dc.contributor.author | Joshi, Anuradha | |
dc.contributor.author | Moore, Mick | |
dc.coverage.spatial | Nepal | en_GB |
dc.coverage.spatial | India | en_GB |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-11-03T14:10:38Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-11-03T14:10:38Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2000 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Joshi, A. and M. Moore (2000) The mobilising potential of anti-poverty programmes. Discussion paper series, 374. Brighton: IDS. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/4983 | |
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_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Institute of Development Studies | en_GB |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | IDS discussion papers;374 | |
dc.rights.uri | http://www.ids.ac.uk/files/dmfile/IDSOpenDocsStandardTermsOfUse.pdf | en_GB |
dc.subject | Participation | en_GB |
dc.subject | Politics and Power | en_GB |
dc.subject | Poverty | en_GB |
dc.subject | Rights | en_GB |
dc.subject | Water | en_GB |
dc.subject | Work and Labour | en_GB |
dc.title | The mobilising potential of anti-poverty programmes | en_GB |
dc.type | IDS Discussion Paper | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | IDS | en_GB |
dc.identifier.koha | 119304 | |