Participation in Economic Advancement Collection
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This collection contains case studies, case summaries, working papers, and briefing notes from the IDS project Linking Participation and Economic Advancement. These materials explore economic alternatives that enable participation: ways that enterprises, communities and societies are making economic decisions in which ‘ordinary’ people have a real voice. In particular, they examine participation in three areas: alternative forms of economic management that enable workers, consumers, communities, farmers, for example, to have a voice; citizen voice in government economic policy-making; and grassroots economic alternatives where people claim ownership over economic processes that affect their lives.
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Democratising Business: Towards Meaningful Participation in Business, Finance, and Value Chain Governance
(IDS, 2020-05-05)Fifty years of focus on short-term financial performance and maximising shareholder value has contributed to soaring inequality, unsustainable development, and global instability. The time is ripe to build a new type of ... -
IBEKA: Community-owned and Managed Mini Grids in Indonesia
(IDS, 2020-04)Institut Bisnis dan Ekonomi Kerakyatan (IBEKA), or People Centred Economic and Business Institute, supports rural electrification by installing small-scale hydro or wind mini grids and setting up village-based organisations ... -
Jubilee Debt Campaign: Civil Society Voice in Global Debt Governance
(IDS, 2020-04)Jubilee 2000 was a highly successful global campaign to bring about debt relief for developing countries, which galvanised activists into a shared global project and brought them into negotiations with creditors. The Jubilee ... -
RUDI Multi-trading Company: Locally- owned Agricultural Trade Network
(IDS, 2020-04)The Rural Urban Distribution Initiative (RUDI) was set up in India in 2004 by the Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA). It is a branded local network for the procurement, marketing, and distribution of agricultural ... -
Preston Model: Community Wealth Generation and a Local Cooperative Economy
(IDS, 2020-04)After the financial crisis of 2007/8, the city of Preston in Lancashire, UK, lost half of its government grants and nearly a billion pounds (US$1.3 billon) in private investments. In what has become known as the Preston ... -
Up & Go: A Platform for Fair Work and Liveable Wages
(IDS, 2020-04)Up & Go is an online platform which brings together several cooperatively owned cleaning businesses for fair work conditions and liveable wages in a sector usually characterised by informal, precarious, and low-paid work. ... -
Banco Palmas: Solidarity Finance in Conjunto Palmeiras
(IDS, 2020-04)Banco Palmas is one of the early examples of solidarity finance. Emerging from a peri-urban slum in Brazil, this initiative is based on three key pillars: small, communitysanctioned loans; a local currency (to keep wealth ... -
Democratising Economic Power: The Potential for Meaningful Participation in Economic Governance and Decision-Making
(IDS, 2020-03-30)Participation is the act of people engaging in decisions that impact their lives. It has been widely promoted in social, political and civic spheres. However, the question of participation in economic governance is ... -
The RSA Citizens’ Economic Council: Citizen Contributions to Policy Making Highlights
(IDS, 2020-03)The RSA’s Citizen Economic Council was a two-year programme (2016-2018) in which 59 citizens conducted their own enquiry into economic policy in the United Kingdom and worked and deliberated with policymakers to co-create ... -
ASMARE: Informal Waste Workers Engaging in Municipal Policy-Making
(IDS, 2020-03)ASMARE is an association of informal waste workers ( catadores ) in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Founded in 1990, it was the first step of involving catadores as a part of the city’s waste collection scheme. With ASMARE, the ... -
BPDC: Costa Rica’s Worker-Owned Bank
(IDS, 2020-03)Banco Popular (Banco Popular y de Desarrollo Comunal, BPDC) is a cooperative bank that is owned and managed by the workers of Costa Rica. Its diverse clients include workers, farmers, enterprises, and a variety of development ... -
RSF Social Finance: Transforming the Way the World Works with Money
(IDS, 2020-03)RSF Social Finance is a public benefit financial services organisation dedicated to transforming the way the world works with money. RSF offers investing, lending, and giving services to individuals and enterprises committed ... -
Buen Vivir Fund: Participatory Impact Investing
(IDS, 2020-03)The Buen Vivir Fund is a participatory impact investment fund operating internationally. It was founded in 2018 by Thousand Currents, a nongovernmental organisation, following a co-design process to conceptualise the Fund, ... -
PEKKA: Women-Headed Household Empowerment
(IDS, 2020-03)Grass-roots member-owned cooperatives for female heads of households in rural Indonesia (PEKKA) empower the female members through three economic activities: community-based microfinance through savings and borrowing; a ... -
Ghana Civil Society Platform on the IMF Programme
(IDS, 2020-03)Eleven Accra-based civil society organisations (CSOs) working on social accountability, anti-corruption and governance joined forces in November 2014 to influence the design, implementation and monitoring of the International ... -
Participation in Economic Advancement: The Experience of the Brazilian Network of Community Banks (BNCB)
(IDS, 2020-02)This case study was designed to investigate how people in poor communities in Brazil are taking action to improve their local economies and how participation is important to achieve that. In a context of economic marginalisation ... -
'Empresas Recuperadas': Argentina's Recovered Factory Movement
(IDS, 2019-06)The ‘empresas recuperadas' or worker-recovered enterprise movement in Argentina emerged as a response to the country's sovereign debt crisis of 2001, with workers fighting for their right to run abandoned factories. Central ... -
W.L. Gore & Associates Inc.: Workplace Democracy in a Transnational Corporation
(IDS, 2019-06)W. L. Gore and Associates (Gore) is a privately-held multinational company founded in 1958. Since its founding, it has operated through a "lattice" system of employee self-management which is said to verge on true workplace ... -
Participatory Guarantee Systems in Tanzania: Locally Focused Quality Assurance Systems
(IDS, 2019-06)Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGSs) are alternative certification schemes for organic products, built on trust and social networks, and intended for local markets. In contrast to third party export-oriented certification ... -
National Street Vendor Association: Lobbying for a National Urban Street vendor Policy in India
(IDS, 2019-07)The National Street Vendor Association (NASVI) in India is an association of Indian street vendor organisations working to protect the rights of vendors across the country through sustainable macro-level policy interventions. ...
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