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The Contribution of people's participation: Evidence from 121 rural water supply projects / Narayan, Deepa
The study is based on systematic quantitative and qualitative analysis of 121 rural water supply funded by many different water supply agencies in countries throughout the developing world. The analysis consistently shows that beneficiary participation was more significant than any other factor in achieving functional water systems and in building [...]
World Bank; 1995 - 108p.
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Design of social funds participation, demand orientation, and local organization capacity / Narayan, Deepa
Social funds have become an important instrument for contributing directly to community well-being and social cohesion among the poor through the engagement of community groups in the creation and management of local infrastructure, basic services, and natural resources. This paper examines the extent to which social fund subprojects are designed t [...]
World Bank; 1997 - 75p., Ref.
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Voices of the poor: poverty and social capital in Tanzania / Narayan, Deepa
This study reveals the power and utility of participatory methods for policy research. It demonstrates practices and processes that can tap the knowledge the poor have about their own reality. By comparing and contrasting findings from participatory methods with findings from more conventional household consumption and expenditure surveys, the stud [...]
World Bank; 1997 - 80p., Ref.
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Evaluation participative: Outils pour gérer le changement dans l'approvisionnement en eau et l'assainissement / Narayan, Deepa
This document provides policymakers, managers, and planning and evaluation staff with ideas about participatory processes and indicators that can be used to involve community members and others in program evaluation. There is now widespread recognition that participatory development is critical for achieving sustained benefits. Participatory develo [...]
Banque Mondiale; 1994 - 122p.
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Moving out of Poverty, Volume 1: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Mobility / Narayan, Deepa
The volume explores the topic of poor people’s mobility from the perspectives of diverse analytic traditions, country contexts and time horizons. The authors -- leading scholars and development practitioners from the fields of anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology -- not only critically examine the literature about poverty and [...]
Palgrave Macmillan; 2007 -
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Water Supply, Sanitation, and Environmental Sustainability: the financing challenge / Serageldin, Ismail
This booklet distinguishes between an "old agenda" of providing household water and sanitation services to large numbers of people and a "new agenda" that requires sustainable, environmentally sensitive use of water resources. In various countries and in different social and physical contexts, the new approach is based on economic incentives and pa [...]
World Bank; 1994 - 35p.
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Measuring Empowerment : Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives / Narayan, Deepa
Poverty reduction on a large scale depends on empowering those who are most motivated to move out of poverty-poor people themselves. But if empowerment cannot be measured, it will not be taken seriously in development policy making and programming. Building on the "Empowerment and Poverty Reduction Sourcebook," this volume outlines a conceptual fra [...]
The World Bank; 2005 - 475p; Ref.
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Listening to farmers participatory assessment of policy reform in Zambia's agriculture sector / Francis, Paul A.
This study examines the impact on farmers of the radical changes in agricultural policy which have taken place in Zambia during the 1990s. Drawing on the findings of a number of participatory surveys and beneficiary assessments, and on quantitative survey data where available, the paper highlights farmers' own perceptions and priorities regarding c [...]
World Bank; 1997 - 36p., Ref.
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Decentralizing water resource management: Economic incentives, accountability and assurance / Easter, K. William
Private sector involvement and user participation in water resource management are not new, say the authors. They give examples that demonstrate how willing users and the private sector are able to improve water use and play a larger role in water resources management. User participation and private sector involvement, if properly structured, can p [...]
World Bank; 1993 - 27p.
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Participation in Practice : The experience of the world Bank and other Stakeholders / Rietbergen-McCracken, Jennifer
Forty-five studies were commissioned to investigate participation-related issues and draw lessons from participatory projects financed by the World Bank. Questions posed included: What are the benefits and costs of supporting participation in Bank-supported operations? What factors enhance or limit their successful implementation? How can a governm [...]
World Bank; 1996 - 97p.
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Moving out of poverty success from the Bottom up / Narayan, Deepa
The goal is clear: to end poverty. And to do that we must begin by answering the question of why poor people are poor. Beliefs about the poor and the underlying causes of poverty determine the actions that development practitioners pursue, the policies that national politicians devise, and the actions that we as concerned citizens take [...]
The World Bank; 2009 - 428p, Ref
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The welfare effects of private sector participation in Guinea's urban water supply / Clarke, George
In 1989 the government of Guinea enacted far-reaching reform of its water sector, which had been dominated by a poorly run public agency. The government signed a lease contract for operations and maintenance with a private operator, making a separate public enterprise responsible for ownership of assets and investment. Although based on a successfu [...]
World Bank; 2000 - 40p.
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Autonomisation et réduction de la pauvreté; 1st Ed. / Narayan, Deepa
Dans le Rapport sur le développement dans le monde 2000-2001†: lutter contre la pauvreté, on présente une vision multidimensionnelle de la pauvreté. On y souligne en particulier l’importance de permettre aux personnes pauvres d’accéder aux opportunités, à la sécurité et à l’autonomie comme préalable à la croissance économique e [...]
Banque Mondiale; 2004 - 384p; Ref.
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Participation in project preparation: Lesson from World Bank assisted projects India / Vedeld, Trond
The study assesses the extent to which the India program, is meeting the Bank's objective of mainstreaming participatory approaches, in project preparation, and design. From a variety of social, and natural resource management sectors, ten projects were selected, appraised during 1990 and 1998, in which participation was an overall project objectiv [...]
World Bank; - 64p.
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Water allocation mechanisms : principles and examples / Dinar, Ariel
From the earliest times, water resources have been allocated on the basis of social criteria -maintaining the community by ensuring that water is available for human consumption, for sanitation, and for food production. Societies have invested capital in infrastructure to maintain this allocation. Yet social change, including changes in (and more u [...]
World Bank; 1997 - 41p., Ref.
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Does participation improve project performance? Establishing causality with subjective data / Isham, Jonathan
Development practitioners are coming to a consensus that participation by the intended beneficiaries improves project performance. But is there convincing evidence that this is true? Skeptics have three objections: 1) "Participation is not objective -- project rankings are subjective; 2) this subjectivity leads to "halo effects"; 3) better project [...]
World Bank; 1994 - 36p.
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Private Sector participation in the water supply and waste water sector : lessons from six developing countries / Rivera, Daniel
This study synthesizes the results of six recent experiences with private sector participation in the water and wastewater sectors of developing countries. Its objectives are threefold: 1) to evaluate the results of these six cases and to describe the challenges and opportunities faced by governments and by water utilities, public as well as privat [...]
World Bank; 1996 - 83p., Bibliogr.
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Moving Out of Poverty. Volume 3: The Promise of Empowerment and Democracy in India / Narayan, Deepa
This study focuses on people who moved out of poverty during the decade from 1995 to 2005 in rural areas of four Indian states: Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal. It also considers people who have fallen into poverty, those who have remained poor, and some who have never been poor but who live alongside poor people in the same c [...]
World Bank; 2009 - 471p, Ref
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Listening to firms: how to use firm-level surveys to assess constraints on private sector development / Stone, Andrew H.W.
Firm-level surveys elicit information important to formulating sound policy advice and designing projects to promote private sector development. Drawing on recent World Bank experience in eight countries, the author advises why and how to implement targeted field surveys by answering the following questions: Why use targeted field surveys? How shou [...]
World Bank; 1992 - 9p.
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Water markets in the Americas / Simpson, Larry
This volume summarizes the practice of using water markets to improve the efficiency of water use. The water sector is in a state of transition. In the past, water was regarded as public property, to be developed and operated by government agencies [...]
World Bank; 1997 - 52p., Ref.
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