The PRSP presents a number of direct challenges to donors:

 Accepting a common poverty reduction framework (PRSP) means accepting other common practices, including policy design, financial reporting, performance monitoring, accounting and audit.
 The PRS process is first and foremost about the agreement between a government and its own stakeholders about what it will be held to account for delivering. Donors should therefore base their decisions to provide assistance on the credibility of those commitments.

 Donors’ partnership with government is a central matter.

 But partnership means sharing; sharing with government, CSOs, other donors, and IFIs