PRSP
- How have rural households adapted in Rwanada?
- A. McKay; S. Loveridge / The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 2006
- This paper looks at how Rwandan households adjusted their cropping and income generating strategies to produce an outcome of reduced malnutrition rates from 1990-2000, despite population and land pressures and the impact of the 1994 g...
- Analysis of poverty reduction strategy monitoring systems in 12 countries
- T. Bedi; A. Coudouel; M. Cox; M. Goldstein; N. Thornton / PovertyNet, World Bank, 2006
- This volume provides lessons on the design and functioning of Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) monitoring systems, based on the experience of twelve PRS countries. The focus is on the institutional arrangements of PRS monitoring syste...
- Civil Society involvement in PRSP monitoring in Nicaragua
- T. Braunschweig; B. Stöckli / Alliance Sud, Swiss Alliance of Development Organisations, 2006
- Based on perception of civil society representatives in Nicaragua, this study assesses constraints and potentials of civil society involvement in poverty reduction strategy (PRS) monitoring processes in Nicaragua. The study applies an...
- Can Economic Partnership Agreements achieve the status of development "accords"?
- E. Anderson; C. Stevens / Overseas Development Institute, 2006
- Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) are thought to be a pragmatic fix to world trade problems, and their supporters also believe they can facilitate the achievement of broader development goals. This briefing paper examines what EP...
- Economic growth the key to sustainable poverty reduction in Mozambique?
- B.R. Bolnick / Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2006
- Once a nation struggling with the damaging effects of two decades of civil war, Mozambique now towers over its neighbours in terms of human security and development. However, it remains a poor country facing numerous obstacles to equi...
- An evaluation of the poverty reduction strategy approach
- M. Allen; D.M. Leipziger / International Monetary Fund, 2005
- The PRS (poverty reduction strategy) approach has become widespread over the last five years. This paper presents a review of the PRS approach in the form of an extensive discussion of implementation experience up until 2005. The revi...
- The participation of indigenous peoples in the PRSP process in Cameroon
- B. Tchoumba / International Labour Organization, 2005
- The Cameroonian poverty reduction strategy paper (PRSP), approved in 2003, is presented as a document developed in a participatory manner. However, beyond official discourse on participation and consultation with the population in thi...
- Politicising the PRS approach in Latin America
- D. Booth; A. Grigsby; C. Toranzo / Overseas Development Institute, 2006
- This paper addresses the perception that poverty reduction strategy (PRS) processes in Latin America and the Caribbean have not grappled effectively with politics, and have not engaged successfully with political actors and institutio...
- Addressing the transport needs of sub-Saharan Africa
- Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy Program, World Bank, 2006
- This paper reports on the sub-Saharan Africa transport policy programme (SSATP) annual meeting, held in Bakamo, Mali in November 2005. Its focus was on moving forward with implementation of the SSATP long-term development plan -design...
- The nature and extent of indigenous participation in the PRSP process
- M. Tomei / International Labour Organization, 2005
- Indigenous and tribal peoples represent about 5 per cent of the world's population, but over 15 per cent of the world's poor. The incidence of extreme poverty is higher among them than among other social groups and they generally bene...
- Analysis of poverty reduction strategy monitoring systems in 12 countries
- T. Bedi; A. Coudouel; M. Cox; M. Goldstein; N. Thornton / PovertyNet, World Bank, 2006
- This volume provides lessons on the design and functioning of Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) monitoring systems, based on the experience of twelve PRS countries. The focus is on the institutional arrangements of PRS monitoring syste...
- Civil Society involvement in PRSP monitoring in Nicaragua
- T. Braunschweig; B. Stöckli / Alliance Sud, Swiss Alliance of Development Organisations, 2006
- Based on perception of civil society representatives in Nicaragua, this study assesses constraints and potentials of civil society involvement in poverty reduction strategy (PRS) monitoring processes in Nicaragua. The study applies an...
- Can Economic Partnership Agreements achieve the status of development "accords"?
- E. Anderson; C. Stevens / Overseas Development Institute, 2006
- Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) are thought to be a pragmatic fix to world trade problems, and their supporters also believe they can facilitate the achievement of broader development goals. This briefing paper examines what EP...
- Economic growth the key to sustainable poverty reduction in Mozambique?
- B.R. Bolnick / Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2006
- Once a nation struggling with the damaging effects of two decades of civil war, Mozambique now towers over its neighbours in terms of human security and development. However, it remains a poor country facing numerous obstacles to equi...
- An evaluation of the poverty reduction strategy approach
- M. Allen; D.M. Leipziger / International Monetary Fund, 2005
- The PRS (poverty reduction strategy) approach has become widespread over the last five years. This paper presents a review of the PRS approach in the form of an extensive discussion of implementation experience up until 2005. The revi...
- The participation of indigenous peoples in the PRSP process in Cameroon
- B. Tchoumba / International Labour Organization, 2005
- The Cameroonian poverty reduction strategy paper (PRSP), approved in 2003, is presented as a document developed in a participatory manner. However, beyond official discourse on participation and consultation with the population in thi...
- Politicising the PRS approach in Latin America
- D. Booth; A. Grigsby; C. Toranzo / Overseas Development Institute, 2006
- This paper addresses the perception that poverty reduction strategy (PRS) processes in Latin America and the Caribbean have not grappled effectively with politics, and have not engaged successfully with political actors and institutio...
- Addressing the transport needs of sub-Saharan Africa
- Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy Program, World Bank, 2006
- This paper reports on the sub-Saharan Africa transport policy programme (SSATP) annual meeting, held in Bakamo, Mali in November 2005. Its focus was on moving forward with implementation of the SSATP long-term development plan -design...
- The nature and extent of indigenous participation in the PRSP process
- M. Tomei / International Labour Organization, 2005
- Indigenous and tribal peoples represent about 5 per cent of the world's population, but over 15 per cent of the world's poor. The incidence of extreme poverty is higher among them than among other social groups and they generally bene...
- Integrating gender equality into changing aid modalties
- The Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality, 2005
- In January 2006, the United Nations Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE) and the Network on Gender Equality of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) held a joint meeting on the implica...
- Equity and Justice Working Group (EJWG)
- Activists advocating policy dialogue and change in attitudes in Bangladesh
