Beyond the Rhetoric: Mainstreaming Environmental Issues into Poverty Reduction Strategies: The Case of Ethiopia - Softcover

Persson, Atkeyelsh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3838311914 ISBN 13: 9783838311913

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

Since 1999, the World Bank & the International Monetary Fund encourage developing countries to prepare poverty reduction strategies (PRSs),which are nationally integrated strategies formulated through a participatory process & coordinated with donors. This book, therefore, aims to contribute to the development, implementation, monitoring & evaluation of effective PRS, especially the Sustainable Development & Poverty Reduction Programme of Ethiopia. With reference to existing studies, the book justifies the need for a national strategy for sustainable development (NSSD) & identifies the principles and criteria for evaluating such strategies in relation to environmental, social and economic integration; the nature of the policy processes; targeting & resourcing. It then explains that NSSD & PRS have common characteristics and hence the criteria for NSSD evaluation can also be used for PRS. Based on the analysis, recommendations on Ethiopia’s SDPRP 2002 have been made that could assist policy-makers, development workers and other concerned parties in their efforts to develop an effective sustainable development and poverty reduction strategies.

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About the Author

Atkeyelsh Persson, MSc in Environmental Management & Policy,and International Masters of Public Health, Lund University. Consultant, AU-ECA-AfDB Land Policy Initiative Secretariat.Many of her research findings on development issues have been disseminated at international workshops & published in accredited Scientific Journal.

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 3838311914
• ISBN 13: 9783838311913
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 120