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Research, policy engagement and practice: reflections on efforts to mainstream children into Ethiopia’s second national poverty reduction strategy
Young Lives, 2005This paper explores efforts to bridge multi-disciplinary research, policy engagement and practice to improve the life quality of children living in poverty, focusing on Ethiopia.The paper is structured in two parts. The first section discusses the importance of mapping the policy context so as to carry out effective policy influencing for and with children.DocumentMainstreaming children into national poverty strategies: a child-focused analysis of the Ethiopian Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction Programe (2002-05)
Young Lives, 2005This paper assesses how the needs of children are incorporated into Ethiopia’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP), known as the Ethiopian Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction Programme 2002-2005 (SDRDP), and to develop policy recommendations for the second PRSP based on a comparative content analysis with other countries’ PRSPs.The paper identifies key components of a child-centreDocumentPoverty Reduction Strategy Papers: children first!: a case study on PRSP processes in Ethiopia, Kenya and Zambia
Kindernothilfe, 2005This study aims to contribute to an assessment of Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) processes in Ethiopia, Kenya and Zambia from a child rights perspective. It links up with a previous study, titled "Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers: blind to the rights of the (working) child?", which showed that the majority of the PRSPs did not deal with child labour.DocumentRecommendations from a child rights perspective with regard to joint World Bank and IMF 2005 PRS review
Kindernothilfe, 2005This paper identifies a number of gaps in PRSPs relating to child rights, and makes recommendations to integrate a child rights perspective into PRSPs.The paper provides the following critiques of the PRSPs:no current (I-) PRSP attempts to classify child and youth poverty in its poverty analysismost (I-) PRSPs pay little or no attention to youth unemployment, to the labour conditionDocumentThe case for investing in young people as part of a national poverty reduction strategy
United Nations Population Fund, 2005This publication focuses on national efforts to reduce poverty.DocumentPoverty reduction strategy papers: do they matter for children and young people made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS?
World Bank, 2004This study reviews PRSPs and National HIV/AIDS Plans (NSPs) to assess how HIV/AIDS is being addressed in PRSPs.Findings of the study, with regard to content and process of the PRSPs include:the PRSP process has started to add value by bringing HIV/AIDS into national poverty planning processes, but progress in transforming stated objectives into actual programmes is slowPRSP plannedDocumentPoverty Reduction Strategy Papers: blind to the rights of the (working) child?
Kindernothilfe, 2004In 2005 the International Monetary Fund and World Bank will undertake a comprehensive review of PRSP processes.DocumentChildren and young people participating in PRSP processes: lessons from Save the Children's experience
Save the Children Fund, 2004This paper summarises from Save the Children UK's experience in facilitating children and young people’s participation in PRSP processes, highlighting in particular the experiences of Vietnam and Honduras, and drawing on insights from Lesotho, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the work of a Guyanese NGO.DocumentPRS: poverty reduction or public relations strategies?
Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 2000As a response to the criticisms from campaigning groups and NGOs throughout the world, the Boards of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund commissioned the 1999 Fundamental Review of the HIPC Initiative.