Multi-donor budget support mechanisms are currently the predominant tool in development cooperation. They are heralded for granting greater autonomy to the recipient government and for increasing its discretion to spend the public budget. To this end, a multi-donor budget support mechanism was...

This paper considers the recent experience of civil society organizations in Nicaragua within the Poverty Reduction Strategies Papers (PRSP) process. The focus of the paper is not the poverty reduction strategy itself but rather civil society responses to this initiative in Nicaragua. It...