[EQ] Beyond the Numbers: Understanding the Institutions for Monitoring Poverty Reduction Strategies

Beyond the Numbers:
Understanding the Institutions for Monitoring Poverty Reduction Strategies

The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank

 

Available online PDF [260p.] at: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPAME/Resources/383220-1153403450741/0821364847.pdf

 

URL: http://go.worldbank.org/PPTOO2V1P0

“….This book concentrates on one of the cornerstones underpinning the new relationship: a monitoring system that guides the elaboration of the poverty reduction strategy, the design of policies, and the evaluation of the impacts.

It focuses specifically on what has proven to be one of the most difficult aspects in the design and implementation of monitoring systems: the institutional arrangements, that is, the formal and informal processes, procedures, rules, and mechanisms that bring monitoring activities into a coherent framework.

By drawing out the lessons and good practice from an analysis of 12 countries and proposing a diagnostic tool to assess country systems, this book equips policy makers and practitioners who struggle to design and run such systems and makes an important contribution to strengthening the effectiveness of development assistance and the quality of poverty reduction strategies…..”.

Full Text (1.62mb PDF)

Executive Summary (65kb PDF)

Part One:  Lessons from the Experiences of 12 Countries (31kb PDF)

1.       Expectations and Realities (70kb PDF)

2.       Organizing the Supply Side of PRS Monitoring (88 kb PDF)

3.       Making Use of PRS Monitoring (72kb PDF)

4.       Organizing Participation (45kb PDF)

5.       Conclusions of the Analysis (34kb PDF)

Part Two:  Diagnostic and Guidance Tools for the Practitioner (29kb PDF)

1.       Diagnostic Tool: The Institutional Dimension of PRS Monitoring Systems (84kb PDF)

Part Three:  Country Studies: Institutional Arrangements for PRS Monitoring Systems (35kb PDF)

1.       Albania (95kb PDF)

2.       Bolivia (85kb PDF)

3.       Guyana (75kb PDF)

4.       Honduras (83kb PDF)

5.       The Kyrgyz Republic (71kb PDF)

6.       Malawi (71kb PDF)

7.       Mali (81kb PDF)

8.       Mauritania (78kb PDF)

9.       Nicaragua (75kb PDF)

10.   Niger (74kb PDF)

11.   Tanzania (79kb PDF)

12.   Uganda (82kb PDF)

Bibliography (65kb PDF)

 

 

 

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