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
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