After a preliminary study on qualitative methodology on Poverty in Mauritius carried out by the Decentralised Cooperation Programme of the European Union and a workshop with various stakeholders in the social and poverty field there was a call for proposal in December 2008 inviting submissions of projects for the operation of a Poverty Observatory in the Republic of Mauritius. The aim of the Poverty Observatory was to carry out qualitative research. However, quantitative information was used as background to carry out the qualitative study. The major distinction of the poverty observatory methodology was that there would be no repetition of findings as in most of the previous studies carried out.