Abstract:
The Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP) is Uganda's national develcpment framework and
medium term planning tool, prepared in 1997 through wide stake- oldEr consultations and
pa-ticipation. The PEAP, which is also the country's Poverty Reduction St -ategy Paper (PF:SP),
guides the formulation of government policy and implementation of p-og-arimes through sector
wiJe approaches to planning and a decentralized governance system. The expend ture
implications of the PEAP are translated into concrete spending decision 5 tirough the Mecium
Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and annual budgets. The Pf_AP 2001 that is due for
revision this year (2003), is structured around four overarching pillars