dc.contributor.author | Moore, Mick | |
dc.contributor.author | Joshi, Anuradha | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-03T10:39:02Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-07-03T10:39:02Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2000-01-25 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Joshi, A. and Moore, M.P. (2000) The Mobilising Potential of Anti-Poverty Programmes, IDS Discussion Paper 374, Brighton: IDS | en |
dc.identifier.isbn | 1 85864 293 0 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/13856 | |
dc.description.abstract | Aid and development agencies like to believe that they manage their development programmes in ways that empower the poor. This is rare in practice, even in the case of newly-fashionable programmes that are explicitly targeted at the poor and justified in terms of 'empowerment'.
It is not easy to use public anti-poverty programmes to empower the poor, i.e. to encourage them to mobilise politically around pro-poor agendas and movements. How can 'friends of the poor' in government or other agencies design and manage their anti-poverty programmes to encourage this mobilisation?
We explore the options, point out the advantages and disadvantages of the more direct methods, and make a case for the indirect or parametric approach: creating an enabling institutional environment, that encourages poor people, social activists and grassroots political entrepreneurs to invest in pro-poor mobilisation.
We then present a language for understanding the various dimensions of this enabling institutional environment, and use it to examine two contrasting, successful cases: rural water supply in Nepal, and the Employment Guarantee Scheme in Maharashtra, India. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Institute of Development Studies | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | IDS Discussion Paper;374 | |
dc.rights.uri | http://www.ids.ac.uk/files/dmfile/IDSOpenDocsStandardTermsOfUse.pdf | en |
dc.subject | Poverty | en |
dc.title | The Mobilising Potential of Anti-Poverty Programmes | en |
dc.type | IDS Discussion Paper | en |
dc.rights.holder | Institute of Development Studies | en |
dc.identifier.team | Governance | en |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2000-01-25 | |
rioxxterms.funder | Default funder | en |
rioxxterms.identifier.project | Default project | en |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en |
rioxxterms.funder.project | 9ce4e4dc-26e9-4d78-96e9-15e4dcac0642 | en |