The overall objective of this project is to assess the potential for investors to contribute to poverty alleviation through their investment activities. The project also aims to raise investor awareness of the importance of poverty alleviation as a corporate responsibility issue, to identify the key barriers to institutional investor action on poverty alleviation and development, and to develop proposals to help overcome these barriers...The project will comprise of three distinct stages: Initial Launch; Roundtables; Final Briefing/Project Conclusion.