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BDF 2004
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BDF 2002
Background Papers
Status of Governance Reforms 2002 - 2004
[Doc File, 70 kb]
Session 2: Promoting Good Governance and Human Security
[Doc File, 42 kb]
 Key issues:
    - Transparency and Accountability
    - Justice Sector Reform & Human Security
    - Inclusive Political Processes
    - Elections and Decentralization
Session 3: Enhancing Partnerships Between Government and NGOs
[Doc File, 34 kb]
 Key issues:
    - Recognising the different roles of NGOs in achieving MDG and PRSP goals
    - Fostering an enabling environment for NGOs including a) due process and b) regulation
    - Effective Consultations
Session 4: Improving Human Development Outcomes
[Doc File, 37 kb]
 Key issues:
    - Millennium Development Goals
    - Gender based violence
    - Women and the economy
Session 4: Improving Human Development Outcomes - Education
[Doc File, 45 kb]
 Key issues:
    - Revisiting international and national commitments
    - Increased collaboration and cooperation
    - Ensuring good governance
Session 4: Improving Human Development Outcomes - Health
[Doc File, 29 kb]
 Key issues:
    - Adequacy of HNPSP to achieve MDGs in Health, Strengthening Financial Management and Dealing with Audit Objections
    - Tackling Inequality in Access to Health Services by the Poor
    - The Need to Engage the Private Sector and Non-government Providers
    - Stimulating Demand as Well as Improving the Quality and Supply of Services
Session 4: Improving Human Development Outcomes - Food Security and Nutrition
[Doc File, 32 kb]

 Key issues:
    - Enhanced inter-ministerial co-ordination to deliver food security and nutrition goals of the IPRSP
    - Further gender analysis to identify the different causes and impacts of food insecurity and malnutrition for women and men
    - Malnutrition is not clinically solvable, it has to be addressed through policies and programmes focusing on income enhancement (including employment creation and pro-poor economic growth), agriculture, water and sanitation, health, education, social welfare and food sectors
    - The IPRSP paid inadequate attention to urban poverty; strategies are required to address the food security and nutrition needs of the urban poor
Session 5: Improving Trade and Investment Climate
[Doc File, 47 kb]
 Key issues:
    - Post MFA-Strategy
    - Investment & Regulatory Climate for Business
    - Privatisation/ SOE reform
    - Financial Sector
    - Poor Law & Order Situation and Confrontational Politics
Session 6: Providing the Infrastructure to Support Growth and Development
[Doc File, 35 kb]
 Key issues:
    - A Transport Policy, Linking Transport Needs to Poverty Reduction
    - Maintain the Transport Infrastructure Assets
    - Promote Faster Development of the Power Sector for Industry, Agriculture, Services, and Households
    - Gas Sector Reform
    - Regional Energy Cooperation
Session 7: Aid Governance and Implementation of Development Programs
[Doc File, 36 kb]
 Key issues:
    - Audit Working Group
    - Procurement Working Group
    - Training policy Working Group
    - Project Simplification
    - Process Issues

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