In the late 1990s, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, under intense pressure to find ways to facilitate developing countries accumulated large amounts of debt, develop a way to them, offer a way to tie debt relief to their long-term goal of reducing poverty in the world . Assistance given the reduction of debt will be associated with the development of so-called Poverty Reduction Strategy Plan (PRSP), a plan on how the country will use the financial resources released by debt relief and increase economic growth and reduce the number of people in poverty. This case focuses on the development of such a plan in the West African country of Mauritania, mostly desert nation twice the size of France with a population of 2.6 million. In particular, in the case describes the problems faced by the government team charged with developing the PRSP, as faced with the mandate that the plan will be developed through a rigorous process of public participation. Democratic and just recently with a long history of military rule and ethnic and racial conflicts, Mauritania raises difficult challenges for those seeking to engage the public. Although the wave of non-governmental organizations was developed in the 1990s, not everyone believed or representative or legitimate. HKS Case Number 1623.0 "Hide
by Kitty Guckenberger, Sanjeev Khagram 23 pages. Publication Date: 01 Oct 2001. Prod. #: HKS171-PDF-ENG
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