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MINISTRY OF PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES & PENSIONS
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CAPACITY BUILDING FOR POVERTY REDUCTION (CPBR) THROUGH DFID
14 The Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances has undertaken
a project funded by the Department for International Development (DFID), UK on
‘Capacity Building for Poverty Reduction’ (CBPR). The purpose of CBPR programme
is to assist the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions in its efforts
to promote and support improvements in public administration, which will benefit
the poor and the marginalised. The UK Government has provided an assistance of
six million pounds i.e., Rupees 48.02 crores for this project during the period 2005-
06 to 2008-09. The project period has been extended up to December 2010 with no
additional cost.
Approach
14.1 The rationale for approach taken in this programme emanates from the fact that
effective, efficient, and equitable delivery of basic services to the poor is a strong
and positive correlate of poverty reduction. It is therefore reasonable to assume
that competent and effective public service delivery systems within the realms of
public administration are of critical importance for working towards poverty reduction.
The initiatives
14.2 The initiatives under the programme include:-
(i)
(ii)
State of Governance Report: This entails assessment, through scoring, of
the states in the country on pre-determined dimensions of governance. The
outputs of the initiative would be the rolling out of the state of governance for
states on an agreed working concept of governance and its indicators with
specific reference to poverty reduction.
Functional and Strategic Review : This involves diagnosis and prescription
for enabling Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances to
emerge as the internal consultant to the government on reforms with refer-
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