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  IFAD desk review of the PRSP Process in Eastern and Southern Africa

  European Network on Debt and Development, 2002

  This desk analysis is based on an analysis of the PRSP process in 10 countries (Angola, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia).
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  Civil society participation in Rwanda’s poverty reduction strategy

  European Network on Debt and Development, 2003

  This paper argues that the participation conditionality linked to the PRSP is too ambitious to be workable and too vague to be monitored. Typically, the Bretton Woods institutions have been lenient in the verifying of this conditionality, as a result of which governments can get away with a semblance of civil society consultation.
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  Rethinking food aid to fight AIDS

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This paper from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) highlights the implications of the AIDS pandemic for food aid strategy and programming.
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  The impact of increases in public expenditure on poverty in Rwanda

  PRSP Monitoring and Synthesis Project, 2003

  This study of Rwanda's PSIA addresses a poverty and social impact analysis of macroeconomic projections exploring the impact of expenditure programmes subsequent public spending asset out in the countrys' PRSP. The evidence for the key macroeconomic relationships is gained partly from econometric analysis of Rwandan data.
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  National poverty reduction strategies (PRSPs) in conflict-affected countries in Africa

  PRSP Monitoring and Synthesis Project, 2003

  This briefing note, published by the PRSP Monitoring and Synthesis Project, describes a study of progress with, and prospects for, the implementation of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) in countries affected by conflict. It focuses on Uganda, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Nigeria, and Sudan.
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  Costing Poverty Reduction Strategies: early experience

  PRSP Monitoring and Synthesis Project, 2002

  This paper gives an analysis of the Poverty Reduction Strategy approach through assessing fiscal implications of reaching medium and long-term poverty reduction targets.
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  Do Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) address gender? A gender audit of 2002 PRSPs

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003

  This paper provides an audit of the 13 PRSPs produced during 2002 to question the efficiency with which they address gender issues.Findings:3 PRSPs address gender issues commendably if not completely (Malawi, Rwanda and Zambia)another 8 PRSPs spottily apply an outdated Women in Development approach, defining gender issues as reproductive health, girls’ education and a few other issu
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  Lasting wounds: consequences of genocide and war on Rwanda's children

  Human Rights Watch, 2003

  This report documents widespread violations of the rights of the child in post-genocide Rwanda.
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  Does the HIPC initiative achieve its goal of debt sustainability?

  WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001

  This paper examines the question if the HIPC Initiative provides a good basis for HIPCs to exit from repeated debt rescheduling.The article concludes that:one of the most serious problems of the HIPC Initiative is that it may not achieve its key goal of providing a solid exit from future debt rescheduling.
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  Debt relief for Rwanda: an opportunity for peace-building and reconstruction

  Oxfam, 1999

  Paper is prompted by a growing concern that an unsustainable debt burden is one of the factors which jeopardise reconstruction efforts in Rwanda, and that debt relief could be a crucial element of a wider strategy of international engagement, aimed at encouraging respect for human rights and building peace. The paper argues that existing debt relief mechanisms are not being fully utilised.

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