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Supporting MDG-Based Poverty Reduction Strategies in Africa

UNDP & Millennium Project collaborate to offer integrated services for MDG-based PRSP preparation in Africa. Capacity building, policy options, local development emphasized.

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Supporting MDG-Based Poverty Reduction Strategies in Africa

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  1. Supporting countries in preparing MDG based poverty reduction strategiesAn integrated package of services for the Africa region

  2. The background • UNDP and the Millennium project to offer an integrated package to support preparation of MDG based PRSP’s • Offers a set of approaches that can be used by countries and adapted to their specific circumstances • In collaboration with UN agencies, funds, and programmes • Builds on UNDP experience in providing advisory services, poverty monitoring, widening of pro-poor policy options and formulating national PRS’s • Builds on the Millennium project Needs Assessments

  3. Strategic Objectives • Assist requesting countries in the preparation of MDG based PRS’s • Integrate this diagnostic and advisory work into the core work of the UN country teams • Mainstream capacity development knowledge and strategies into national dev plans and implementation

  4. Core principles • National ownership • Capacity focused • Demand based • Coordinated • Evidence based • Outcome based

  5. The components • MDG based investments and policy planning • Widening of policy options and choices • Capacity development –investing in national ownership and implementation

  6. Capacity 2015 –localizing the MDG’s • Global programme – localization arm for the integrated package • In Africa the focus is on local level capacity development for: • Local economic development • Local governance and administration • Service delivery

  7. Capacity 2015 Africa • Inclusive and knowledge based • Capacity development in participatory and integrated approaches • Information and learning network (ILN), including local level information systems (LIIS) • Learning partnerships eg. SEMCIT • Partnerships for action for individual MDG’s e.g. community action plans

  8. Learning partnership with SEMCIT • Tertiary agricultural education reform with a focus on MDG1 • Phase 1 - Established network • Transformation of existing universities – proposals for a pilot • A learning network that is part of the Capacity 2015 ILN

  9. Learning partnership with SEMCIT • Links pilot universities to local communities • Works with the communities on monitoring through the Local level information systems • Links to policy processes at the national and regional levels • Implementation in partnership with regional and international organizations

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