In some PRSPs, where anti-exclusion policy is discussed strategically, there is insufficient detail on methods of policy implementation. However, some countries’ PRSPs incorporate anti-exclusion policies as instruments to reduce poverty and promote social cohesion.
The high investment costs of new aid modalities may deter governments from supporting the types of grassroots, anti-exclusion action previously undertaken. PRSPs’ poverty-reduction priorities may reduce commitment to exclusion issues. However, the effectiveness of PRSPs in driving policy is questionable as they can have a tenuous relationship with budgetary allocations and regulation of government performance. PRSPs are at the centre of the new aid environment which seeks to build partner countries’ policy ownership and institutional capacity.
It argues that donor countries should promote participatory consultations and national ownership of anti-exclusion policies in PRSPs, while monitoring the use of new funding instruments to encourage action on exclusion. To what extent have Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) addressed exclusion issues? How can the new aid modalities be used to encourage anti-exclusion policies in the developing world? This paper from the Overseas Development Institute surveys PRSPs worldwide to ascertain the responsiveness of the new aid modalities to excluded groups.
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