Download or read book Participation of the Poor in Development Initiatives written by Carolyn Long and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of involving the poor recipients in planning and implementing development policies has long been recognized, and has been the official aim of large donors, including the World Bank and major donor agencies. This text assesses their success and the results of the primary stakeholder participation achieved. It analyzes the institutional changes necessary for stakeholders to participate in decision-making, and the strategies and behaviour of other parties involved, including NGOs. From this review and analysis, it draws an important range of lessons for future donor and NGO policies and organizational reform.
Download or read book Participation of the Poor in Development Initiatives written by Carolyn Long and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of involving the poor recipients in planning and implementing development policies has long been recognized, and has been the official aim of large donors, including the World Bank and major donor agencies. This text assesses their success and the results of the primary stakeholder participation achieved. It analyzes the institutional changes necessary for stakeholders to participate in decision-making, and the strategies and behaviour of other parties involved, including NGOs. From this review and analysis, it draws an important range of lessons for future donor and NGO policies and organizational reform.
Download or read book Participatory Pathways People s Participation in Development Initiatives written by Balakrishnan, Rajiv and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2007 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Participatory Pathways: People’s Participation in Development Initiatives aims to create awareness about the issues that need to be tackled, provide a grassroots perspective of the promise and perils of participatory pathways and a glimpse of the role people's participation can play in building a better world. Covering topics like grassroots governance, gender and ethics, enabling frameworks, and participatory planning, this book draws attention to participation’s promise while emphasizing the need to take cognizance of the obstacles in the way.
Download or read book The World Bank Participation Sourcebook written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1996 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents case studies resulting from participation in the World Bank by developing countries such as Chad, Brazil, and Nigeria
Download or read book Participation of the Poor in Development Initiatives written by Carolyn Long and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of involving the poor recipients in planning and implementing development policies has long been recognized, and has been the official aim of large donors, including the World Bank and major donor agencies. This text assesses their success and the results of the primary stakeholder participation achieved. It analyzes the institutional changes necessary for stakeholders to participate in decision-making, and the strategies and behaviour of other parties involved, including NGOs. From this review and analysis, it draws an important range of lessons for future donor and NGO policies and organizational reform.
Download or read book Policies to Address Poverty in America written by Melissa Kearney and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One-in-seven adults and one-in-five children in the United States live in poverty. Individuals and families living in povertyÊnot only lack basic, material necessities, but they are also disproportionally afflicted by many social and economic challenges. Some of these challenges include the increased possibility of an unstable home situation, inadequate education opportunities at all levels, and a high chance of crime and victimization. Given this growing social, economic, and political concern, The Hamilton Project at Brookings asked academic experts to develop policy proposals confronting the various challenges of AmericaÕs poorest citizens, and to introduce innovative approaches to addressing poverty.ÊWhen combined, the scope and impact of these proposals has the potential to vastly improve the lives of the poor. The resulting 14 policy memos are included in The Hamilton ProjectÕs Policies to Address Poverty in America. The main areas of focus include promoting early childhood development, supporting disadvantaged youth, building worker skills, and improving safety net and work support.
Download or read book Putting the Poor First written by Piera Waibel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to make progress toward the UN Millennium Development Goals – and particularly in terms of poverty alleviation – business has a pivotal role to play: in terms of core business; purchasing products from the poor; employing them; and selling them affordable services and products. Serving the global 4 billion people at the base of the economic ladder – the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) – with suitable products and services is a new but growing field in research and practice. In the initial years, the focus of BoP was very much on selling products and services to a huge untapped market. Practitioners and academics focused on developing new distribution channels to reach the low-income markets and new technological solutions to address their needs. These first-generation "fortune-finding" approaches are now described as "business to four billion". Over the last few years, however, new priorities have gained prominence. This new value proposition can be framed as "business with four billion" and is "fortune-creating". So-called Next Generation, or BoP 2.0, strategies can bring companies and their target groups closer together. The goal is to co-create new business models as well as product and service solutions together with the target group. Integrating BoP into the innovation process – be it in terms of idea generation, product/service development, production or distribution/marketing – is seen as way to increase not only the impact on poverty alleviation, but also the benefits to the company. This paradigm shift – to co-creation or embedded innovation – in fact closely mirrors a shift previously made by development researchers who argued that the poor should no longer be viewed as the target of poverty reduction efforts, but as partners in, and an asset to, the development process. Bottom-up development approaches – such as Participation, Community-Driven Development, Empowerment, Asset-Based Community Development or Local Knowledge – emphasize the role of the poor and see them as central to the design and implementation of the development process. Even though some BoP researchers consider selective parts of this knowledge in their research, a comprehensive study that rigorously examines BoP ventures from a bottom-up development perspective has not yet been completed. This book attempts to fill that gap. Putting the Poor First examines the applicability of different elements in the bottom-up development literature to the innovation process of BoP ventures. It unveils connections between the two approaches and builds a theoretical base for the case study research. With three in-depth case studies and eight companies participating in a survey, the current state and experiences of businesses applying a bottom-up development perspective with BoP ventures in Latin America and the Caribbean is analysed. The elements of a bottom-up development perspective applied in BoP practice can be grouped into three categories: drivers for choosing a bottom-up development perspective in BoP ventures (e.g. such that products and services are more readily accepted); circumstances that help or hinder the application of a bottom-up development perspective in BoP ventures (e.g. the acceptance of the company by communities or previous experiences with poverty alleviation projects); and success factors when choosing a bottom-up development perspective in BoP ventures (e.g. the importance of power structures, pluralism and self-esteem). The many recommendations, such as empowering the poor by encouraging co-creation and outsourcing innovation, fill gaps in theory, support practitioners and lay the foundations for further research. This will be a key book for BoP researchers and practitioners on the ground. The reconnection of development approaches with BoP strategies puts the poor first.
Download or read book Localizing Development written by Ghazala Mansuri and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2013 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the conceptual foundations of the participatory approach to local development, assesses the evidence of its efficacy, and draws key lessons for policy.
Download or read book The Participation of the Rural Poor in Development written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poverty Participation and Democracy written by Anirudh Krishna and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-21 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For too long a conventional wisdom has held sway, suggesting that poor people in poor countries are not supportive of democracy and that democracies will be sustained only after a certain average level of wealth has been achieved. Evidence from 24 diverse countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America examined in this volume shows how poor people do not value democracy any less than their richer counterparts. Their faith in democracy is as high as that of other citizens, and they participate in democratic activities as much as their richer counterparts. Democracy is not likely to be unstable or unwelcome simply because poverty is widespread. Political attitudes and participation levels are unaffected by relative wealth. Education, rather than income or wealth, makes for more committed and engaged democratic citizens. Investments in education will make a critical difference for stabilizing and strengthening democracy.
Download or read book Participation of the Poor in Development written by Benno Franciscus Galjart and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conference papers on popular participation in project designs for rural development - outlines results of a related research project; discusses the theoretical background, objectives of social participation and rural mobilization, importance of self help and communication with low income target groups, obstacles, role of rural institutions, government agencys and aid institutions, etc.; includes case studies of successful innovations. Bibliography and references. Conference held in Leiden 1981 Nov 19 and 20.
Download or read book Participatory Development written by Ponna Wignaraja and published by United Nations University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tackling the problems of Third World development from a different perspective, this study offers a new approach in which people at the grass roots level in South Asia become both the subjects and the objects of a participatory process of development designed to improve living conditions.
Download or read book Unpacking Policy written by Karen Brock and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book published for the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex presents the findings of a team of researchers based in the UK, Uganda and Nigeria. It sets out to examine the processes by which policies for poverty reduction are made and implemented, and assesses to what extent policies provide for positive change in the lives of poor people. The project advocates a policy process that is radically different from the traditional linear model; one that departs from structural adjustment exigencies of external conditionality to one in which actors, knowledge and policy spaces interact in policy making. Strategies are generated and owned locally and the poor are understood as active participants in their own development. The book argues that if political systems and the policy processes through which they are enacted are to be democratised, then so should the knowledge base that feeds those policy processes. This means working by a deliberative process not only to produce knowledge, but also to incorporate knowledge of different kinds; differentiating between respective roles and powers of discourse, and reconstituting the prevailing cultures of legitimacy and representation. Although based on evidence from Uganda and Nigeria, the book is conceived to have application to the struggle against poverty more widely.
Download or read book The Role of Public Administration in Alleviating Poverty and Improving Governance written by Jak Jabes and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2005 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is the first of a series from The Network of Asia-Pacific Schools and Institutes of Public Administration and Governance (NAPSIPAG), a network of professionals formed to encourage the continuing development of public administration theory and practice through research and other initiatives, and foster cooperation and collaboration between and among the members in pursuit of related and common interests.
Download or read book Reducing Poverty on a Global Scale written by World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the findings from the Shanghai Global Learning Initiative (a working conference held in Shanghai in May 2004 organised by the World Bank in partnership with the Chinese Government) this publication explores issues relating to global sustainable development, poverty reduction strategies and the effectiveness of international aid. The aim of the case studies presented is to explore ways of 'scaling-up' successful initiatives in order to address the global imbalances in poverty and development identified in the UN Millennium Development Goals.
Download or read book Popular Participation as a Strategy for Promoting Community level Action and National Development written by Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs (United Nations) and published by New York : United Nations. This book was released on 1981 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beneficiary Consumer Citizen written by Andrea Cornwall and published by . This book was released on 2000* with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the meaning of the concept participation, starting with ILO's basic need approach in the 1970s, followed by community participation and self help in the 1980s, and the terms partners, customers, stakeholder in the 1990s. Reflects on the move towards governance, citizenships and rights. Suggests to focus on enabling people to shape their own spaces for engagement and to enhance the accountability of local and global institutions that affect people's lives.
