The Republic of Benin completed its PRSP in December 2002. The document describes the National Development Program centered around four pillars:

• Consolidating macroeconomic stability through accelerated private-sector-led growth and rigorous public finance management.
• Improving access to basic education, literacy, primary health care, safe water, and deepening the fight agains prevention of new HIV/AIDS infection, malaria and tuberculosis, with specific attention to vulnerable groups, especially women.
• Strengthening good governance and reinforcing institutional capacities.
• Promoting long-term employment and building capacity for poor people to participate in the decision-making process and in production.

Benin reached the Completion Point under the Enhanced HIPC Initiative in March 2003. HIPC assistance is being used to finance poverty-reducing expenditures.

The PRSP and the Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) , endorsed by the IMF and World Bank in March 2003, is becoming a benchmark plan for donor assistance.

The 'Observatoire de Changement Sociale' (OCS) is the mechanism for the monitoring and evaluation of the PRSP and is being supported by Denmark, Germany (GTZ, KfW), Switzerland, UNDP, and the World Bank. The first annual progress report of the PRSP was scheduled for end March 2004.

Benin's major partners (AfDB, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, EC, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Switzerland, UN, USA, and the WB) participate actively in the ongoing elaboration of sector strategies as well as in thematic groups in the areas of rural development, private sector development, judicial sector reform, food security, HIV/AIDS, health and education. Since the PRSP has been finalised, Benin's development partners are expressing greater interest in harmonising their assistance around it. Already, those partners involved in providing programmatic support for the reform program are working to harmonize around Benin's own budgetary, procurement, and financial management procedures. Switzerland leads the bilateral donor coordination group.

Denmark and Germany (GTZ) have concluded a delegated cooperation agreement for strengthening the capacities of the OCS. GTZ is the silent partner.

The first Public Expenditure Review done since 1997, was completed in 2004 and was a joint effort of Denmark and the WB. Denmark provided the chapter on rural water supply and sanitation.

Benin is a UN pilot. All the major UN agencies are represented in that country.

FAO, UNFPA, WHO, UNDP, UNICEF, UNHCR have adopted a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation tool and indicators (BENINFO), designed to monitor PRSP implementation and progress towards MDGs .

The first Millennium Development Goals (MDG) report was published in 2003.