CMI REPORT
ACCOUNTING FOR POVERTY REDUCTION
R 2008: 15
systems and water management and sanitation, aimed at meeting the needs of production, marketing and rural processing. The Aide MĂŠmoire shows also some important areas where the performance in 2006 was poor . For this reason, in the recommendation for 2007 special attention should be given to issues as: a better understanding of the various manifestations of poverty and its distribution; the allocation of responsibilities and the poor management capacity and service delivery at central, provincial and district level; the citizen's rights of access to natural resources and of participation in their management; the salary reform and the increase of the internal revenue collection. Coordination and communication between stakeholders improved. One example is sector support: For the first time all the sectoral annual reviews were an integral part of the Joint Review, which allowed for an additional alignment of the dialogue processes, reviews and sector commitments with the Government's planning and budgeting cycle. Another example is the comprehensiveness of the budget . A few years ago, a large part of donor support was off-budget. Now the majority of funds to Government are shown in the budget and a growing percentage goes through the treasury. One of the challenges on the donor side is to be more reliable and predictable in the short and medium term. As a group, PAPs have been assessed as delivering ‘mixed performance', since individual performances varied quite considerably. The main area of progress concerned the utilisation of the Public Finance Management system of Government. Source: Executive Summary Joint Review 2007 (www.pap.org.mz)
Indicators (see separate file)
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