The Comprehensive Development Framework and Sector Wide Approaches in the Context of the Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy
Source: ISODEC
Sector-wide approaches (SWAPs) and the Comprehensive Development Framework (CDF) have become the institutional operationalisation of the “partnership†framework currently favoured as a means of delivering development assistance, representing a shift from a concern with preconditions to a concern with establishing common intent†reflected in a shared and coherent policy framework and POW led by the GOG in contrast with the top-down “conditionalityâ€. The central goal of the partnership framework is to promote country ownership of policies and programmes as a prerequisite for sustaining reform through better coordination and better management of resources. Ghana was one of eleven countries to pilot the CDF.
The paper provides an overview of the problems associated with SWAps, argues that the links between the GPRS, the CDF and programmes of the MDA remain tenuous and recommends that linkages between sectoral programmes and the Medium erm Expenditure Framework be strengthened.
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