Africa: Reducing poverty or repeating mistakes?

This report, criticising the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers from a civil society perspective, is produced by the Swedish People Participating in Poverty Reduction (PPPR) programme. The report outlines the perspectives, positions and recommendations of PPPR partners in relation to PRSP process, PRSP policy contents, and implementation and monitoring of PRSPs. The detailed and wide-ranging critique given and the recommendations made are directed towards national governments, donors and civil society itself. The document is introduced with a 6 pages long executive summary that outlines the main findings and recommendations within the three main areas of PRSP processes that provides the structure of the report. The report is the result of a desk research study involving partner NGOs linked to the PPPR project in the following countries: Burkina Faso, Zambia, Mozambique, Cambodia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Honduras, Bolivia and Nicaragua as well as AFRODAD, an organisation working at the continental level.