"Introduced in Bolivia a little over a decade ago, social funds
have become a key community-led poverty reduction tool. A departure
from traditional government-sponsored approaches, social funds
encourage communities and local institutions to take the lead in
identifying and carrying out small-scale investments, generally in
social infrastructure such as schools, health clinics, and
small-scale water supply and sanitation.
The social fund model has proved to be a dynamic, replicable
approach, easily adapted and scaled up in diverse countries around
the world. In Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Eastern
Europe, and Asia, social funds have now absorbed close to $10
billion in foreign and domestic financing. Despite their
popularity, the effectiveness of social funds as a mechanism for
improving welfare has remained largely unmeasured. This study is
the first systematic cross-country impact evaluation of social
funds using survey data and accepted evaluation methodologies. The
research, carried out in Armenia, Bolivia, Honduras, Nicaragua,
Peru, and Zambia, addresses four fundamental questions: Do social
funds reach poor areas and poor households?Do social funds deliver
high-quality, sustainable investments?Do social funds affect living
standards?How cost-efficient are social funds and the investments
they finance, compared with other delivery mechanisms?
The result of important new World Bank research, this book will
be of interest to social policy practitioners and analysts, to
academics and students of development, and to anyone interested in
current thinking on poverty reduction strategies."
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