Description: Mainstreaming Empowerment in the Bolivia PRSP Monitoring and Evaluation at the Municipal Level

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Mainstreaming Empowerment in the Bolivia PRSP Monitoring and Evaluation at the Municipal Level

Since the early 1990s, the Bolivian government has begun a transition towards a more decentralized form of government. As a result, the country's 324 municipalities have greater autonomy and responsibilities and several social control mechanis...

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Main Authors:	John-Abraham, Indu, Torres, Magüi Moreno
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	DECENTRALIZATION SOCIAL CONTROL LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY POVERTY MUNICIPAL ACCOUNTING POVERTY MITIGATION PROJECTS EDUCATION HEALTH SANITATION RISK MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTABILITY BUDGET PRIORITIES CAPACITY BUILDING CIVIL SOCIETY DATA COLLECTION DATA ENTRY DECENTRALIZATION PROCESS DEVELOPMENT GOALS DONOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC ANALYSIS EVALUATING POVERTY EXPENDITURES GOVERNMENT AGENCIES HUMAN RESOURCES INFORMATION SYSTEMS INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT LEGAL FRAMEWORK LOCAL GOVERNMENT LOCAL GOVERNMENTS LOCAL LEVEL LOCAL LEVELS MONITORING MECHANISMS MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENTS MUNICIPALITY PARTICIPATORY APPROACH PARTICIPATORY APPROACHES PARTICIPATORY PROCESSES PERFORMANCE INDICATORS POLICY ACTIONS POLITICIANS POVERTY REDUCTION PUBLIC EXPENDITURE PUBLIC INTERVENTIONS PUBLIC MANAGEMENT PUBLIC POLICIES PUBLIC POLICY PUBLIC SECTOR REPRESENTATIVES RESOURCE ALLOCATIONS RISK MANAGEMENT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TRANSPARENCY
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/02/4295363/mainstreaming-empowerment-bolivia-prsp-monitoring-evaluation-municipal-level http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10365

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Summary:	Since the early 1990s, the Bolivian government has begun a transition towards a more decentralized form of government. As a result, the country's 324 municipalities have greater autonomy and responsibilities and several social control mechanisms have been created to promote more participation in local government and more accountability. In this context, the Bolivian government developed a Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) in May 2001, which is being revised in 2003. The PRSP outlines an approach to increased poverty related spending through investments in education, health and sanitation, and risk management. These expenditures will be planned and executed largely at the municipal level. The Popular Participation Law of 1994 established municipal oversight committees (comit?s de vigilancia) to help evaluate the impact of public policies and spending. However, without municipal information systems, the oversight committees and local governments lack the tools and resources necessary to fulfill their monitoring responsibilities.