The 1997 White Paper: powerful poverty commitment, imprecise operational strategy
✍ Scribed by Aidan Cox; John Healey
- Book ID
- 101287791
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 103 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0954-1748
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✦ Synopsis
The White Paper signals a clear, strong and comprehensive commitment by the British government to use its aid and in¯uence to help poor people. It spells out a range of speci®c aims to bene®t and empower the poor and especially women. It endorses a new powerful concept of partnership with its own commitments to partners and it speci®es the implications of any lack of commitment by them to poverty reduction. Unfortunately there is no systematic exposition of the changes in policies required to achieve pro-poor growth; there are ambiguities about targeting and no lessons are drawn about what has worked well in its own past interventions. DFID appears to want to `go it alone' with little indication of the collective eorts (including other donors) required to achieve these ambitious goals. Nevertheless, the agency has organizational strengths to achieve its new strategy which gives con®dence that more precise operational strategies will be devised and pursued with conviction in the coming years.