Localizing development: does participation work?
Promoting participation through community development projects and local decentralization has become a central tenet of development policy. The World Bank alone has invested about $85 billion over the last decade on development assistance for participation. However, some observers feel that policy making in the area is conceptually weak, that project design is informed more by slogans than careful analysis. There have also been questions about whether participatory development is effective in r…
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- Full title :Localizing development : does participation work? / Ghazala Mansuri and Vijayendra Rao.
Summary
Promoting participation through community development projects and local decentralization has become a central tenet of development policy. The World Bank alone has invested about $85 billion over the last decade on development assistance for participation. However, some observers feel that policy making in the area is conceptually weak, that project design is informed more by slogans than careful analysis. There have also been questions about whether participatory development is effective in reducing poverty, improving service delivery, and building the capacity for collective action. Some observers also find that participatory projects are complex to implement and deeply affected by context, and are thus unsuited for large development institutions such as the World Bank. This groundbreaking report carefully examines each of these concerns. It outlines a conceptual framework for participation that is centered on the concept of civil society failure and how it interacts with market and government failures. The authors use this framework to understand the key policy debates surrounding participatory development and to frame the key policy questions. The report conducts the most comprehensive review of the evidence on the impact of participatory projects to date, looking at more than 400 papers and books. The report argues that participatory development is most effective when it works within a 'sandwich' formed by support from an effective central state and bottom-up civic action. This report represents an important contribution. It has significant implications for how to improve participation in development interventions and for development policy more broadly.
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- Publication Date:2013.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):World Bank
- Place of Publication:Washington, D.C
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013.
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- Description:xvii, 324 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780821382561, 082138256X, 9780821389904, 0821389904
- oclc:ocn489009684
- LC Classification:HD82
- Dewey Decimal:338.9
Table of Contents
Overview -- The history of participatory development and decentralization ; A conceptual framework for participation ; Empirical findings ; Moving beyond the evidence -- 1. Why does participation matter? -- The history of participatory development ; Organic versus induced participation ; Scope of the report and roadmap -- 2. A conceptual framework for participatory development -- Market failure ; Government failure ; Civil society failure -- 3. The challenge of inducing participation -- Participation and the capacity to engage ; Diagnosing failure triangles ; Deriving hypotheses -- 4. How important is capture? -- Corruption and local accountability ; Participation and resource allocation in induced community-driven development programs ; Participation and resource allocation under decentralization ; Can electoral incentives reduce rent-seeking? -- 5. Does participation improve development outcomes? -- Identification of beneficiaries ; Sustainable management of common-pool resources ; Participation and the quality of local infrastructure ; Community engagement in public service delivery ; The poverty impact of participatory projects -- 6. Does participation strengthen civil society…
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