Republic of Madagascar and the IMF

Madagascar
Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
Prepared by the Republic of Madagascar
November 20, 2000

Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (I-PRSPs), prepared by member countries, summarize the current knowledge and assessment of a country's poverty situation, describe the existing poverty reduction strategy, identifies gaps in poverty data, diagnotics, and monitoring capacity, and lay out the process for addressing these gaps and producing a fully developed Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper in a participatory fashion. This country document is being made available on the IMF website by agreement with the member country as a service to users of the IMF website.

Introduction
    Economic and Social Background
    Pursuit and Improvement of the Current Actions.
    Participatory Process and Organisational Provisions

1. Characteristics of Poverty
   Assessment of Economic Performances
       Debt situation
   Poverty Analysis
   Monetary Poverty Analysis
   Aspect of Poverty in the Education Sector
   Aspect of Poverty in the Health Sector
   Access to Drinking Water and other Welfare Services
   Human Development Index
   Cultivation Conditions and Environment Degradation

2. Strategies for Poverty Reduction
   Overall Objectives
       Economic Objectives: Challenges in Growth and Investment
       Life Quality Objectives
   Strategy Axis
       Axis No 1: To improve the economic performances with the
         participation of the poor
       Axis No 2: To develop the basic essential services (education,
         health, and drinking water...) and to widen the security nets to
         benefit the most layers of the population
       Axis No 3: to implement an institutional framework favourable to
         economic and poverty reduction, and to build capacity in order
         to improve the governance the relations between the
         administration and administered

3. Strategy Implementation
   Programmes Helping Reach the Objectives of Strategy Axis No. 1
       Macro-economic Policy
       Increase in the Offer
       Agriculture and Environment
       Economic Infrastructures
       Legal Environment of the Business World and Social Laws
       Trade and Regional Integration
   Programmes Helping Reach the Objectives of Strategy Axis No. 2
       Actions in the Education sector
       Actions in the Health Sector
       Drinking Water and other Welfare Services
       Security Nets
   Institutional Development and Capacity Building
       The Development of Autonomous Province
       Building Capacity of the Essential State Services

4. Monitoring, Participatory Procedure, and Schedule
   A Deeper Knowledge of Poverty
   The Participatory process
       Principles and Objectives
       The Proceess Time Schedule

5. Financing Needs and Absorption Capacity
   Principles
   Schedule for the Use of IHIPC Resources

Appendices
    Appendix 1. Economic and Financial Indicators 1999–2003
    Appendix 2. Main Monitoring Indicators
    Appendix 3. Matrix of Measures for Improving the Implementation
      of Expenditures
    Appendix 4. Social Programmes and Indicators: Education Sector
    Appendix 5. Health Sector Plan of Action (nutrition, population
      and youth)
    Appendix 6. Table of Orientations, Strategic Axes and Rural
      Development Programmes
    Appendix 7. Synthesis of the Main Participatory Consultations
    Appendix 8. Poverty Assessment and Monitoring Plan in the
      Framework of the PRSP: Proposal of the National Institute of
      Statistics (INSTAT)