Sida documents in a poverty perspective

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A review of how poverty is addressed in Sida’s country strategy papers, assessment memoranda and evaluations

Study has three main aims:

to assess how poverty has been analysed and presented in recent country strategy documents and evaluations
to present proposals for and develop for new assessment criteria on how Sida can measure changes in the quality of evaluations
reassess existing material with new critieria

Main observations stress the need to:

make assumed linkages to poverty reduction more explicit:

define information needs with regard to poverty

treat poverty systematically thoughout the different documents

make priorities and establish a focus

define "poverty" more closely

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