Civil Society Global Policy Forum on the PRS Review

On Thursday April 21, 2005,  over 100 labor union, NGOs, parliamentarians, government officials, and donors from over 50 countries came together and provided a critical input into this year’s IMF/World Bank 2005 PRSP Review. This was followed by a day of discussion of Bank Civil Society relations more general.  Recommendations on the PRS day included:

• Greater policy coherence among donors and programmatic accountability by governments in order to improve the poverty impacts of the PRSPs;
• Deepened quality of civil society participation; currently there is a widespread sense that CSO input is not reflected in the final versions of PRSPs;
• Greater attention to monitoring and evaluation, including consideration of a wider set of policy and analytical alternatives.

Agenda (2.29mb PDF)

Session Summaries

• Plenary Session (42kb PDF)
• A. Sustaining Meaningful Participation (15kb PDF)
• B. Poverty Analysis and Data Analysis (88kb PDF)
• C. Formulating Country Development Goals and MDG (56kb PDF)
• D. Integrating PRS into Decision Making-Medium Term Expenditure Frameworks and Budgets (34kb PDF)
• E. Aligning and Harmonizing Support to the Country's PRS
• F. Second Round of PRSs and Policy Alternatives (50kb PDF)
• G. Tailoring the PRS Approach to Countries in Difficult Circumstances (26kb PDF)
• H. Poverty Reduction Strategies in Non-PRSP Countries (10kb PDF)

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