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Statement
on linking Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) & Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs)
African
Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD)
June 07, 2006
The African Forum
and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD) will hold a High Level Consultative
Meeting on macroeconomic policy options in sub-Saharan Africa: Linking
Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs) in Lusaka, Zambia, on 8 and 9 June 2006.
This meeting will
be open to a specific spectrum of civil society organisations; government
officials and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) country
representatives engaged in implementing both PRSPs and MDGs.
The main objective
of the consultative meeting is to explore the key challenges and policy
discrepancies surrounding the implementation of PRSPs, which compromises
the achievement of MDGs at national level. Specifically, the meeting aims
at the following:
- To develop an agenda
based on the research outcomes to influence the PRS/MDG harmonisation
process
- To deepen discussions
on how negative effects arising from the policy incoherence in the PRS-MDG
linkage can be minimised for increased pro-poor growth.
- To use the outcome
of the meeting for initiating dialogue with the World Bank and International
Monetary Fund (IMF) on the issues of PRS/MDG harmonisation at the Annual
Meeting of the Bretton Woods Institutions in Singapore, in September
2006.
Deliberations at the
consultation will be informed by research findings as well as expert background
paper presentations which will set out the context and relevant agenda
issues of both substance and process affecting the policy coherence and
harmonisation process of the MDG/PRS process. The research findings and
the background paper will be distributed well in advance before the workshop.
In response to the
lack of harmony in the two frameworks AFRODAD has commissioned five country
case studies in five African countries (Zambia, Ethiopia, Mali, Senegal
and Uganda) to help examine how PRSPs and MDGs are working at national
level as tools for development and poverty reduction. The studies have
sought to highlight how the various stakeholders have interacted and shared
ideas and resources at national level regarding the PRSPs and MDGs. Furthermore,
they have sought to show how governments and donors have mobilized and
allocated resources for the attainment of MDGs against the background
of having PRSPs as the tool of implementation.
Participation
Participation
in the consultation is open to African civil society organisations (CSOs),
African governments and key UN country agencies. The convening organisations
will arrange for the participation of suitable background information or
presentations to inform the deliberations of the consultation.
Expected outcomes
The participants
are expected to use the opportunity of the consultation to expose issues
of more direct relevance to their respective national situations or thematic
specialties.
The outcome of the
discussions will inform the synthesis report as adopted for presentation
at a side event at the Bretton Woods annual meeting.
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