allAfrica.com: Africa: Is the Bank's Attitude Towards Participatory Development Changing?: "Looking at quantitative evaluations of various participatory development projects (both within and outside the Bank) that are touted to help reduce poverty and inequalities, improve service delivery and build capacity for collective community action, Mansuri and Rao not only push the World Bank to accept what is not working in their approach and admit mistakes, but also bring to the fore key challenges and possible solutions.
In their report, Mansuri and Rao distinguish between "induced" and "organic" participation, where one is driven by external agents (by pumping in money/resources), while the other occurs 'naturally' (arising out of the needs and initiative of the community).
Recognition of this difference is important, given that the World Bank alone has invested over $85 billion on development assistance for participation.
For such induced participation to be effective and sustainable, the World Bank and other external agents need to change their approach to development- to one that is long-term, context sensitive, accepts failure and learns from mistakes. The reasons behind this are:"
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Friday, April 12, 2013
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