DFID Public Service Agreement 2003-2006
16 July 2002
Aim: Eliminate poverty in poorer
countries in particular through achievement by 2015
of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs):
- Eradication of extreme poverty and hunger
- Achievement of universal primary
education
- Promotion of gender equality and empowerment
of women
- Reduced child mortality
- Improved maternal health
- Combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
- Ensuring environmental sustainability
- A global partnership for development
Objective I: Reduce poverty in
Sub-Saharan Africa
Target 1: Progress towards the MDGs in 16
key countries demonstrated by:
- a sustainable reduction in the proportion of
people living in poverty from 48% across the
entire region;
- an increase in primary school enrolment from
58% to 72% and an increase in the ratio of girls
to boys enrolled in primary school from 89% to
96%;
- a reduction in under-5 mortality rates for
girls and boys from 158 per 1000 live births to
139 per 1000; and an increase in the proportion
of births assisted by skilled birth attendants
from 49% to 67%; a reduction in the proportion
of 15-24 year old pregnant women with HIV from
16%;
- improved effectiveness of the UK contribution
to conflict prevention and management as
demonstrated by a reduction in the number of
people whose lives are affected by violent
conflict and a reduction in potential sources of
future conflict, where the UK can make a
significant contribution. (Joint Target with FCO
and MOD); and
- effective implementation of the G8 Action Plan
for Africa in support of enhanced partnership at
the regional and country level.
Objective II: Reduce Poverty in
Asia
Target 2: Progress towards the MDGs in 4
key countries demonstrated by:
- a sustainable reduction in the proportion of
people living in poverty from 15% to 10% in East
Asia and the Pacific and 40% to 32% in South
Asia;
- an increase in gross primary school enrolment
from 95% to 100% and an increase in the ratio of
girls to boys enrolled in primary school from
87% to 94%;
- a reduction in under 5 mortality rates for
girls and boys from 92 per 1000 live births to
68 per 1000; and an increase in proportion of
births assisted by skilled birth attendants from
39% to 57%; and
- prevalence rates of HIV infection in
vulnerable groups being below 5%; and a
tuberculosis case detection rate above 70% and
cure treatment rate greater than 85% are
achieved.
Objective III: Reduce poverty in
Europe, Central Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean,
the Middle East and North Africa
Objective IV: Increase the impact
of key multilateral agencies in reducing poverty and
effective response to conflict and humanitarian
crises.
Target 3: Improved effectiveness of
international system as demonstrated by:
- a greater impact of EC external programmes on
poverty reduction, including through working for
agreement to increase the proportion of EC oda to
low income countries from 38% to 70%; and
- ensuring that three-quarters of all eligible HIPC
countries committed to poverty reduction receive
irrevocable debt relief by 2006 and work with
international partners to make progress towards the
United Nations 2015 Millennium Development Goals by
2006. (Joint target with HM Treasury);
Target 4: Secure agreement by 2005 to a
significant reduction in trade barriers leading to
improved trading opportunities for developing
countries. (Joint target with Department of Trade
& Industry & Foreign & Commonwealth Office)
Objective V: Develop evidence
based, innovative approaches to international
development.
Value for money.
Target 5: Increase the proportion of
DFID's bilateral programme going to low income
countries from 78% to 90% and a sustained increase
in the index of DFID's bilateral projects evaluated
as successful.
Who is responsible for delivery?
The Secretary of State for International Development is
responsible for the delivery of this PSA. The Secretary of
State for International Development is jointly responsible
for a number of targets in the PSA:
- with the Foreign
Secretary and Secretary of State for Defence for the target
on conflict prevention;
- with the Foreign Secretary and the
Secretary of State for Trade and Industry for the target on
trade; and
- with the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the debt
relief and Millennium Development Goals element of Target 3,
who also shares responsibility for agreed measures to
improve the effectiveness of the EC external programmes.
The
World Bank estimates that in 1999 300 million people in sub-Saharan Africa live on less than $1 a day.
The
16 key African countries chosen for the PSA are: Ethiopia, Democratic
Republic of Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique,
Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa,
Lesotho, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
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