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• Buy in by the population of the public policies and priority actions selected for
implementation and monitoring and evaluation of the DSNCRP;
• Commitment to build capacity to gather, process, and disseminate information at both
the levels of the public sector and civil society organizations through the
establishment of an Observatory of Poverty and Social Exclusion [Observatoire de la
Pauvreté et de l’exclusion sociale ONPES]; and
• Commitment to build the capacity of civil society organizations with a view to
having them participate fully in the process through the identification and ongoing
evaluation of groups and/or grassroots organizations.
14 The departmental, sectoral, and national gatherings, meetings, and workshops focused on the
following themes and sectors:
o Pro-poor growth (agriculture, industry/trade/crafts, roads/transport, electricity,
tourism, and science and technology);
o Governance and institutional reforms (justice system/rule of law, fiscal transparency,
public management modernization/decentralization, and territorial management);
o Development of the social sectors (health/HIV/AIDS, education, water/sanitation;
o Sectoral and departmental socio-economic assessments (development constraints,
assets and potential, main intervention areas, and priority actions;
o Sectoral and departmental assessments of human poverty (access to educational
services, health services, running water, sanitation services, and housing;
o Cross-cutting sectors (poverty and children, gender issues, border, maritime, and
adjacent island problems, urban and rural development, the environment, and risks
and disasters.
15 Several information, orientation, and summary documents on these themes and sectors were
prepared by the Technical Secretariat of the DSNCRP Drafting Committee and distributed as
widely as possible to partners for purposes of consideration, discussion, analysis, feedback, and
advice, with a view to the improvement and ownership of these documents.
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