Download or read book Poverty and Participation in Civil Society written by Yogesh Atal and published by Abhinav Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During The World Summit For Social Development, Held In Copenhagen In March 1995, Unesco Organised A Round Table, In Collaboration With Crop — The Comparative Research Programme On Poverty, Set Up By The International Social Science Council (Issc) — To Discuss The Problem Of Promoting Participation Of The Poor In Civil Society. This Book Carries The Proceedings Of That Round Table Edited By Dr. Yogesh Atal And Professor Else Oyen Who Jointly Convened That Round Table. The Holding Of The Round Table, And This Publication Of Its Proceedings, Constitute One Of The Several Contributions Made By Unesco To The World Summit Process. In View Of The Fact That The Decade Of 1997-2006 Has Been Declared By The United Nations As The International Decade For The Eradication Of Poverty The Publication Of The Proceedings Of This Round Table Is Timely And Important. What Was Deliberated At The Round Table Should Help Develop An Agenda Not Only For Research And Reflection, But Also For Affirmative Action.
Download or read book Development Centre Studies Ownership and Partnership What Role for Civil Society in Poverty Reduction Strategies written by Smillie Ian and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2003-12-11 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Partnership Forums are the means by which the OECD Development Assistance Committee provides a venue for non-governmental actors to express their points of view. This book presents the proceedings of the December 2000 Forum on Onwership and Partnership.
Download or read book Civil Society and Global Poverty written by Clive Gabay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) is world’s largest civil society movement fighting against poverty and inequality, incorporating over 100 affiliated country-level coalitions. It has become a significant global actor and its annual days of mobilisation now attract over 175 million people around the world. This book seeks to explore GCAP’s power and its embodiment of emancipatory change. It develops a framework that assesses its external power as an actor by exploring how power works in it, and the relationship between the two. Gabay demonstrates that GCAP, and actors like it, may transcend some of the obstructions they face in navigating and proposing alternatives to dominant codes and practices of neo-liberal globalisation. Thematically, the book explores GCAP’s constitutive powers along three axes: hegemony, inclusion and legitimacy. It draws on a wide range of social and political theory, including Liberalism, Anarchism and postcolonial theory and featuring case studies on Malawi and India. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, international development, global governance, social movements and civil society.
Download or read book Civil Society and Poverty Reduction written by International Institute for Environment & Development and published by IIED. This book was released on 2005 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Power Rights and Poverty written by Ruth Alsop and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication contains a number of essays and supplementary materials based on a two-day working meeting, held in Washington D.C. in March 2004 and organised jointly by the World Bank and the UK Department for International Development, to consider the relationships between power, rights and poverty reduction issues in theory and practice. Issues addressed include: competing definitions and concepts of power and rights, using experiences drawn from different countries; ways of helping development practitioners to apply these concepts to their work; a summary of the major theoretical conceptualisations of power and a literature review on power and rights.
Download or read book Fighting Poverty Together written by A. Karnani and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this hard-hitting polemical Karnani demonstrates what is wrong with today's approaches to reducing poverty. He proposes an eclectic approach to poverty reduction that emphasizes the need for business, government and civil society to partner together to create employment opportunities for the poor.
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 Ownership and Partnership written by Ian Smillie and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication contains a collection of proceedings of the Development Partnership Forum, organised by the OECD Development Centre in December 2000. This forum discussed ways of integrating civil society organisations into development policy formation in developing countries, and sought to identify obstacles to such involvement. Findings included that civil-society participation in policy making not only enhances efficient implementation of poverty reduction measures, but also contributes to the creation of more pluralistic and democratic political systems.
Download or read book Voice and Inequality written by Carew Boulding and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first large-scale study of political participation in eighteen Latin American democracies, focusing on the political participation of the region's poorest citizens. Political regimes in Latin America have a long history of excluding poor people from politics. Today, the region's democracies survive in contexts that are still marked by deep poverty and some of the world's most severe socioeconomic inequalities. Keeping socioeconomic inequality from spilling over into political inequality is one of the core challenges facing these young democracies. In Voice and Inequality, Carew Boulding and Claudio Holzner offer the first large-scale empirical analysis of political participation in Latin America. They find that in recent years, most (but not all) countries in the region have achieved near equality of participation across wealth groups, and in some cases poor people participate more than wealthier individuals. How can this be, given the long history of excluding poor people from the political arena in Latin America? Boulding and Holzner argue that key institutions of democracy, namely civil society, political parties, and competitive elections, have an enormous impact on whether or not poor people turn out to vote, protest, and contact government officials. Far from being politically inert, under certain conditions the poorest citizens can act and speak for themselves with an intensity that far exceeds their modest socioeconomic resources. When voluntary organizations thrive in poor communities and when political parties focus their mobilization efforts on poor individuals, they respond with high levels of political activism. Poor people's activism also benefits from strong parties, robust electoral competition and well-functioning democratic institutions. Where electoral competition is robust and where the power of incumbents is constrained, the authors find higher levels of participation by poor individuals and more political equality. Precisely because the individual resource constraints that poor people face are daunting obstacles to political activism, Voice and Inequality focuses on the features of democratic politics that create opportunities for participation that have the strongest impact on poor people's political behavior. Ultimately, Voice and Inequality provides important insights about how the elusive goal of political equality can be achieved even in contexts of elevated poverty and inequality.
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 Civil Society and Global Poverty written by Clive Gabay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) is world's largest civil society movement fighting against poverty and inequality. This book explores GCAP's power as a global actor and its embodiment of emancipatory change. Drawing on a wide range of social and political theory, it features case studies on Malawi and India.
Download or read book Empowering Squatter Citizen written by Diana Mitlin and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the rapid growth in urban poverty in Africa, Asia and Latin America, most cities now have 30 to 60 per cent of their population living in shanty towns. The civil and political rights of these people are either ignored or constantly contravened. They face multiple deprivations, including hunger, long hours working for inadequate incomes; illness, injury and premature deaths that arise from dangerous living conditions and inadequate water supplies, sanitation and healthcare. Many face the constant threat of eviction and other forms of violence. None of these problems can be addressed without local changes, and Empowering Squatter Citizen contends that urban poverty is underpinned by the failure of national governments and aid agencies to support local processes. It makes the case for redirecting support to local organizations, whether governmental, non-governmental or grassroots. . The book includes case studies of innovative government organizations (in Thailand, Mexico, Philippines and Nicaragua) and community-driven processes (in India, South Africa, Pakistan and Brazil), which illustrate more effective approaches to urban poverty reduction.Such approaches include strengthening the organizations of the poor and homeless so that they are accountable to their members, are able to develop their own solutions and have more capacity to negotiate with the institutions that are meant to deliver infrastructure, services, credit and land for housing. Such support for local processes is crucial for meeting the Millennium Development Goals in urban areas.
Download or read book Assessing Participation in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers written by Rosemary McGee and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This desk review provides an update on practice and experiences of civil society participation in the development of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs). It was commissioned by Department for International Development (DFID) and conducted from August-October 2001 by the Participation Group at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in the UK.
Download or read book Citizen Participation and Pro poor Budgeting written by United Nations: Department of Economic and Social Affairs and published by United Nations Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This publication is an output of Ad Hoc Expert Group Meeting on Civil Participation in Fiscal Policy, held in March 2004 in New York Headquarters"--Pref.
Download or read book Empowerment and Poverty Reduction written by Deepa Narayan-Parker and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication offers a framework for the empowerment of people living in poverty throughout the world that concentrates on increasing people's freedom of choice and action to shape their own lives. Based on analysis of practical experiences, the book identifies four key elements to support empowerment: information, inclusion and participation, improved accountability and local organisational capacity. This framework is then applied to five areas of action to improve development effectiveness: provision of basic services, improved local governance, improved national governance, pro-poor market development, and access to justice and legal aid. It also offers twenty 'tools and practices' which concentrate on a wide-range of topics to support the empowerment of the poor.
Download or read book Global Civil Society Yearbook 2009 written by Ashwani Kumar and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2009-05-13 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The annual Global Civil Society Yearbooks provide an indispensable guide to global civil society or civic participation and action around the world. The 2009 Yearbook explores the framings, strategies and impacts of a range of actors on poverty and its alleviation. The overarching question is to whether such actors, in pressing for poverty alleviation actually achieve anything/empower the poor, or simply aid wealthy states in maintaining the status quo. The contributors are diverse, including scholars and practitioners from India, America, the UK, Australia, Thailand, and Mali. The Global Civil Society Yearbook remains the standard work on all aspects of contemporary global civil society for activists, practitioners, students and academics alike. It is essential reading for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the key actors, forms and manifestations of global civil society around the world today.
Download or read book Claiming Fiscal Space Through Budget Support written by Civil Society for Poverty Reduction (Zambia) and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
