Empowerment and public service delivery in Developing Asia and the Pacific : policy report / Asian Development Bank.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jha, Shikha, author.

Asian Development Bank.

Deolalikar, Anil B., author.

Contributor:

Asian Development Bank, publisher, copyright holder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social planning--Developing countries.

Social planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (79 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Philippines : Asian Development Bank, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Highlights""; ""Introduction""; ""Progress and Problems in Service Provision in Developing Asia""; ""Improvements in Service Delivery and Outcomes""; ""Disparities in Access""; ""Issues of Service Quality""; ""Concerns with Governance""; ""How Can Empowered People Exercise their Power to Improve Service Delivery?""; ""Empowerment the Client Power""; ""Citizen Rights, Participation, and Oversight""; ""Rights-Based Entitlements""; ""Participatory Performance Monitoring""

""Community Participation and Community-Driven Development""""State versus Private Provisioning""; ""Role of the State""; ""Public Private Partnerships""; ""Case Studies""; ""Nongovernment Organization Management of Public Primary Health Care Centers in Karnataka, India""; ""Contracting for Health Services in Cambodia""; ""Microfinance and Nongovernment Organizations in Nepal""; ""Water Service Delivery to the Poor in Metro Manila, Philippines""; ""Information and Communication Technology""; ""Improving Service Provision through ICT""; ""Case Studies""

""Payment of Pensions and Wages through Electronic Banking""""Computerized Management of Land Records""; ""Promoting Citizen Empowerment and Engagement through Information Sharing""; ""Empowering Farmers and Fishermen: Sharing Knowledge and Price Information""; ""Policy Lessons and Priorities""; ""Background Papers""; ""References""; ""Appendix""; ""Tables""; ""1. Percent of Women Who Received Skilled Antenatal Care""; ""2. Cost of Doing Business by World Region, 2013""; ""3. Subnational Differences in the Cost of Doing Business""; ""4. Strengths and Weaknesses of Rights-Based Entitlements""

""5. Strengths and Weaknesses of Participatory Performance Monitoring""""6. Strengths and Weaknesses of Community Participation and Community-Driven Development""; ""Figures""; ""1. Net Primary Enrollment Rates, 2010""; ""2. School Life Expectancy in Years""; ""3. Global Number of Out-of-School Children of Primary School Age""; ""4. Average Life Expectancy at Birth""; ""5. Trends in Under-5 Mortality Rate in Selected Asian Countries""; ""6. Access to Improved Water Sources in Selected Asian Countries""; ""7. Access to Improved Sanitation in Selected Asian Countries""

""8. Access to Electricity in Selected Asian Countries, 2009""""9. Ability to Read a Story by Expenditure Quintile, Children 8-11 Years Old in India, 2005""; ""10. Test Scores of Grade 4 Students in Sri Lanka, 2003""; ""11. Disparities in Infant Mortality Rate, Urban""; ""12. Absence Rates of Teachers in Rural Public Schools by State, India""; ""13. Provider Absence Rates in Selected Countries, 2003-2005""; ""14. International Test Scores of 15-Year Olds in Selected Asian Countries, 2009 (PISA)""; ""15. Student Arithmetic Achievement by Grade in Rural India, 2011""

""16. Student Arithmetic Achievement by Grade in Rural Pakistan, 2011""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 11, 2014).

ISBN:

92-9254-044-0

OCLC:

889264488