Contents -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- Introduction -- Background -- SGPRS - Progress and Challenges -- The NDP - A Review of the Poverty Reduction Strategy -- Chapter 1: Citizen Participation -- 1.1 The Will of the Country -- 1.2 The Participatory Process in the NDP Construction -- 1.3 Coordinating Sector Forums Process, and Harmonizing and Aligning Cooperation -- Chapter 2: Evolution of Poverty and NDP Goals -- 2.1 Evolution of Poverty -- 2.2 Objectives, Goals, and Indicators -- 2.3 Funding -- 2.4 A Plan to reduce inequality among Nicaraguans -- Chapter 3: Economic Growth for Poverty Reduction -- 3.1 Regulatory framework and paperwork procedures -- 3.2 Property rights -- 3.3 Financial services -- 3.4 Export promotion and attraction of investments -- 3.5 Increased productivity through the development of clusters -- 3.5.1 Tourism -- 3.5.2 Coffee -- 3.5.3 Beef and dairy products -- 3.5.4 Shrimp farming -- 3.5.5 Forestry and wood products -- 3.5.6 Light manufacture -- 3.5.7 Other products (oilseed, fruit, cocoa, plantains, and others) -- 3.6 Rural Development -- 3.7 The Development of a Special Region: the Caribbean Coast -- 3.8 Environmental Sustainability -- Chapter 4: Development of Human Capital and Social Protection -- 4.1 Education -- 4.2 Health and Nutrition -- 4.3 Training and Formation -- 4.4 Labor Sector -- 4.5 Social Protection -- 4.6 Social Security -- 4.7 Costs for the Development of Human Capital and Social Protection -- 4.8 Service Provider Centers (CPS): Improving the Cost-Effectiveness of the Policy -- Chapter 5: Public Investments for the Productive Development of Human Capital -- 5.1 Infrastructure for Development -- 5.2 The investment policy: economic growth and human capital development -- 5.2.1 Highways, rural roads, ports, and airports.

5.2.2 Social Infrastructure for the Development of Human Capital -- 5.2.3 Environmental Infrastructure -- 5.2.4 Energy -- 5.2.5 Systems for Promotion, Monitoring, and Evaluation -- 5.3 Total Cost for Productive and Social Infrastructure -- Chapter 6: Governance and State Reform -- 6.1 Governance for the 2001-2005 Period -- 6.2 The National System for Participation and the Pursuit of Concerted Agreements -- 6.3 Reform and Modernization of Public Administration -- 6.4 Decentralization -- 6.5 Other Institutional Reforms -- Chapter 7: Macroeconomic Program -- 7.1. Quantitative goals -- 7.2. PRGF Performance -- 7.3. Policy and Structural Reforms -- 7.4. Financing Public Spending -- 7.5. Prospects for HIPC Resources -- 7.6. Poverty Spending and Financing -- Chapter 8: Implementation, Monitoring, and Evaluation -- 8.1. Implementation -- 8.2. Follow-Up and Evaluation -- 8.2.1. Systems -- 8.2.2. Evaluations -- 8.2.3. Reports -- Annex 1 Matrix of Goals and Actions 2006-2010 -- Annex 2 Redefinition of Poverty Spending -- Annex 3 The Poverty Map, Social Marginality, and Territorial Economic Potential -- Annex 4 III Progress Report for the SGPRS.