Programmatic Framework



The Fund's Program Reference Framework provides information about the priorities established jointly by the IDB and DFID in the context of the two programs (namely PSPS and LAMIT.) Therefore, its aim is to guide the formulation of well targeted project proposals, providing complementary information in addition to that contained in the Operational Guidelines.

This document establishes the following areas of intervention under each program:

Access to Latin American Markets and International Trade-LAMIT:

(i) Responsive Country and Regional Strategy Processes: providing support to the development of good practices that enable country and regional strategies to be more responsive to poor and excluded people's interests

(ii) Pro-poor Market Access: supporting innovative policies and approaches to private sector development that promote pro-poor market access and sustainable development, with an initial focus on informality; and

(iii) Trade and Poverty: supporting innovative policies and approaches to trade integration that promote pro-poor growth, focusing on the distributive impact of market opening and on regional and domestic complementary policies.

Responsive Country and Regional Strategy Processes-PSPS:

(i) Improving the political representation of the poor in Latin America: Enhancing the impact of operations by including work which will strengthen overall governance by underpinning improved representation of the poor and excluded groups in the political systems of borrowing countries, and increase incentives for undertaking analytical and other work around democratic governance, empowerment and politics and building these insights into policy actions.

(ii) Fiscal and budgetary governance: Providing support to policy changes and operations on budgets that enhance accountability, transparency, distributional impact and responsiveness to poor and excluded people.

(iii) Improved generation, accessibility and use of evidence and data: Developing programs that are responsive to poor and excluded people's interests, increasing access to information, increasing participation and civic engagement, increasing accountability and transparency in budgeting and fiscal management as well as the use of empirical evidence in the design and implementation of public policies.

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