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From Users and Choosers to Makers and Shapers: Repositioning Participation in Social Policy

Published by: IDS

In this paper, we take up these questions. We explore an approach to social policy that sees citizens not only as users or choosers, but as active participants who engage in making and shaping social policy and social provisioning.

Voices of the Poor: Crying Out for Change

Published by: Oxford University Press

This book is based on the realities of poor people. It draws upon research conducted in 1999 involving 20,000 poor women and men from 23 countries.

From Poverty Assessment to Policy Change: Processes, Actors and Data

Published by: IDS

This paper focuses on the production of poverty knowledge through measurement and assessment, providing an overview of contemporary poverty assessment approaches, and the issues and dilemmas involved in applying them in the context of poverty reduction policy processes.

Dynamics and Diversity: Soil Fertility and Farming Livelihoods in Africa

The management of Africa's soils is one of the major challenges facing agriculture and livelihoods in the 21st century. Policies to address this trend to assume that soils are being degraded on a large scale, and farmers' practices often contribute to a 'downward spiral' of degradation and poverty - a familiar narrative of negative environmental change.

The New Dynamics of Aid: Power, Procedures and Relationships

Published by: IDS

Effective poverty reduction requires narrowing the gap between words and actions, making trust and accountability real within and between organisations, at all levels and between all actors. Aid agencies today are shifting emphasis from projects and service delivery to a language of rights and governance.

Sustainable Rural Livelihoods in Bangladesh

Published by: IDS

This Report is based on research from the IDS environment team on Sustainable Rural Livelihoods in Bangladesh.

¿Quién da cuenta de la realidad? Monitoreo y evalucación participativos: revisión bibliográfica

Published by: IDS

Resumen Con el aumento en las oportunidades para promover una mayor participación en el desarrollo, crece también el reconocimiento de que el monitoreo y la evaluación deben ser participativos.

El Seguimiento y Evaluacion Participativos: ¿Como Aprender Del Cambio?

Published by: IDS

Las organizaciones promotoras del desarrollo necesitan saber qué tan efectivos han sido sus esfuerzos. ¿Pero quién debe hacer estos juicios, y con qué fundamentos? Normalmente son los expertos externos los que se encargan de esta misión.

¿Pueden los pobres ser copartícipes de las estrategias de reducción de la pobreza?

Published by: IDS

En un nuevo enfoque anunciado por el Banco Mundial y el FMI, se ofrece a la sociedad civil un papel en la definición y puesta en práctica de las estrategias nacionales en contra de la pobreza. Con el fin de tener acceso a reducciones en sus deudas, se pide a los países que prepaen un documento de Estrategia de Reducción de la Pobreza, fundamentado en contribuciones de todos los sectores de la sociedad.

In Search of a New Impetus: Practitioners’ Reflections on PRA and Participation in Kenya

Published by: IDS

From tentative beginnings in the late 1980s, Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) has spread through Kenya 'like a bushfire'. In response to growing demand for 'doing participation', PRA has been popularised and marketised to such an extent that, as one Kenyan practitioner put it, 'everyone is doing something and calling it PRA'.