1. Comprehensive Development Framework and Poverty Reduction Strategies

2. CDF Comprehensive Development Framework
“The key point of the CDF:
it is a basis for bringing people together-not necessarily under World Bank leadership. In some cases the Bank will lead, some cases it will follow, some cases it will not be there.
- JDWolfensohn

3. CDF Comprehensive Development Framework
A set of principles to guide development and poverty reduction including provision of external assistance.

4. 4 Principles of the CDF
Long-term holistic vision of needs and solutions
Ownership by the country
Country-led partnership among internal and external actors
Focus on development results

5. Long-term holistic vision of needs and solutions
Principles of the CDF
Long-term holistic vision of needs and solutions
Basic understanding of opportunities
and problems facing the country including
government’s capacity limits
Shared vision (10-15 years)
Vision complemented by a strategy
Overall framework provides direction,
consistency and focus to long-term
processes

6. 2. Ownership by the country
Principles of the CDF
2. Ownership by the country
Government initiates the process
Key policy makers are intellectually convinced
Broad-based stakeholder participation (internal consultation and consensus)
Organizational capacity building

7. 3. Country-led partnership among internal and external actors
Principles of the CDF
3. Country-led partnership among internal and external actors
Strong partnership among stakeholders
Donor actions aligned to national strategy
Common procedures among development partners
Effective aid coordination

8. 4. Focus on development results
Principles of the CDF
4. Focus on development results
Contributes to the country’s vision
Considers the Millennium Development Goals
Concrete
Measurable

9. 4 Principles of the CDF
Long-term holistic vision of needs and solutions
Ownership by the country
Country-led partnership among internal and external actors
Focus on development results

10. POVERTY Environmental Aspects Economic Aspects
Holistic View of Poverty
Environmental Aspects
Economic Aspects
POVERTY
Policy & Institutional Aspects
Socio-cultural Aspects

11. Environmental Aspects Economic Aspects
Holistic View of Poverty
Environmental Aspects
Economic Aspects
Poverty Reduction Strategies
Policy & Institutional Aspects
Socio-cultural Aspects

12. Group work by region
Analyze the poverty issues in your regoin focusing on:
Environmental aspects
Economic aspects
Socio-cultural aspects
Policy-Institutional aspects
Show the interrelations of the aspects.
Present results (10min)