However, the effectiveness of PRSPs in driving policy is questionable as they can have a tenuous relationship with budgetary allocations and regulation of government performance.
PRSPs are at the centre of the new aid environment which seeks to build partner countries’ policy ownership and institutional capacity.
It argues that donor countries should promote participatory consultations and national ownership of anti-exclusion policies in PRSPs, while monitoring the use of new funding instruments to encourage action on exclusion. To what extent have Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) addressed exclusion issues? How can the new aid modalities be used to encourage anti-exclusion policies in the developing world? This paper from the Overseas Development Institute surveys PRSPs worldwide to ascertain the responsiveness of the new aid modalities to excluded groups.
