Use of indigenous knowledge in poverty reduction strategies.

Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers and the Millennium Development Goals

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

It also contributes to national and local capacity development strategies that are part of 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.

Protect the poor by integrating health dimensions in poverty reduction strategies

The World Bank and the IMF were currently undertaking a review of the PRSP process, and one of five areas covered in the review was the use of poverty reduction strategies as an accountability framework between countries and donors.

But since PRSPs were based on home grown, country based strategies, differences would persist.

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.

In the face of the feminization of poverty, it is critical that measures to combat gender inequalities should be mainstreamed into poverty reduction strategies.

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

Participation implies an active role in the design, implementation and monitoring of poverty reduction strategies.

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.

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Others suggested that the Fund's poverty reduction strategies and policy impact were models for replication.

The right to information deserves particular attention in the context of participation in poverty reduction strategies.

She stressed the need to develop a human rights framework to monitor and adjudicate poverty reduction strategies.

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.

Poverty reduction strategies

Poverty reduction

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.

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.

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

Brian Ngo (the World Bank), underlined the World Bank's interest in moving forward the human rights agenda and the central role of PRSPs in efforts to reduce poverty.

It is critical for poverty reduction strategies, anti poverty policies and rural development and land reform programmes to specifically address women's rights to adequate housing and land.

More needed to be done to mainstream biodiversity into sectoral policies and into poverty reduction strategies.

Measures to reduce poverty

(b) Poverty reduction

Rick Rowden (Action Aid USA) presented the difficulties and limits to influence poverty reduction policies through participation in the PRSP processes.

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 Special Rapporteur also stresses the importance of integrating women's human rights into poverty reduction strategies, anti poverty policies and rural development and land reform programmes.

Poverty reduction strategies normally include provisions for the involvement of major stakeholders in annual assessments and for public progress reports.

The Social Forum welcomes the Property Reduction Strategy review as a means to strengthen the accountability framework between domestic stakeholders.

The Indian Government had formulated several development strategies in the fields of poverty alleviation, demographics, education and health.

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.

The General Assembly refers to a variety of situations where national policies can be defined, including through such instruments as development plans, poverty reduction strategies (and poverty reduction strategy papers, where they exist).

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.