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Title: Institutionalizing Participatory Poverty Assessment (PPA) and Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (PME)   Created: 7/23/2002 11:31
Outlines the next steps to be taken in order to mainstreaming PPA and PME. Key to this is the importance of building on indigenous/local knowledge and creative/innovative practices that already exist....
Author(s): Working Group from Decentralization and Community Empowerment in Africa Workshop   © World Bank

Title: Decentralization and Community Empowerment in Africa: Session Report on Community Empowerment and Accountability   Created: 7/23/2002 11:48
Enhancing community empowerment through strengthening participation, particularly of vulnerable groups, in policy processes (covering decision making, implementation, monitoring and evaluation)....
Author(s): Working Group from Decentralization and Community Empowerment in Africa Workshop   © World Bank

Title: Decentralization and Community Empowerment in Africa: Session Report - Institutionalizing Community Participation in Local Governance   Created: 7/23/2002 13:26
Identifies the steps necessary to make development at local levels consonant with the needs and priorities of local people....
Author(s): Working Group from Decentralization and Community Empowerment in Africa Workshop   © World Bank

Title: District Poverty Initiative Project   Created: 7/23/2002 15:00
Outlines the approaches used to meet the goal of improving opportunities “for poor and vulnerable people, especially women, to meet their own social and economic development objectives.” It asserts that successful monitoring and learning system should include performance tracking, institutional tracking, internal learning and project evaluation and...
Author(s): Madhya Pradesh   © unknown

Title: Empowering Communities to Drive Their Development and Hold Government Accountable: Empowering Councils and Sub-District Structures   Created: 7/25/2002 14:32
This case study of Kaputa, Mbala and Luwingu, Northern Province of Zambia emphasizes the challenge faced by many local governments in Zambia and the rest of Africa- how to manage the interface between the sub-district (community) level development dynamics, the local government and the macro-economic environment. The paper has three parts, the firs...
Author(s): Margaret Machila

Title: Democratizing Fiscal Policymaking: Holding Public Officials to Account   Created: 7/25/2002 15:50
The paper establishes that one of the cardinal demands of present democratic engagements is transparency in macroeconomic and fiscal policy making. Governments are obligated to let citizens know how fiscal resources are generated, allocated and spent. Openness of this process provides the stimulus for good governance and a strong basis for public d...
Author(s): William Ahadzie   © William Ahadzie

Title: Democratizing Fiscal Policymaking: Holding Public Officials to Account   Created: 7/25/2002 15:53
The presentation establishes that one of the cardinal demands of present democratic engagements is transparency in macroeconomic and fiscal policy making. Governments are obligated to let citizens know how fiscal resources are generated, allocated and spent. Openness of this process provides the stimulus for good governance and a strong basis for p...
Author(s): William Ahadzie   © William Ahadzie

Title: Local Level Institutions and Local Level Organizing for Community Development   Created: 7/25/2002 15:58
This presentation outlines briefly the objectives, tools and instruments of a study conducted in Kenya to evaluate the nature, activities, and impact of a variety of local level institutions....
Author(s): Gertrude Kopiyo   © Gertrude Kopiyo

Title: Challenges of Civic participation in Municipality Governance in Kabwe   Created: 7/25/2002 16:12
Presentation discusses civil society, a "self understanding" workshop, stakeholder awareness, civic participation, concensus building, resources available to/from civic society, NGO, Governement, and private sector support of civic society, and mechanisms for participation....
Author(s): Margaret Machila   © Margaret Machila

Title: Participation, Citizenship and Local Governance   Created: 7/26/2002 13:42
This paper will very briefly explore literature related to the dynamics and methods of strengthening community-based participation in the context of programs for democratic decentralization. It will discuss the differing concepts of participation, and their intersection; examine the evidence related to the barriers to participation in local governa...
Author(s): John Gaventa and Camilo Valderrama

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