本研究试图分析PRSP进程及其内含的理论，并讨论它的变迁、挑战和困境。本研究把塞拉利昂的PRSP项目作为一个案例来分析，但同时借鉴其它非洲发展中国家开展PRSP项目的经验。PRSP项目仅仅启动了几年，也许现在断定PRSP是否有利于减轻贫困、刺激当地经济，是否有利于提高当地的参与力和所有权，还维持尚早。在PRSP模式的再发展过程中，急需了解的是，贫穷对于经历着贫穷的人们意味着什么，以及贫穷对于国家发展的影响。显而易见的是，贫穷已经影响到塞拉利昂的社会、经济和政治的各个方面，主要表现为食品不足、疾病、文盲、安全饮用水不足、住房不足，以及不能同等地获得机会和信息。贫穷已经成为了大面积的社会危机，大部分民众的生活水平都很窘迫。此外，本研究也考察了贫穷国家S&T与PRSP的结合问题，评估了这种结合对于经济增长、贫困减少的重要性，以及这种结合对发展所必须的基础设施建设、社会服务提供方面的意义。本研究还提到国际金融组织、政府和公民社会如何帮助改善PRSP过程，如他们可以保障捐助者的参与、增强民主转变、加强金融机构，还有保证经济自由。在经济方面，塞拉利昂没能太多的关注经济复苏、以及扭转多年来的系统性衰退。2001年，塞拉利昂终于正式停止内战，实现和平。政治不稳定就不可能有经济的繁荣。因此，2001年后，很多人认为，和平的气氛会给国家重建和复兴带来机会，会增加国际社会对塞拉利昂的信心，发展国际旅游业，增加国际社会在塞拉利昂的投资。战争对国家的社会经济，人口和环境都产生了恶劣的影响。7年前由于敌意状态的停止和正式和平协议的签署，国家百废待兴，需要把经济发展提上日程。虽说债务可以被一笔勾销，然而贫穷却不能被简简单单地勾掉。因此，国家需要一个新的发展策略，一套持久的、系统的政策，来保证减少贫穷的政策落到实处，尤其是要利用现代的科学和技术来实现这一目标。为了保证塞拉利昂PRSP项目的成功实施，监控和评价机制是关键。在这一过程中，对PRSP的重新调整很必要，因为（从文件的起草之日到实行之日）很多事情已经发生了变化，还有，很多国际社会在项目管理方面的一般做法，也许不适合塞拉利昂（这个世界上最不发达的国家之一）的具体情况。据估计，在项目的实施过程中，可能需要据新趋势和新发生的事件制定新的策略，保证项目和现实的一致性。任何政策的成功都需要考虑一个国家的具体情况。减少贫困犹如对抗恐怖分子的战争一样，两个都需要高额的预算，但有了高额预算和创新的策略，也不能保证成功。两者的结果都是很难预测的。更重要的是，贫穷是个极其复杂的问题，任何短期方案或速战速决的方案都是不现实的。减少贫穷的任务注定是一场马拉松，绝不是一个短跑项目。例如，很多研究者都指出，要想把脱贫的项目落到实处，必须无条件接受贫穷问题的复杂性和长期性，不但需要我们可行的政策，还需要有实施的方案。最后，还必须有预期的成果，但不是短期的成果。虽然没有快速解决问题的办法，也不能去浪费时间。塞拉利昂被联合国发展计划署定为人类发展指数（2006，2007，2008年两次）最低的国家，这意味着它是世界上最穷的国家。在这种情景下，必须采取一定的措施来补救，为大部分人民转变生活现状，否则情况只会变得比当前更加严重。当前，塞拉利昂正在寻求崛起之路，这是本研究的背景。随着人们生活不断平静、复苏，政府没有理由不发展经济，政府也会因为减少贫困的成功而得到更多的支持。本研究中提到的几个地区如果能够得到政府足够的重视，这将是他们通往社会文化繁荣发展的里程碑。减少贫困和提高发展的PRSP项目在塞拉利昂的再发展，强调政府管理方面的几个关系，寻找结构性障碍中的缺失的连接，找到不民主的非洲新父系氏族体系中的基础性问题。也许要制定一个决定国家未来的经济复苏计划，首先需要重新审视可持续性发展的框架，还要考虑项目的效率，保证能够团结和动用国内外各方面的利益集团，目的是在这个小国家，综合使用国内和国际各种不同集团和组织的力量。

This study seeks to analyze the changes, challenges and dilemmas highlighted by the PRS process and its underlying philosophy. it focuses primarily on the Sierra Leonean PRSP as a case study but draws on evidence from many of the developing countries in Africa which now have PRSPs, concludes that while it may be too early, only a few years after their launch, to determine whether PRSPs will reduce poverty, and to stimulate local interest as well as a better understanding of the PRSP processes in order to enhance local participation and ownership.In the redevelopment of the PRSP, a major element will be the understanding of what it means to be poor as evidenced by the poor themselves and the impact of poverty on the development of the country. It is evident that poverty in Sierra Leone is a serious social, economic and political condition in which the poor have insufficient feeding, ill-health, illiteracy, lack of access to safe drinking water, inadequate housing as well as lack of equality of opportunity and access to information and powerlessness. Poverty has become a social crisis of huge proportions, denying the majority of the people a decent standard of living. But the poor as well as their children and dependants are Sierra Leoneans. Furthermore, it examines the incorporation of S&T into PRSPs of poorer countries and assesses their overall significance to economic growth, poverty reduction integration of S&T and development of infrastructure necessary for growth and the provision of social services. However, this study contains many suggestions of ways that international financial institutions, governments and civil society could improve the PRSP process by ensuring the involvement and participation of donors, even enhancing democratic transitions, strengthening of financial institutions and ensuring economic freedoms. Sierra Leone has paid little or no attention to resuscitating the economy and turning back years of systematic decline in the economic front. The prevailing atmosphere of peace and reconciliation achieved after the formal cessation of hostilities in 2001 is widely believed to provide a fertile ground for national reconstruction and rehabilitation, regaining much needed international confidence for tourist destination and raising investor confidence since economic development cannot predictably thrive in an atmosphere of political instability. The war has had it’s share of devastating socio-economic, demographic and environmental effects on the country but since the cessation of hostility and the formalization of peace negotiations in 2001, there needs for the country to step up it’s development ambition and bring the economic agenda back on track.It is estimated that whereas debt can be cancelled with the stroke of the pen, poverty cannot be so easily cancelled with the stroke of the pen. Hence, the enduring need for revised strategy and reinvigorating the whole process to ensure that there is a rigorous system of enhanced poverty reduction policies and alternatives is put in place particularly in the light of modern scientific and technological advancement. In assessing the feasibility of success of the SL-PRSP, monitoring and evaluation mechanisms are expected to be key facilitators of the implementation process. A Re-development of the PRSP in Reducing Poverty and Enhancing development in Sierra Leone is necessary where for instance, events might have superseded facts (since the drafting of the PRSP to the time of implementation) or where current best practices in governance and strategic management programmes in the field worldwide are not in tandem with the broader framework of development plans of the prospecting country; this time Sierra Leone, one of the least developed countries in the world.It is estimated that implementers are able to get back to the drawing board and re-strategize with a view of incorporating the new trends and emerging issues to respond to the existing conditions. However, country specifics and peculiarities need to be taken into consideration. Naturally, poverty reduction like the war on terrorism involves very high levels of expenditure budgeting for strategizing and implementation of the various programmes. Success is neither contingent on volume of budgeted expenditure or novelty of ideas and outcomes are less predictable. Even more critical, is the complexity and character of their containment and spread which is like non-equable to short term solutions or quick fixes and that any realistic attempt at curbing incidence of poverty must begin as a marathon and not a sprint. For instance, some researches have indicated that there must be an unconditional acceptance of the poverty problem by all affected and a putting into place of realistic policy guidelines as well as a plan for carrying them out. Finally, expected outcomes must be guaranteed but in the long term. While there are no quick fixes yet there is no time to lose. At the moment, Sierra Leone needs to rise up from the ashes after being named at the bottom of the UNDP human development index (2006, 2007 and twice in 2008) meaning that it is the poorest in the world. In this scenario, something has to be done quickly to avoid situations hitting rock bottom and cause even greater problems than what is currently the case of adverse social conditions for a major percentage of the citizenry. This study is therefore predicated against the backdrop that with the level of tranquility and resuscitation of normal life, then the business of governance is given a huge boost in several poverty reducing areas and trends and there can be no excuses for growth and development. If the areas mentioned in this study are accorded the primacy they deserve, then it can be a milestone to greater propensity for change in the socio-cultural environment. The redevelopment of the PRSP in reducing Poverty and enhancing development in Sierra Leone seeks to underscore several relationships in the business of governance and make smart checks to find out what may be the missing link from the mosaic of structural incumbrances hammering home the fundamental problem of African neopatrilineal systems which oftentimes are described as undemocratic. Perhaps, a national economic recovery plan set to determine the course of the country future should begin by re-examining it’s sustainable development policy outlines and the efficacy of programmes designed to unify and mobilize the various vested interests both within the country and outside towards a greater economic convergence on the part of the divergent national and international groups and actors in a small but highly politicized country.