Empowerment and poverty reduction : a sourcebook / edited by Deepa Narayan.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Narayan-Parker, Deepa.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community development--Developing countries.

Community development.

Developing countries.

Poverty--Developing countries.

Poverty.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 371 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : World Bank, [2002]

Summary:

Empowerment and Poverty Reduction: A Sourcebook is an outcome of World Development Report 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty, which highlighted opportunity, empowerment, and security as key elements in the creation and implementation of poverty reduction strategies. This book provides a framework for empowerment that concentrates on increasing poor people's freedom of choice and action to shape their own lives. This framework pertains to five areas of action to improve development effectiveness-provision of basic services, improved local governance, improved national governance, access to justice and legal aid, and pro-poor market development. This Sourcebook gives 20 "Tools and Practices, " which concentrate on a wide-range of topics to encourage the empowerment of the poor from poor people's enterprises, information and communication technologies to diagnostic tools including corruption surveys and citizen report cards.

Contents:

Application of Empowerment Approaches xxi

Provision of basic services xxi

Improved local governance xxii

Improved national governance xxii

Pro-poor market development xxiii

Access to justice and legal aid xxiii

Empowerment and Development Effectiveness 2

Empowerment and Development Effectiveness: Good Governance and Growth 2

Empowerment and Development Effectiveness: Making Growth Pro-Poor 5

Empowerment and Development Effectiveness: Project-Level Evidence 7

The World Bank's Role 9

Analysis, Evaluation, and Advice 9

Convening 9

Enabling 9

Capacity Building 10

2. What Is Empowerment? 13

Defining Empowerment 13

Poor People's Assets and Capabilities 14

Relationship between Individual and Collective Assets and Capabilities 15

Institutional Reform and Empowerment 16

No Single Model for Empowerment 17

Four Elements of Empowerment 18

Access to Information 19

Inclusion and Participation 20

Accountability 21

Local Organizational Capacity 22

The Empowerment Framework 22

Empowerment in Context: Conditions Vary 24

Nature of Public Action 24

Patterns of Social Exclusion and Conflict 25

Extent of Decentralization 26

Strength of Local-Level Institutions and Civil Society 26

Extent of Political Freedom 27

3. Applying Empowerment Principles 31

Provision of Basic Services 32

Access to Information 33

Inclusion and Participation 35

Local Organizational Capacity 36

Improved Local Governance 38

Access to Information 39

Inclusion and Participation: Planning, Budgeting, Rule Making, and Management 40

Accountability 42

Improved National Governance 43

Access to Information 45

Inclusion and Participation 45

Accountability: Citizen Monitoring 48

Local Organizational Capacity 49

Pro-Poor Market Development 50

Business Development Support Services for Micro/SMEs 52

Access to Financial Services 59

Managing Vulnerability: Insurance and Housing 65

Access to Justice and Legal Aid 66

5. Tools and Practices 97

1. Information and Communications Technology as a Tool for Empowerment 99

2. Empowerment and the World Bank's Country Assistance Strategy for Indonesia 125

3. Empowerment in the Vietnam Country Program 137

4. Peru Portfolio Review through an Empowerment Lens 143

5. Social Accountability Mechanisms in Programmatic and Structural Adjustment Loans 149

6. Participatory Budgeting 169

7. Information Disclosure 181

8. Decentralization Strategies for Empowerment 201

9. Community-Driven Development 209

10. Empowerment in Education 231

11. Institutional Innovations to Support Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises 249

12. Institutional Innovations in Financial Services for the Poor 259

13. Poor People's Organizations 271

14. Legal and Judicial Reform 289

15. Institutional and Governance Reviews 303

16. Citizen Report Cards 317

17. World Bank Corruption Surveys 327

18. Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys 337

19. Private Enterprise Surveys of the Business Environment 345

20. Participatory Poverty Diagnostics 355.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0821351664

OCLC:

50280424