The Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (GPRSP) is a cross-sectoral national strategy paper of the Republic of Cape Verde. In the area of food security, the following objectives are considered: To promote the sustained development of the national agro-food system (increase of production/productivity and diversification), to ensure an adequate and permanent supply of food products to the population, by promoting the distribution and the commercialization of the agricultural products. To guarantee food availability and stability in the supply of the central and periphery markets, assuring the normal operation of the food markets and a management that involves the private commercial management in supplying the market. To improve the access to food and to basic social services by vulnerable groups and zones in the rural and urban areas. To Improve the means of prevention and management of crises in the framework of the food security system, implementing a system of information on food security that allows for anticipating crises and minimize their effect on the more vulnerable populations. The sustained management of food security requires the involvement of the internal and external partners, of the private sector, from the local to the entire civil society, in defining the guidelines and the objectives to be attained in the matter of food security, and for the technical and institutional capacity building for the various actors. Pillar 2: Promote competitiveness to foster economic growth and employment creation. The growth and poverty reduction strategy (GPRS) is comprehensive and covers all the macroeconomic policies (budgetary, monetary and exchange), and those of public management and good governance, such as the sectoral and macroeconomic policies, aimed at the poor population target groups. Thus, the GPRS aggregates, in an integrated form, both the sectoral programs and the macroeconomic program upon which it is based. It should be noted that the poverty reduction policies have as priority objective the reduction of absolute poverty, which is to say, to assure the reduction of essential needs for the poor. In this context, the poverty reduction strategy assumed by Cape Verde also integrates the notion of equity, to the extent that, by improving the lives of the poor, it promotes the creation of a more egalitarian distribution of resources. Such a strategy has a positive effect on economic growth and at the same time, on the incidence and the nature of poverty. Pillar 3 of GPRS develops and upgrades human capital Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Pillar 4 develops the infrastructures, promotes land use planning and protects the environment. A framework document establishes the Government’s priority objectives for economic growth and poverty reduction, the Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy has a strong link to: the public investment program, the privatization process, the fiscal policy and the education, health, agriculture, environment and social protection plans (6.31). Promote gender equality and empower women Gender equality is a fact with regards to primary education. Women are becoming increasingly more empowered, even though they continue to be more vulnerable than men when it comes to illiteracy and unemployment. Overall, significant progress has been made with regards to gender equality and empowerment of women. Female rights are formally established and the presence of women in State institutions (Parliament, Government) is constantly increasing (pag. 48). Pillar 5: Improves the effectiveness and sustainability of the social security system (pag. 75). s04 The development of the system requires the modernization of production technologies, application of ICTs in agriculture, and sophisticated irrigation systems. Pillar 3: Develop and upgrade human capital Upgrading human resources implies improving the education system and reinforcing professional training. Improving the education system means to expand attendance of kindergarten, instill quality at all levels of teaching, paying attention to the regional, social and gender asymmetries. Pillar 1: Promote good governance, reinforcing effectiveness and guaranteeing equity. Good governance facilitates ownership of the poverty reduction policy and increases the possibilities of its success. In effect, good governance reinforces the possibilities that the population, including the poor, will make itself heard, and incites the political class and the public decision-makers to take their aspirations into consideration (better access to education and to the health system, policies which favor job creation, etc.). Therefore, good governance facilitates the way out of poverty, reinforcing the State based on the rule of law and creating a transparent and predictable regulatory framework that encourages the spirit of initiative and the development of a dynamic private sector. In other words, good governance make it possible to improve the effectiveness of economic policies, including their effect on public expenditure as a function of the policy objectives, thus increasing the possibilities of success of measures to fight poverty. The functionality of the apparatus must facilitates the decision-making by the different intergovernmental institutions, organizations of the civil society and international agencies operating in the country. To reinforce the actors’ institutional capacity and promote a good management of the food security.
كابو فيردي · 2004-09-01