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Title: INFLUENCING POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLANS


1
INFLUENCING POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES AND
NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLANS A ZAMBIAN CIVIL
SOCIETY EXPERIENCE By Miss. Ivy Mutwale, CSPR

2
WHAT IS CSPR?
  • Network of CSOs working together for poverty
    eradication
  • Network came together in 2000 when Zambia was
    required to prepare PRSP
  • Membership organization comprising over a hundred
    CSOs in six provinces Lusaka, Luapula, Western,
    N/Western, Southern and Eastern

3
CSPR Cont.
  • Main programmes Research and Policy Analysis,
    Information Management Networking (IMN), Civic
    Engagement and Advocacy (CEA) and Governance and
    Institutional Development (GID)
  • Members have independent activities aside of
    Network activities strength in joint voice on
    poverty issues
  • One core activity of the CSPR is to monitor the
    implementation of the Pro-Poor National
    Development and advocacy around this

4
Our Mission To actively and effectively
contribute to poverty eradication and pro-poor
development in Zambia through advocacy for
responsive policy formulation and implementation,
promotion of civic engagement in development
processes, production of poverty related evidence
and data and provision of a platform for
information and knowledge sharing at local,
district, national and international levels.
  • Our Vision for CSPR A leading Civil Society
    Network contributing to pro-poor development at
    all levels in Zambia
  • Our Vision for Zambia A Zambia in which all
    Zambians enjoy all basic needs

5
CSPR AT WORK
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A Governments Invitation to the Table A Civil
Society Engagement Strategy
  • PRSP IMPLEMENTATION
  • Notable Achievements include
  • relevant guiding document for poverty reduction
  • attempt to match resources for development
  • participatory process
  • Notable problems include
  • Debt repayments HIPC insufficient
  • Donors non fulfillment of pledges
  • Competing demands on domestic revenue. Etc
  • Inadequate political will
  • 2004 was to be final year of 1st PRSP extended
    to 2005. PRSP incorporated in the TNDP i.e.
    PRSP/TNDP
  • 2005 PRSP review and new PRSP linked to NDP
  • PRSP FORMULATION
  • Government consultations through sector working
    groups
  • Civil society consultations through thematic
    groups
  • CSPR report - A PRSP for Zambia A civil
    society perspective
  • Final PRSP (launched in 2002) reflects a fairly
    good amount of civil society concerns for
    fighting poverty a good starting point


7
Monitoring Evaluating the PRSP
  • Q Is the PRSP achieving what it set out to
    achieve?
  • Very Important part of the process
  • Why
  • Past experiences in programme implementation
    not good
  • Lack of effective monitoring can result in low
    levels of implementation, wrong beneficiaries,
    undesired impacts, misallocation and misdirection
    of resources etc
  • How -
  • Expenditure tracking Monitoring the PRSP monies
  • Poverty Monitoring Monitoring the results of
    PRSP Implementation (output and impact).
  • Participatory approaches bringing on board the
    poor!! (civil society has a key role to play in
    Monitoring and advocacy around results of
    monitoring)

8
Critiques of PRSPs
  • Rushed during formulation and slow in
    implementation.
  • Capacities of implementers and SAGs need to be
    improved
  • Unpredictable resource environment
  • Same Macro framework underpinned by
    neo-liberalism (market prices, privatisation
    etc)
  • Still top-down rather than bottom up
  • Participation of non state actors is often
    limited
  • Participation of the poor (intended
    beneficiaries) tends to be through
    representatives.

9
Light at the end of the tunnel?
  • Generally PRSPs were received with some hope that
    they could actually reduce poverty.
  • Do Governments have the political will to use the
    PRSPs to actually benefit the poor or are PRSPs
    being used only for HIPC and donor support?
  • There is hope if donors fulfill their pledges,
    and on time
  • End of the tunnel will be dark if the IFI
    financing tools remain unchecked PRGF of IMF
    and PRSC of World Bank (a reformulation of
    discredited SAP policies?)
  • CSPRs advocacy is targeted at these issues

10
Towards a New Plan and a Civil Society
Process Civil society engagement
in the NDP process
  • April, 2005, govt roadmap for formulating FNDP
    presented to Civil Society.
  • July 2005, a national inception workshop
  • Thematic and provincial groups
  • August, 2005, Consensus Building Workshop
  • A Fifth National Development Plan for Zambia
    2006-2010 A Civil Society Perspective
    launched and presented to Government through the
    Ministry of Finance and the SAGs.
  • July, 2006, Government draft FNDP document
  • Civil Society Indaba held on 12th July, 2006
  • CS response to draft presented at the Government
    National Stakeholders Workshop held on 24th July

11
KEY OBSERVATIONS, ACHIEVEMENTS AREAS OF
IMPROVEMENT
  • Observations
  • need to show linkages with some key previous and
    on-going plans
  • Link the FNDP targets to those of the Millennium
    Development Goals (MDGs)
  • Specify further some broadly reflected strategies
  • draft plan did not incorporate the provincial
    recommendations
  • Monitoring and Evaluation institutional framework
    in the document does not explicitly show clear
    linkages from the sub-district structures
  • government must exhibit the highest show of
    political will

12
Areas of Improvement (i) should clearly state
the priority PRPs(ii) M and E institutional
framework should explicitly show clear linkages
from the sub-district (iv) align all existing
policies to the NDP
  • Achievements
  • process was consultative
  • concrete document to guide national development
  • monitoring framework outlined in the document
  • Inclusion of some relevant chapters e.g
    disabilities

13
ALIGNING NATIONAL PLANS TO MDGs
  • set of goals that can be achieved if a government
    invests in ensuring the fulfillment of the basic
    needs of its people
  • if realised, could put Zambia on the right path
    to the MDGs.
  • There is focus, agreement and endorsement
  • PRSP, TNDP and FNDP in Zambias case
    (short/medium term plans) are the operational
    framework for achieving the MDGs.
  • MDGs long term goals (2000-2015)
  • PRSPs strategies for countries to use as means
    to attaining the MDGs.

14
Link between MDGs and FNDP?
  • even though government alludes to the fact that
    they hope to move closer to achieving the MDGs by
    implementing the NDP, they do not show how they
    intend to do so
  • budget of the NDP falls far short of FNDP
  • FNDP budget to the social sector is estimated at
    800million dollars per year, while the MDGs
    costing study estimates that Zambia will need to
    spend 1.5 billion dollars per year on social
    sectors alone
  • deficit of about 700million dollars!
  • Need to ensure the estimate is based on MDG
    attainment

15
For Zambia to attain the MDGs
  • MDGising the National Policies
  • Increased Investments in infrastructure
  • Prudent Financial Management
  • Scaling of external assistance and fulfillment of
    the important international development compact
  • Donor Alignment and Conditionalities
  • need to triple up efforts if we are to attain
    the Goals by 2015

16
Conclusion
So we urgently need you to do what you do best
Political will shifts only if there is national
and local mobilization by the public, and only
when leaders are held accountable. What would
really make a difference is if, at the local
level, the Goals achieve a critical mass of
support and even become vote-getters. You can
and must help make that happen. If we do not,
millions of people will die, prematurely and
unnecessarily. Thatshould be a call to action.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan
  • People driven Planning and Budgeting Key to
    Pro-poor National Development!!
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