Participation in Project Preparation: Lessons from World Bank-assisted Projects in India, Parts 63-423

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World Bank Publications, 2001 M01 1 - 64 pages
This study analyzes the extent to which the India program is meeting the World Bank's objective of mainstreaming participatory approaches in project preparation and design. It includes ten projects in which participation was an overall project objective. These projects provided "good practice" lessons from a variety of social and natural resource management sectors.
 

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Page 5 - A process through which stakeholders influence and share control over development initiatives, and the decisions and resources which affect them
Page 24 - This much seems clear: effective change cannot be imposed from outside. Indeed, the attempt to impose change from the outside is as likely to engender resistance and barriers to change, as it is to facilitate change. At the heart of development is a change in ways of thinking, and individuals cannot be forced to change how they think. They can be forced to take certain actions. They can be even forced to utter certain words. But they cannot be forced to change their hearts or minds. (Stiglitz 1998...
Page 58 - The right to regulate internal patterns of use and transform the resource by making improvements Exclusion: The right to determine who will have an access right, and how that right may be transferred...
Page 6 - open-access resources" (res nullius, which is Latin for "no one's property"). The key concept here is "property." Property is a claim to a benefit (or income) stream, and a property right is a claim to a benefit stream that some higher body — usually the state — will agree to protect through the assignment of duty to others who may covet, or somehow interfere with, the benefit stream.
Page 64 - Community-Based Natural Resource Management: Connecting Micro and Macro Processes, and People with Their Environments', International Workshop on Community-Based Natural Resource Management, 10-14 May, Washington.
Page 64 - Participatory Poverty Assessment: Incorporating Poor People's Perspectives into Poverty Assessment Work.
Page 64 - The Development Dictionary A Guide to Knowledge as Power. Witwatersrand University Press Johannesburg and Zed Books Ltd. London. Salmen, L. F 1995a. "Beneficiary Assessment: Ал Approach Described.
Page 64 - Reducing Poverty in India. Options for More Effective Public Services. A World Bank Country Study. Washington, DC — . 2000. Attacking Poverty. World Development Report 2000/ 2001 . Oxford University Press, New York. . 2000. "Country Assistance Strategy.
Page 8 - They (the weak) then analyze, monitor and evaluate, make presentations, become consultants and trainers, organize themselves, and negotiate resolution of conflicts

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