Cover -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Introduction -- I. Diagnosing Poverty -- 1.1. Financial profile of poverty -- 1.2. Poverty according to area of residence -- 1.3. Poverty and access to education -- 1.4. Poverty and access to health care services -- 1.5. Poverty and AIDS: -- 1.6. Poverty and access to socio-economic infrastructure -- 1.6.1. Poverty and access to drinking water -- 1.6.2. Poverty and access to energy services -- 1.6.3. Poverty and access to communication technologies -- 1.6.4. Poverty and access to public transportation services -- 1.6.5. Poverty and access to decent housing -- 1.6.6. Poverty and access to sanitation services -- 1.7. Poverty and employment -- 1.8. Poverty and agricultural activities -- 1.9. Poverty and food security -- 1.10. Poverty, gender and equity -- 1.11. Poverty and governance -- II. Overall Context, Lessons Learned from PRSP-I and Objectives -- 2.1. Political context -- 2.2. Economic context -- 2.3. Lessons to be drawn from the evaluation of PRSP-I -- 2.4. Implementation of the MDGs -- 2.5. Principal challenges of PRSP-2 -- 2.6. Participatory process -- 2.7. Objectives -- III. Improving Governance and Institutional and Human Capacity-Building -- 3.1. Improving political and democratic governance -- 3.1.1. Boosting the capacities of republican institutions -- 3.1.2. Promoting human rights -- 3.1.3. Preserving and consolidating stability and security -- 3.1.4. Promoting and strengthening civil society -- 3.1.5. Promote dialogue, strengthen the capacities of political parties and establish standards to govern the electoral process -- 3.2. Strengthening of economic governance -- 3.2.1. Strengthening of macroeconomic analytical and forecasting capabilities -- 3.2.2. Strengthening of strategic planning capabilities -- 3.2.3. Strengthening the ability to produce statistics.

3.2.4. Enhancing fiscal planning and management capabilities -- 3.3. Strengthening administrative governance -- 3.4. Improving local governance -- 3.5. Fighting corruption and impunity -- 3.6. Gender and equity -- IV. Accelerating Growth and Expanding Employment and Income Opportunities for All -- 4.1. Analysis of the current situation -- 4.1.1. Macroeconomic analysis -- 4.1.2. Sectoral analysis -- 4.2. Objectives and strategies -- 4.2.1. At the macroeconomic level -- 4.2.2. At the sectoral level -- V. Improved access to quality social services -- 5.1. Improving access to a quality education for all -- 5.1.1. Objectives -- 5.1.2. Strategies -- 5.2. Improvement of access to health and nutrition services, especially by the poor -- 5.2.1. Health and Nutrition -- 5.3. National Response to HIV/AIDS -- 5.4. Improvement of access to drinking water -- 5.5. Improvement of housing and sanitation services -- 5.6. Improvement of access to energy services by people in rural and peri-urban areas -- 5.7. Promotion of culture as a means of strengthening identity and national unity -- 5.8. Social protection -- VI. Implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the PRSP -- 6.1. Instruments and procedures for implementing the PRS: roles and responsibilities of the actors -- 6.1.1. State -- 6.1.2. Communities -- 6.1.3. Civil society organizations -- 6.1.4. Private Sector -- 6.1.5. Development Partners -- 6.1.6. Institutions of the Republic -- 6.2. Financing and costs of the PRS -- 6.2.1. Financing Strategies -- 6.2.2. Costs of the PRS -- 6.2.3. Risks related to PRS financing -- 6.3. Institutional framework for implementation -- 6.4. Monitoring and evaluation system -- 6.4.1. Implementation monitoring -- 6.4.2. Impact monitoring -- 6.4.3. Participatory monitoring -- 6.4.4. Evaluation of the PRS -- 6.5. Hypotheses and risks of implementation -- Annexes -- 1. LIST OF MAPS.

Map 0.1: Administrative map of Guinea -- Map 1.1: Incidence of poverty (P0) by administrative region -- Map 1.2: Incidence of poverty (P0) by prefecture -- Map 1.3: Incidence of poverty (P0) by sub-prefecture -- Map 1.4: Number of modern, functional water supply points per 1000 inhabitants -- Map 1.5: Availability of electricity in 2006 -- 2. LIST OF TABLES -- Table 1.1: Incidence of public spending on education -- Table 1.2: Weight of spending on education in household budgets -- Table 1.3: Economic and social development indicators: international comparison -- Table 1.4: Changes in development indicators in Guinea -- Table 1.5: Poverty indicators in Guinea: variations according to urban/rural residence / variations according administrative regions -- Table 2.1: Principal macroeconomic indicators -- Table 2.2: Evaluation of the Chances of Attaining the MDGs -- Table 2.3: Main objectives of the PRSP -- Table 4.1: Main macroeconomic outcomes (2002-2005) -- Table 4.2: Macroeconmics Objectives -- Table 4.3: Share of Priority Sectors in the National Development Budget 2001-04 ( percent) -- Table 4.4: Summary of the NLPDA (Agricultural Development Policy Letter) Plan for 2007-2010 -- Table 4.5: Overview of investment projects in the mining sector -- Table 6.1: PRS monitoring and evaluation indicators -- 3. LIST OF BOXES -- Box: 2.1: Principal lessons to be learned from implementation of PRSP-I -- Box: 2.2: The MDG by 2015 -- Box: 2.3: Coordination and links between the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper and the Emergency Minimum Program -- Box: 2.4: Overall Objective of the PRS -- Box: 5.1: Anti-malaria program indicators -- Box: 5.2: Objectives of the fight against HIV/AIDS.