Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers: a new convergence

Background Information on Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers and the Water Sector -

• What is a Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper? • How did Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers come aboout • Principles and Processes guiding PRSPs • How does the PRSP process work? • Linking Poverty Reduction Strategies to National Budgeting • Limitations of PRSPs • What are Sector-Wide Approaches? • Implications for the (Water) Sectoral Level • How has the water sector featured in PRSPs so far? • ...

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION AND INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND Review of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) Approach: Early Experience with Interim PRSPs and Full PRSPs

II. Experience in Implementing the PRSP Approach...................................................................9 A. Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (I-PRSPs) ...................................................9 Taking stock of the I-PRSP experience .......................................................................10 Prospective I-PRSPs ...........................................

Evaluation of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers and the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility, Issues Paper/Terms of Reference - Independent Evaluation Office, January 31, 2003

Policies to Roll - back the State and Privatize ? Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers

This paper investigates poverty reduction strategy papers (PRSPs), launched by the International Monetary Fund/World Bank in 1999 as conditions for debt relief and loans. It queries whether PRSPs really represent a shift away from the controversial structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) of the past. Ostensibly PRSPs have a greater focus on poverty reduction, yet this investigation finds little...

The Politics of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers

This paper offers a critique on the politics of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers and their framework, processes, and content. The paper challenges the fundamental assumptions of the poverty reduction approach and the underlying politics of the international financial institutions with a view to seek the answer to question as to why the development programmes initiated under the auspices of...