Participatory governance for poverty reduction

✍ Scribed by Hartmut Schneider

• Book ID: 101287880
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 131 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0954-1748
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1328(199906)11:4<521::aid-jid599>3.0.co;2-j

✦ Synopsis

Conventional poverty reduction strategies have produced disappointing results in many instances, especially in situations of high initial inequality which tend to re¯ect political obstacles to broad-based development. Participatory governance draws on insights from political and institutional economics and from experiments promoted by social activists. It represents a paradigm shift based on the trilogy of empowerment, accountability and capacity building which constitute the interdependent building blocks of participatory governance. Their role is threefold: i) to ensure that policy makers and their administration are more committed than they tend to be in nonparticipatory governance settings; ii) to base policies on better information; and iii) to make the implementation of policies more eective and ecient. 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.