Eastern Caribbean countries are reportedly finding the Caribbean Development Bank’s recently developed Enhanced Country Poverty Assessment (eCPA) toolkit more than useful in supporting responses to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, information emanating from the Bank suggests.
The Bank has been implementing its Toolkit through its Caribbean Disaster Risk Reduction Fund (CDRRF) supported by Canada and the European Union.
It appears that governments in the Eastern Caribbean are reacting favourably to an instrument that provides reliable information regarding families requiring social protection, a facility that can be more than handy at a time when governments in the region are preoccupied with responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.