United Nations Development Programme for Community of Practice e-Discussion Members of UNDP's Poverty Reduction Practice Network selected pro-poor fiscal policies and the Millenium Development Goal-consistent medium term expenditure framework as priority areas deserving more attention from the network.
To minimize this risk, governments should adopt medium term expenditure frameworks that cover at least a two- to three-year period and budget for incentive schemes within these frameworks.
The IFIs and development partners supported several analytical works such as comprehensive studies on the sources of growth, analyses of poverty dynamics, and modelling work to align the priority medium term expenditure frameworks with the macroeconomic and budgetary frameworks.
On the other hand, it is widely accepted that many SSA countries lack the financial capacity themselves to build (or rebuild) sustainable public health systems, and are encumbered by "medium term expenditure frameworks", required by the international financial institutions, that restrict overall public sector salary spending.
The Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) for the new health plan drew heavily from the costing database.
The information collected in the IFE is used not only to produce sector analysis, such as the NHAs, but also for planning, since it is used for the Medium-term Expenditure Framework (MTEF), which forecasts future financial envelopes and expenditure.
A priority of the Girls Education Taskforcee of the Ministry of Education (MINEDUC), and defined in the FTI assessment, the campaign is now to be integrated in the country's three-year medium-term expenditure framework.
In this context, it should be noted that only 1 per cent of the health budget is spent directly on maternal and child health services (medium-term expenditure framework 2013/2014 to 2015/2016, Ministry of Finance).
In order to get a sample of districts illustrating these differences, guidance for the selection was provided by the Ministry of Health Directorate of Planning and Development after an extensive review of data from the health-management information system and the medium-term expenditure framework.
Bilateral donors and the International Financial Institutions often played a central technical and fiscal role in such situations including supporting the development of Poverty Reduction Strategy papers and medium-term expenditure frameworks.
