Ghana: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Annual Progress Report : Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy 2003 : Annual Progress Report

The Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy (GPRS) is the key development policy framework for the country. The implementation of the GPRS, which began in 2002, has been geared towards achieving the medium term priorities of the Government. With an increased awareness of the importance of the GPRS, it has been used to inform all key policy and budgetary decisions both at the national and the district levels. The Annual Progress Report (APR) provides a framework for the systematic review of the GPRS programmes and projects implementation and their impacts on the socio-economic development of the country for the year.
Given the significant resources required to fund the GPRS, the Government has prioritised the GPRS through the Medium Term Priorities (MTPs), which have been used to inform the budget. The APR uses MTP’s and the relevant 52 indicators identified in the GPRS M&E Plan as its main frame of reference. The APR also comments on the status of the GPRS-based triggers and targets for assessing performance in the Donor support programmes such as the Poverty Reduction Support Credit (PRSC), the Multi Donor Budget Support (MDBS), the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF), and for meeting the floating HIPC
completion point. In addition the APR provides an assessment of our performance in achieving the Millennium Development Goals. While the triggers and targets may be specific to funding programmes they are essentially monitoring tools for assessing the GPRS implementation process, so monitoring them are as important to the Government of Ghana as they are to the relevant Development Partners.

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