Democratic Republic of the Congo: Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Preparation Status Report

IMF Staff Country Reports, August 29, 2003

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The paper describes implementation of activities under the interim poverty reduction strategy and progress toward elaboration of the poverty reduction strategy.
Institutional framework has been strengthened by the creation of the inter-ministerial committee on the implementation of the National Strategy for Poverty Reduction.
The goal is to identify priorities and strategies at the community level, and their capacity to operationalize sectoral and thematic poverty reduction strategies.
The macroeconomic and financial situation has been stabilized.
The poverty reduction strategy budget has been prepared on the basis of detailed cost estimates for each task.

Creation of an inter-ministerial committee for implementation of the National Strategy for Poverty Reduction.
Emphasis on identifying community-level priorities and strategies.
Focus on building capacity to operationalize sectoral and thematic poverty reduction strategies.

The macroeconomic and financial situation is reported as stabilized (no further numerical macroeconomic indicators provided in the source text).

The PRSP budget was prepared on the basis of detailed cost estimates for each task (no aggregate budget total given in the source text).

Subjects: Health; Institutional arrangements for revenue administration; Poverty; Poverty reduction strategy
Keywords: Congo; CR; governance; I-PRSP; I-PRSP implementation; ISCR; Poverty reduction strategy; PRSP budget; PRSP process; PRSP question; PRSP team