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Authors: Ssewakiryange,R.
Produced by: International Institute for Environment and Development (2005)
Uganda’s Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP) incorporates poor people’s voices and perspectives. This paper focuses on the lessons learnt in the implementation of the PEAP by using examples from the Ugandan participatory poverty assessment process.
Key recommendations based on lessons learned include:
- success of a partnership between civil society, government and other actors depends on each actor’s understanding of their role in the partnership
- mechanisms for sustained engagement of the poor and other actors in the process are still very weak, it is therefore important design ways to ensure continued engagement
- practitioners should ask themselves if empowerment of the poor is still a central objective of the poverty reduction strategy, and how it can be attained
- invest in innovative ways of spending more in poverty reduction areas without expanding the debt volume
- align monitoring frameworks to enhance coordin ation and to allow for more inclusion of actors
Available online at: http://www.eldis.org/go/topics/resource-guides/conflict-and-security&id=39402&type=Document [3]
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