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Additional Background
Materials
If you have any additional materials related to local development you would like to broadly disseminate and share with conference participants, please send it to
lconference@worldbank.org
for posting on this web site.
"Advancing Local Development:
The Case of Indonesia" (215Kb
PDF)
"Contibution du Programme d’Actions Communautaires PAC - Niger. Processus d’Autonomisation des Communautes Locales"
(187Kb PDF)
Document
in Urdu (10.2 MB PDF)
about a Community Based Organization formed 61 years ago in the
village of Hullar Syeddan Bagh, Azad Jammu & Kashmir State
(AJK). Contributed by Zaheer Gardezi (CISP Project, AJK).
This document reveals that the concept of community organization/ participation is not a new thing for the people of AJK State. The people of the same village are nowadays running a number of community based social works. Particularly the CBO of the village is running a Water Supply system that has served the whole population of the village (2300) for the past 8 years, which was completed under a World Bank funded project in 1996 (RWSS-AJK ).
"Les Femmes Prennent la
Parole. Bilan et perspectives d’une expérience d’appui à l’accès des femmes aux postes de conseillers communaux à Dogbo
(Couffo)" (233Kb PDF)
"Smooth
Managing Website Columns" (233Kb
PDF) contributed by Piet Goovaerts
Village Participation in Rural Development Manual
(937kb pdf)
The African Network on Participatory Approaches, 2000
Hard copies are also available in English and French and may be requested by email at
lconference@worldbank.org.
Image courtesy of Dr. Sixtus C. Mulenga
and Konkola Copper Mines plc
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The World Bank recently sponsored the Scaling
Up Poverty Reduction: A Global Learning Process, and
Conference in Shanghai, May 25-27, 2004. The main
objective was to learn from both successful and less
successful attempts to reduce poverty – in all its
dimensions. It aimed at uncovering the economic, social,
and governance factors that enabled countries to achieve
poverty-reducing development results on a scale; sharing
these lessons across regions and countries; and
disseminating them widely through various new and
traditional media to policymakers, practitioners, and
researchers.
In the spirit of global sharing, the International Local
Development Conference would like to share some of the
local development case studies examples from around the
world that were identified and analyzed for the Shanghai
Conference. Obtaining policy lessons in development is
important for several reasons. Although some countries
have made significant progress in reducing poverty, many
continue to lag in attaining the health and education
aspects of the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs). An important agenda for
poverty reduction therefore continues to exist, and
therefore a global exchange of knowledge is necessary to
help countries and communities within countries learn
about what has worked, and what has not worked, in other
parts of the world. Examples of successful poverty
reduction have been associated with certain implementation
factors. The Global Learning Process and the Conference in
Shanghai discussed and analyzed these factors to help shed
light on how successful policies, programs and projects
may be scaled up from the local level to achieve
significant poverty reduction outcomes at the national and
regional levels.
The implementation factors are:
- Commitment and Political Economy for
Change
- Institutional Innovation
- Learning and Experimentation
- External Catalyst
There are two strategic pillars
indicating what governments and communities can do to
create a good environment for sustainable growth and
poverty reduction, and for ensuring that the development
process is inclusive:
- Investment climate
- Social inclusion
Analyzing how the implementation factors
and the strategic pillars interact allows us to understand
better how to successfully scale up programs, polices and
projects in order to reach significant poverty reduction
outcomes.
While there are 70 case studies, we have identified the
following case studies which we felt would be relevant in
keeping with the themes of the International Local
Development conference.
Access to Water
Community Driven Development / Social
Funds
Empowering Poor Women
Infrastructure Strategies and
Policies
Legal and Judicial Reform
Rural / Natural Resource Management
Securing Access to Land
In addition to the initial 15 case
studies above, the following may be of interest to you.
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