The “Poverty Stoplight” Approach to Eliminating Multidimensional Poverty: Business, Civil Society, and Government Working Together in Paraguay ( Innovations Case Narrative: Fundación Paraguaya)

Abstract

The author describes his work with Fundacion Paraguaya, a 28-year old nonprofit development organization that works in Latin America and Africa, and their development of a practical methodology and tool that allows poor families to self-diagnose their level of poverty as a first step in developing a personalized strategy to lift themselves permanently out of poverty. The methodology and tools also allow businesses, nonprofits, and governments to support families' efforts to pull themselves out of poverty in efficient, targeted ways. Adapted from the source document.