International Poverty Centre
The International Poverty Centre (IPC) is one of three global thematic facilities that have been established by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to bring knowledge-based development services closer to country partners around the world. Therefore it joins the Governance Centre (Oslo, Norway) and the Drylands Development Centre (Nairobi, Kenya) as part of UNDP's effort to decentralize its key practice areas and build up substantive capacity for policy analysis and implementation in the field.
Based in Brasília, IPC has been built on a partnership between UNDP and the Government of Brazil’s Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA). By working jointly with the country's principal economic policy institute, IPC is structured on this strategic partnership that serves to make the Centre a hub linking poverty expertise from within and outside the organization.
At the UNDP, the centre will synchronize its efforts with the Bureau of Development Policy (BDP), to develop and further poverty programming.
For further information on IPC, please visit our web site: www.undp.org/povertycentre
