Localizing development : does participation work? / by Ghazala Mansuri and Vijayendra Rao.
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| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
World Bank,
2013.
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| Series: | World Bank policy research report.
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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?
- Participatory decision making and social cohesion in induced development projects ; Representation quotas and inclusion mandates ; Community-driven reconstruction ; Participatory councils and deliberative spaces
- 7. Conclusion: How can participatory Interventions be improved?
- The importance of context ; Donors, governments, and trajectories of change ; Open research questions ; Monitoring, evaluation, and attention to context : results of a survey of World Bank projects ; The need for better monitoring and evaluation and different project structures.