The Impact of NGO Poverty Alleviation Projects
Author: Roger Riddell
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780850031928
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Roger Riddell
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780850031928
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Roger Riddell
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →There has been considerable interest in recent years in the abil ty of non-governmental organizations to work with the rural poor in developing countries in order to improve their quality of life and economic status through the provision of credit, skills training, and other inputs for income-generation programmes. This book brings together the results of sixteen evaluations in four countries (Bangladesh, India, Uganda and Zimbabwe) to provide a detailed assessment of the contribution that NGOs make to rural poverty alleviation. The results indicate that NGO projects are successful when they build in a high degree of participation, when the staff are committed to the goals of the project, and when they are managed by strong and competent leaders. Many of the projects studied contributed to increases in income and welfare. Programmes designed to provide economic benefits also proved effective in improving the social status of the poor. However, not all projects were successful, contrary to received wisdom about the efficacy of NGO interventions. Many failed to reach the very poorest, most were costly to implement, and few of the projects demonstrated an ability to continue once external funding was withdrawn. These findings provide strong support for viewing NGOs as a mechanism for helping to reduce rural poverty, but also demonstrate that many of the interventions are isolated or one-off. The impact of NGOs could be heightened by increasing the size of the intervention, encouraging greater cooperation among NGOs, and by fostering closer co-operation with governments.
Author: M.L. Narasaiah
Publisher: Discovery Publishing House
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9788171419432
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Non-governmental organisations have become the new hope of development cooperation. Criticism of official and multi-lateral development assistance in mounting. After more than for decades of international cooperation, there is more poverty in the Third World (with the exception of a few countries) than ever before. It has become clear that existing instruments cannot bring about change. Even the large donor organisations doubt their own ability to solve problems and find their doubts confirmed by internal evaluations. What led to this state of affairs, and is there reason to hope that the NGOs can do a better job?
Author: Robyn Eversole
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-07-08
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1317468732
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Over six billion dollars in developmental assistance is funneled annually through non-governmental organizations (NGOs), yet little is understood about the nature of their relationship with communities and the real impact of their work. This book examines what role NGOs really play in fighting poverty in Latin America. Expert NGO professionals and scholars explore grass-roots relationships between international religious and secular NGOs and poor communities. They probe the power structures, cultural assumptions, dangers and possibilities that underlie NGOs' work. While fighting poverty is the mission of many NGOs, most are aware that they often fail to make things better, and, in fact, may make things worse. By providing a forum for Northern and Southern NGOs, donors, scholars, and poor people themselves, this book explores the causes and cures of poverty, and presses at the boundaries of our understanding of participatory development. It identifies both internal and external factors that influence the success of NGO projects, and moves beyond standard best-practice theory to probe more deeply the relationships that underlie poverty and how these relationships can be shifted to achieve solutions.
Author: Susanne Neubert
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780714681511
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study of the impact of poverty alleviation programmes considers the state of research on evaluation; illustrates the evolution of evaluation in the field of development co-operation; and shows analyzing methods.
Author: D. Rajasekhar
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9788180690907
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines the efforts made by the NGOs in alleviating poverty, with special reference to India.
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Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 132
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Bangladesh country papers and report of the CIRDAP-ESCAP National Workshop on Government-NGO Cooperation for Poverty Alleviation: Capability Building to Alleviate Rural Poverty under Economic Adjustments, held at Dhaka, Bangladesh, 16 Sept. 1997.
Author: Gerald Akame Mbwoge
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Published: 2014-03
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9783659193286
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Poverty is still a big challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa and the world at large, with children and women being the highest vulnerable. Many people die every day of hunger yet there is sufficient quantity of food in the World to feed everyone. This poses a big problem because the poor are unable to afford their basic needs. With a situation of this sort, international Organizations like the United Nations, the World Bank, governments and Non-Governmental Organizations are putting in great efforts to curb its prevalence. This work examines specifically, the role the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) plays in alleviating poverty in Tombel Sub-Division in Cameroon. Through the use of questionnaires and interview guides, findings revealed that WWF is encouraging various livelihood activities and many are benefiting in financial and material terms, which has gone a long way to improve the economic life of the people and thus help in alleviating poverty. Some policy implications include increasing the funds allocated to various projects in order to facilitate Community-Based Organizations and encouraging governments to take poverty reduction as a primary development agenda.
Author: Paul Steele
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-05-04
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 113655937X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book provides an excellent framework to analyse the experience of a wide variety of successful initiatives across the world and draws attention to critical issues that practitioners need to think about when designing poverty reduction interventions and scaling up. Bill Tod, Regional MDG Adviser, SNV Asia With its wide regional coverage, and frank discussions of issues and problems encountered in designing projects that directly tackle poverty, this will be a very useful reference book for NGOs, INGOs, and also for multilateral institutions. Johanna Boestel, Country Economist, Asian Development Bank, Sri Lanka Resident Mission We are now at the midpoint for achieving the Millennium Development Goals and the objective of halving poverty by 2015. Despite commendable efforts and much progress, up to 750 million people are still living in absolute poverty. To lift these people out of poverty, macro-economic policies must be complemented by targeted and local level poverty reduction. This book looks at twenty of the most innovative case studies of poverty reduction and Millennium Development Goal localization from fifteen countries - Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal, Paraguay, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam - covering diverse issues ranging from housing and tourism to socio-economic empowerment of women, health insurance and markets for livestock produce. Many of the cases started as small scale interventions by NGOs, donors or government pilots but now they are being scaled up to form part of national policy or replicated across their respective countries. Yet why do some work while others do not? What are the stumbling blocks and how can they be overcome? And what lessons and principles are there for replicating and scaling up poverty reduction initiatives worldwide? This book tackles these questions and more, and presents a wealth of knowledge, evidence and ideas for all practitioners and researchers working to reduce poverty at the local level while aiming to achieve a global impact. Published with UNDP