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  "title": "Uganda: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper: Joint Staff Advisory Note",
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  "summary": "This Joint Staff Advisory Note discusses key priorities for strengthening Uganda’s Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP) and for ensuring its effective implementation.",
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      "content": "- Strengthen the PEAP to ensure effective implementation (general priority stated in the note).\n- Accelerate poverty reduction through specific government policies presented in PEAP 2004.\n- Ensure alignment of sector plans, costing, and a result-oriented policy matrix with growth and poverty-reduction objectives."
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