Transcript Overview and Guidance for Review of Poverty Reduction

Overview and Guidance
Review of
Poverty Reduction Strategies
Lamin Manneh
Head
Strategic and Regional Initiatives Unit
Regional Bureau for Africa.
Niamey, 9 March 2006
Recap……….
Workshop Objectives
– Enhance national capacities for effective planning and
implementation process for accelerating progress
towards MDGs in Africa.
– Exchange of experiences and good practices
– In the short-run, contribute towards meeting by African
countries of the targets set at the 2005 World Summit for
putting in place MDG-based plans by end-2006
Expected Outcomes
• Increased knowledge and expertise of workshop participants
for conducting MDG-based planning processes and pro-poor
policy planning
• Strengthened capacity of countries to prepare MDG-based
Plans by end-2006
• UNDP Field Economists, UNCT Technical Staff and
Headquarter officials better equipped to facilitate process of
MDG-based planning
• Enhanced teamwork among external partners (UN System,
BWIs, ECA, ADB, Bilaterals, CSOs) for supporting Africa’s
efforts at making progress towards the MDGs.
What MDGs stand for
• MDGs are not new, they have been around
for along time : UNDP’s Human
Development Approach is a good
Illustration; IDTs of the 1990s.
• BUT the MDGs are
– The first universally agreed and time-bound
goals, commitment to whose attainment has
been made by the entire international
community.
MDG-based Planning
Here we look at
• Principles
• Process
• Financing
Principles
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Higher level of ambition
Participatory and consultative process
Scaling up of Poverty-reducing investments
Policy Coherence
Capacity Strengthening for effective planning,
implementation and monitoring
• Evidence-based investments and institutional
development process
• Longer-term frameworks beyond 2015 But
grounded in 3-5 Year PRS.
• More Outcome/ Results-Based Monitoring
Systems.
Process
• Review of long-term national vision (2020/2030,
etc.) context for MDG plan to 2015 and through
inclusive participatory processes.
• Setting a baseline and adjusting MDG targets to
national context: poverty mapping, statistical
analysis, previous plans, strategies and studies
• Establish macroeconomic framework and
investment priorities in ten-year framework of
action, based on bottom-up Needs Assessment,
capacity assessments, and policy scenarios.
• Full consideration of cross-sector policies
and investments – gender, energy and
environment, HIV/AIDs.
• Full consideration of sub-national and
community based investments and capacity
needs.
• Policy options
• Elaboration of 3-5 year MDG-based NDSes
• Elaboration of monitoring and accountability
systems and capacities
• Financing/Realism.
– Domestic
– Foreign/External
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Debt Relief
ODA
Private Capital
Remmittances
TOTAL COMMITMENT TO
IMPLEMENTATION!
Next Steps
• Adapt the techniques learnt here to national
specifics
• Find appropriate entry points into your planning
process for the Needs Assessment
– Keep in mind the end-2006 World Summit Deadline
• Undertake the Needs Assessment Exercise
• Increase in-country capacity on the NA
techniques by having national training workshops.
UNDP can offer backstopping support