Module 5 Integrating Cross Cutting Issues in PRSPs

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Module 5Integrating Cross Cutting Issues in PRSPs

• Introduce the essence and characteristics of
  Cross Cutting Issues (gender and environment) and
  its importance for pro-poor development
• Introduce the empirical findings of the
  integration of gender and environment in PRSPs
• Initiate a sharing of experiences and good
  practices

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PROTECTIVE
Security
Vulnerability
POLITICAL
ECONOMIC
Power
Consumption
GENDER
Influence
Income
Freedom
Assets
Environment
HUMAN
SOCIO-
Health
CULTURAL
Education
Status
Fertility
Dignity
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Cross Cutting Issues

• Globalisation and Information explosion is
  increasing policy interdependency
• Organisational consequences
• institutional structures, roles etc.
• Need for integration rather than coordination
• Policy implementation
• accountability procedures, participatory policy
  design, continuous policy adjustment

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Why Mainstreaming?

• Opening process to environmental/gender voices
• Gathering data on environmental/gender issues
• Analyzing environmental/gender links to poverty
• Prioritizing actions with environment/gender in
  mind
• Monitoring outcome with environment/gender in mind

Can the PRS process be the mechanism by which cc
issues are mainstreamed into central policy
making?
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Environment and Poverty

• Land use
• Water
• Air
• Biodiversity and climate change

• Issues in focus
• Causal links

Who holds the knowledge? How is it communicated?

• Natural resource degradation and poverty
• Environmental health
• Vulnerability
• Property Rights
• Incentives
• Empowerment
• Gender Environment

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Environment and PovertyPolicy Responses

• Environmental management capacity
• Investment in natural capital
• Investment in man made capital
• Monitoring the natural resource outcomes
• Monitoring the human resource outcomes

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Environment in the PRSP
Where do donors come in and how?
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Environment and PovertyIntegration in PRSPs

• Review of 40 PRSPs by WB Environment Department
  (Bojö/Reddy)
• Assessment based on 17 criteria
• Problems opportunities described
• Poverty-environment links analyzed
• Environmentally relevant actions
• Ranking from 0 to 3

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Environment and PovertyIntegration in PRSPs

• Considerable variation across countries
• Low average score
• Full PRSPs ranking better than I-PRSPs
• Good practices do exist

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Gender and Poverty

• Direct links
• access to security
• access to resources
• access to opportunities
• Indirect links
• social, economic and political organisation
  affecting knowledge and participation in public
  processes
• Sectoral dimensions
• agriculture, credit, education, health, urban
  development, ...

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Gender and Poverty

• Rationale for integrating gender
• equity
• women have higher mortality rates
• women work longer
• women are generally underrepresented
• women have lower access to resources
• efficiency
• women's reduced contribution to production/income
  hinders economic growth and poverty reduction

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Gender in the PRSP
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Gender and Poverty Integration in PRSPs

• The World Bank Gender Division investigated 19
  PRSPs (15 Interim and 4 full)
• Looks at
• Gender and the consultation process
• Gender and Poverty Diagnosis
• Gender and Public Action
• Gender and targets/monitoring

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Gender and Poverty Integration in PRSPs
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Gender and Poverty Integration in PRSPs
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What about National Ownership?

• We have agreed within DAC
• Issues of substantial importance to development
  agency constituencies must be integrated into
  policy dialogue without imposing an
  externally-driven agenda
• Genuine dialogue between central government and
  other parts of society should be facilitated in
  ways that do not undermine the legitimacy of
  partners governments, the role of parliament and
  other key democratic institutions
• Development effectiveness strengthens the need
  for a more selective, more strategic approach to
  aid allocations

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Questions for reflection

• 1. Can ordinary women, men and youth own the PRS
  and commit to its implementation?
• 2. Can gender be mainstreamed in such a manner
  that gender is treated as a variable for
  development?
• 3. How can donors play a key role in integrating
  gender in PRS?