Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF), to which they are linked were born out of a crisis of criticism affecting the World Bank and the IMF (International Monetary Fund). The success of Jubille 200 and public demands for rapid movement towards thir world debt cancellation were accompanied by calls for effective social conditionality on the use of the resources to be released.
In this book World Vision takes a look at Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs). Starting from a position of supporting PRSPs and constructively engaging with the process, World Vision undertakes an analysis of their own experience and uncovers the frustrations that have been felt by many of those involved. The following is covered in the six chapters of the book:
" Making PRSPs Work: Can Rhetoric and Reality Coincide?
" All For Naught? An Analysis of Senegal's PRSP Process
" Working Towards an Ethiopian PRSP