This research is designed to throw light on factors and processes behind the poor integration of the WSS sector in PRSPs. Focusing on selected sub-Saharan African countries - Malawi, Zambia and Uganda - the research will seek to make recommendations as to how the design, financing and delivery of WSS programmes within PRSPs may be improved.
The Water and Sanitation Sector (WSS) however has suffered from poor integration into the PRSP and budgetary processes. This report examines why this might be the case, by examining the integration of the WSS in PRSPs in three Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, Uganda, Zambia and Malawi, and comparing this experience to generic experiences in the education and health sectors.
Progress in Implementation; PRSs in Asia; Next Generation PRSPs.
This paper examines the social and economic consequences of the food crisis affecting Zamba in 2001-2.
Under Structural Adjustment, developing countries had been required to subject their economies to competition from international trade in exchange for loans to their governments. After the Washington Consensus was deemed to have failed, Poverty Reduction Strategies were introduced as a way of managing debt relief, addressing social objectives, and giving countries stronger 'ownership' over their recovery policies. But in what ways, regarding trade, do PRSPs and the succeeding loans improve on the preceding arrangements? This book reviews the trade and poverty content of PRSPs and the policy conditions of the lending arrangements which followed for seventeen countries. It concludes that whereas loans almost invariably still establish conditions for trade liberalisation, PRSPs, with few exceptions, neglect trade policy (tending to focus on expenditure rather than production and economic growth). There is thus asymmetry between these innovatory poverty-focused policies and IFI loan financing. The report recommends to redress this imbalance by improving the trade content of the poverty analysis in PRSPs, and for donors and lenders to address supply-side policies relating to trade infrastructure.
WB/IMF PRSP Progress Report; WB/IMF Evaluation of PRSP and PRGF approach; IMF Guidelines on Conditionality; PRS Monitoring in Africa and Asia.
ODI convened this meeting in order to provide a forum for informed discussion on the complex causes of the current food crisis in Southern Africa, and options for dealing with them in the coming months and over the longer-term.
This paper comments on various topics relating to the current IMF initiative to 'streamline' its conditionality, setting this in the context of various other changes occurring simultaneously and of the responses of the World Bank.
A review of water resources management and WSS aspects under PRSPs and equivalent development documents in 10 countries.