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Module I
Poverty Reduction Strategies, Social Dialogue and Gender Equality
as sense of ownership by the country. There should be broad-based participation in
the creation and implementation of the PRSP, so that it produces actions appropriate
to the local context;
a results orientated approach. The PRSP should be focused on outcomes to benefit
the poor;
the establishment of priorities, which recognize the multidimensional nature of
poverty;
a partnership approach. The PRSP process requires coordination with a wide range of
internal and external partners;
a progressive approach. The PRSP should aim to adopt a long-term approach to
poverty reduction, based on a process of societal transformation.
3. What are the contents of a PRSP
Each country’s PRSP will generally include:
an account of the participatory process undertaken in the development of the PRSP;
a poverty diagnosis. This includes a description of the nature and determinants of
poverty, including its geographical distribution; an understanding of poverty in terms
of both its income and non-income aspects (this in turn includes an understanding
that men and women can experience poverty in different ways); the public actions
already taken to reduce poverty;
cross-sectoral strategies, governance issues, public expenditure management issues;
policy measures and anticipated risks;
targets, indicators and monitoring systems for the evaluation of progress in the
implementation of the PRSP.
4. What are the steps required for the
development and completion of a PRSP
The first stage in the process of developing a PRSP is the preparation by the
government of an Interim-PRSP (I-PRSP). This is designed to be a summary of the
current knowledge and analysis of a country’s poverty situation, a description of
proposed public actions under the first phase of the poverty reduction strategy and of
ways to monitor and evaluate these actions, and information on how the fully
developed PRSP is to be prepared, including details of the participatory process;
the Interim PRSP and – once completed – the final PRSP are submitted to the World
Bank;
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