Uganda

This Joint Staff Advisory Note discusses key priorities for strengthening Uganda’s Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP) and for ensuring its effective implementation. PEAP 2004 describes the participatory process underpinning the development of the PEAP strategy, provides a poverty diagnosis, and presents 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. It argues for a shift of the policy focus from recovery to sustainable growth and structural transformation, and presents specific government policies to accelerate poverty reduction.Millennium Development Goals;Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers;poverty reduction strategy, population growth, health care, poverty reduction strategy paper, service delivery, external debt, fiscal deficit, maternal mortality, fertility rate, population growth rates, fertility rates, family planning services, fertility, family planning, macroeconomic framework, children per woman, income distribution, fiscal policy, fiscal decentralization, household surveys, household survey, hiv/aids, gender inequality, implementation capacity, access to family planning services, poverty analysis, public health