MECOVI: Improving the Survey and Measurement of Living Conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean

The MECOVI program was launched in 1996, as a joint initiative of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the World Bank, and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN-ECLAC), driven by the need to improve the statistical knowledge base on households poverty and living conditions at the household level in the region. The program has two principal components: (i) activities at the country level; and (ii) regional activities (training, workshops and organization of the household survey database).