1. Environment in PRSPs & PRSCs
Laura Tlaiye
Environment Department
World Bank
Experiences from the PRSP Process
September 29, 2005

2. Outline Why bother? 2. Environment in PRSPs and PRSCs
3. Recommendations

3. Do PRSPs really matter? Process builds expectations & accountability
PRSPs include targets, indicators, timetables
Progress reports
Basis for PRSCs & donor coordination

4. PRSPs: Method PRSPs in 53 countries (end FY04)
Environment scored on 17 criteria
Scale 0 to 3 (0 = no mention; 3 = good practice)
Unweighted average used

5. PRSPs: Findings
Wide variation across countries in average score: 0.3 to 2.4
Average score for all countries: 1.4
Full PRSPs improve significantly over interim

6. High Scoring PRSPs Zambia Ghana Cambodia Mozambique Sri Lanka Yemen
Honduras
Nicaragua
Bolivia
Azerbaijan

7. The Cambodia PRSP Significant attention to NR degradation
Explicit recognition of poverty-environment links
Vulnerability to natural hazards in focus
Emphasis on empowerment of communities for NRM
Detailed program for investment in environmental management

8. PRSCs: Method 21 PRSCs reviewed Loan range: $18-250 m; Average: $ 90 m
Rating on same scale as PRSPs
Only on responses (5 variables) + process (1 variable) + context variable

9. PRSCs: Findings Wide range in scores: 0.7-2.7
Average score for all countries: 1.4
Top score: Benin
Too early to determine trend

10. Benin PRSC
Specific emphasis on forestry (annexes on environmental topics)
Multi-donor support very explicit
Attempts to include environment in budget process
Specific monitoring activities identified

11. Recommendations Serve as facilitator for mainstreaming
Draw on previous analytical work, incl. NEAPs
Integrate MDG7
Include domestic environmental constituency
Progress Reports should follow up
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT REFORMS:
1. Typically two objectives:
-Integrating environment in key sectors of the economy
-Improving efficiency and effectiveness of environmental management
2. Examples of sectors:
-Mexico: Energy, Water, Forests, Tourism
-Brazil: Banking, Sanitation, Chemicals
3. Programmatic Design

12. Future Outlook Shift is needed:
Environmental impacts of individual reforms
building national capacity to manage potential effects
Increasing emphasis on institutions, governance, and participation
How Can We Help Low-Income Countries Move in that Direction?
1. Support countries to use tools that emphasize both analytical work and participatory techniques
2. Support monitoring and outcomes-focus
3. Support institutional analyses to identify how country processes can more effectively learn from and use the tools above in decision-making
More holistic approach that brings in institutional and governance dimensions into SEA methodology