The second generation of PRSs will need to address structural constraints to poverty reduction founded on innovative strategies for wealth creation.

Use of indigenous knowledge in poverty reduction strategies.

The CPD was fully linked to the PRSP and was largely financed through the PRSP mechanism.

Poverty reduction strategies (PRSPs) should be linked to the trade agenda.

Poverty reduction strategies (PRSs) should integrate economic, social and environmental aspects of sustainable development.

The quality of CCAs and UNDAFs is now overseen by the regional directors of agencies working together at the country level and coordinated on a rotational basis by one of the agencies.

This creates a risk that poverty reduction strategies aimed at these peoples will fail.

1.6 Poverty reduction strategies and sector wide approaches to reflect gender equality commitments

PRSs and national development plans have been useful instruments in mobilizing resources.

Goals 3 to 8 will be addressed through indigenous approaches to cultural diversity, traditional knowledge and human rights this applies equally to Millennium Development Goals country reports and poverty reduction strategy papers.

The recent session of the Commission explored ways of strengthening within the PRSs, growth, employment creation and poverty reduction.

To empower social partners to influence the drafting and implementation of poverty reduction strategies through social dialogue.

However, according to ECA, the PRSs have not been underpinned by comprehensive growth strategies and have not had enough focus on the Millennium Development Goals.

Young people urge their Governments to cooperate with them in developing poverty elimination policies, including the development and implementation of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers.

Youth should be mainstreamed into poverty reduction strategies and young people must be consulted on policy relating to those strategies.

In recognition of that fact, the poverty reduction and economic growth strategies put in place by the Malawian Government have incorporated youth programmes.

The meeting extended the debate to the national and regional levels and identified actions to be carried out in the framework of strategies combating poverty, mainly Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs)

The meeting extended the debate to the national and regional levels and identified actions to be carried out in the framework of strategies combating poverty, mainly through the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers

It is important that poverty reduction strategies and national sustainable development strategies processes remain participatory and nationally owned, with external development partners providing technical and financial support.

Poverty reduction strategies

Gender equality should be mainstreamed at all levels in strategies, policies and programmes, including in poverty reduction strategies.

UNIFEM supported the incorporation of gender equality concerns in poverty reduction strategies in Africa and the Caribbean.

Habitat programme managers work to promote mainstreaming of human settlements issues in the poverty reduction strategy papers and United Nations development assistance frameworks.

They may provide valuable evidence for policy dialogue and scaling up, including for use in PRSs and SWAps.

Coherence with national development plans or the poverty reduction strategy (PRS) in each country is a key issue in this quality assurance.

Poverty reduction

It has also put more emphasis on ensuring that employment and decent work goals are incorporated in both the formal and informal sectors and in poverty reduction strategies.

National economic development strategies were replaced with donor favored poverty reduction programs, such as land titling, micro credit, and bottom of the pyramid marketing to the poor.

(a) Developing, where appropriate, comprehensive armed violence prevention programmes integrated into national development strategies, including poverty reduction strategies

In 2002, OHCHR issued Draft Guidelines A Human Rights Approach to Poverty Reduction Strategies as a tool that would support countries in integrating human rights into national policies and strategies to reduce poverty.

Indigenous strategies to combat poverty

Measures to reduce poverty

Working with partners in United Nations country teams, in 2004 67 UNICEF country offices engaged with PRSs and other planning frameworks for economic growth and poverty reduction.

UNICEF advocated for increased investment for children and young people in PRSs, and action on these lines was taken by countries such as Azerbaijan and the United Republic of Tanzania.

One P 3 to provide expertise on rights sensitive poverty reduction strategies, rights based approaches to development and right to development

It was underlined that the internationally agreed development goals should form essential elements of national development strategies including poverty reduction strategies, where they exist.

(c) Increase attention to gender perspectives in all national planning and reporting processes and mechanisms, including Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and Millennium Development Goals reports

Strengthening statistical capacity is therefore essential to supporting the design, monitoring and evaluation of national development plans, including poverty reduction strategies, sector strategies, and the Millennium Development Goals.

(l) Integrate national forest programmes, or other strategies for sustainable forest management, as referred to in paragraph 6 (a) above, into national strategies for sustainable development, relevant national action plans and poverty reduction strategies

He recalled the Working Group's recommendations on housing, adopted at its fourth session, and stressed that housing development should be an integrated part of poverty reduction and good governance strategies.

The representatives of Burkina Faso and Ghana stated that the programmes in their respective countries were consistent with national policies and priorities, and particularly aligned with the PRSs.

Reducing poverty and the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger

Its technology has been specifically designed to support Governments in this monitoring work, and it can also be adapted to include additional user defined indicators linked to national monitoring frameworks such as PRSs.

Almost all the recent national plans of action on children foresee the need to review national legislation in relation to the provisions of the Convention, and PRSs are increasingly recognizing elements of the Convention as well.

Children and young people played substantial roles in the preparation of most national plans of action for children prepared in 2004, but could be much more active in the preparation of PRSs.