## Uganda: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper: Joint Staff Advisory Note

_IMF Staff Country Reports, September 6, 2005_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: September 6, 2005
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451838787.002

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### Summary
- Discusses key priorities for strengthening Uganda’s Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP) and for ensuring its effective implementation.
- Describes PEAP 2004 as presenting:
  - the participatory process underpinning the development of the PEAP strategy,
  - a poverty diagnosis,
  - policy measures, sector plans, costing, and a result-oriented policy matrix for sustainable economic growth and poverty reduction over the 2004/05–2007/08 period.
- Argues for a shift of the policy focus from recovery to sustainable growth and structural transformation.
- Presents specific government policies to accelerate poverty reduction.

### Major findings and focus areas
- PEAP 2004 provides a participatory foundation for strategy development.
- PEAP 2004 includes a poverty diagnosis and policy measures linked to sector plans and costing.
- Emphasis on result-oriented policy matrix for the 2004/05–2007/08 period.
- Policy priority shift recommended: from recovery to sustainable growth and structural transformation.

### Policy recommendations and implementation priorities
- Strengthen the PEAP to ensure effective implementation (general priority stated in the note).
- Accelerate poverty reduction through specific government policies presented in PEAP 2004.
- Ensure alignment of sector plans, costing, and a result-oriented policy matrix with growth and poverty-reduction objectives.

### Thematic scope
- Education
- Health
- Infrastructure
- Poverty
- Poverty reduction
- Poverty reduction strategy

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