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| Document Date:
| 2005/09/01 |
| Document Type:
| Working Paper |
| Report Number:
| 48395 |
| Volume No:
| 1 of 1 |
| Country:
| World ; |
| Doc Name:
| 2005 Review of the PRS approach : balancing accountabilities and scaling up results |
| Keywords:
| access to safe water, Accountability, accountability framework, accountability mechanisms, annual budgets, budget allocations, budget cycle, budget department, budget management, budget management process, budget preparation, budget process, budget reform, budget reforms, budgetary policy, CAPACITY BUILDING, capacity constraints, Central Bank, central government, child survival, Citizens, civil servants, civil service, Civil Society Organizations, civil society participation, conditionality, debt, debt relief, decision-making, demographic trends, developing countries, Development Assistance, development efforts, DEVELOPMENT GOALS, development interventions, development objectives, development planning, development planning process, development plans, development strategies, diseases, Dissemination, donor assistance, donor coordination, ECONOMIC GROWTH, education strategies, Environmental Impact, environmental sustainability, expenditure analysis, Expenditure Management, expenditure programs, Expenditure Tracking Surveys, external assistance, Financial Accountability, financial burden, financial impact, FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, fiscal framework, focus group discussions, food insecurity, forest cover, government departments, government revenue, health sector, high population growth, high population growth rates, HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, Human Rights, Illiteracy, individual members, Infant, Infant mortality, information systems, infrastructure services, institutional capacity, large numbers of people, Life expectancy, live births, living standards, local development, local governments, low-income countries, Low-Income Country, macro-economic forecasts, macroeconomic policy, macroeconomic stability, management systems, maternal mortality, maternal mortality ratio, Measles, Measles immunization, medium-term development, Medium-term Expenditure, Medium-term Expenditure Framework, Medium-term expenditure frameworks, Millennium Development Goals, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Finance, multilateral agencies, multilateral donors, municipalities, national agenda, national development, national income, national policies, natural resources, nutritional status, operational framework, organic budget law, Outcome indicators, pandemic, PARTICIPATORY PROCESS, Performance Assessment, Performance targets, policy decisions, policy dialogue, policy formulation, policy goals, policy process, political parties, political support, political systems, Pollution, poor families, POOR PEOPLE, positive impacts, Poverty reducing, Poverty Reduction, poverty reduction strategies, Poverty Reduction Strategy, Poverty Reduction Support, POVERTY-REDUCING EXPENDITURE, poverty-reducing expenditures, Primary school, priorities of government, private sector, program design, programs, PROGRESS, PUBLIC EXPENDITURE, public expenditure management, public expenditure management systems, Public Expenditure Review, Public Expenditure Tracking, public expenditures, Public Financial Management, public financial management systems, public interventions, public policy, PUBLIC SECTOR, PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT, public spending, public support, Public Works, qualitative information, reform process, regulatory agencies, regulatory framework, resource availability, respect, revenue projections, road network, road transport, Rule of Law, safe water, sanitation, school fees, school-age population, secondary school, sector expenditure, sectoral allocations, sectoral policies, service delivery, service providers, Social Impact, social protection, structural reforms, sustainable development, technical assistance, technical capacity, trade unions, transparency, tuberculosis, universal primary education, Urban population, VULNERABLE GROUPS, War, World Health Organization
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| Language:
| English |
| Region:
| The World Region ; |
| Rep Title:
| 2005 Review of the PRS approach : balancing accountabilities and scaling up results |
| Topics:
| Public Sector Development ; Governance ; Health, Nutrition and Population ; Poverty Reduction |
| SubTopics:
| Public Sector Corruption & Anticorruption Measures ; Governance Indicators ; Poverty Monitoring & Analysis ; Public Sector Expenditure Policy ; Population Policies |
| Unit Owning:
| Poverty, Gender and Equity Group (LCSPP) |
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| The Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) approach provides the operational framework for governments to set their development priorities and to specify policies, programs, and resources needed to meet their goals. This process helps to crystallize political commitment and accountability, both for countries themselves and for their development partners, for accelerating progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Yet this paper will discuss, the agenda ahead requires a sustained, long-term commitment. As noted in the 2002 PRS review, the PRS approach is a major challenge for low-income countries, both in terms of analysis and organization. Besides managing a complex policy dialogue with a wide range of stakeholders, low-income country governments have to put together an integrated medium-term development and poverty reduction strategy, complete with short and long-term goals and monitoring systems. These are a set of tasks that few industrial countries could systematically do well. Moreover, these tasks must be managed with limited technical and institutional capacity and in ways that reinforce, rather than undermine, existing national institutions, processes, and governance systems. Expectations, therefore, need to be realistic. This review concludes that the core principles that underpin the PRS approach should be maintained, and that they provide the foundation on which results at the country level are achieved. But, there are no 'magic bullets.' The range of institutions, systems, and underlying analysis that needs to be strengthened at the country-specific level is large. Progress is being made in some dimensions; in other areas, adjustments are needed to more fully realize the potential benefits. |
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