2030 AGENDA AUGUST 20242 Source: World Bank based on SEDLAC (CEDLAS and the World Bank). [...] Explained by growth and innovative policies - conditional cash transfer schemes. Yet a worrying decline in poverty reduction rates in recent years. Strong progress in the first decade and a half of the century …..3 A series of crises took center stage in public debates across LAC in the last years that eclipsed the debate around poverty. [...] Decline in public debate on poverty Source: Google Number of searches of the term “poverty” in Google in LAC (% of base number in 2004)4 In SDG 1, progress is either negative or in the right path but too slow to reach the target. [...] Falling behind the SDG targetsUNDP Strategic Plan 2022-2025 One of three moonshots for 2025: “to help empower 100 million poor, marginalized, and excluded populations to escape persistent multidimensional poverty and vulnerabilities.” 56 LAC is a particularly active region on this topic, for various reasons. 12 countries with official measures: México, Colombia, Chile, El Salvador, Costa [...] Strategic partners and new way of engaging with them – new model that can serve as a basis for a post-2030 agenda • CAF/UNDP Annual Conference on Poverty in LAC • Country support • Training for UNDP/CAF staff and public sector specialists • Incentives for think-tanks and research centers engagement with policy designHow? 2. [...] Strengthening of internal capacities – upcoming RBLAC’s Poverty Hub. 3. [...] Advocacy – bringing “poverty” back to the center stage of public debate. 4. [...] More and better data …… but also new and more policies – we need to bring innovation back and be able to design the new “cash transfer schemes”. big push from measurement to policy “building a measurement and evaluation system is a political challenge, with technical elements, not the other way around” – Gonzalo HernándezHow? 5. [...] More and better data, yes …… INCLUDING a big push for missing dimensions of poverty data. 6. [...] How to address poverty within indigenous groups?