Why do some local poverty reduction initiatives work while others fail? And why can some be replicated and scaled up to the national or wider level to achieve a massive impact and help millions escape the 'poverty trap'?This book looks at twenty of the most innovative case studies of poverty reduction and Millennium Development Goal (MDG) localization from 15 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.Key questions are: Why do some interventions 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 world-wide? 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 but who want to have a global impact.The first book to explain why some development projects work, others fail and how success can be replicated and up-scaled anywhere. It offers cutting edge analysis from experts at UNDP, provides steps for success that can be replicated in any local context to achieve poverty reduction. It provides fresh evidence from 15 countries in Asia, North Africa and Latin America.
Pt. I Employment generation and participatory area development
1 Good practice in the Chambok community-based ecotourism project in Cambodia by Va Moeuru and Lay Khim and Chhum Sovanny 3
2 Promoting social mobilization and appropriate housing technologies for disaster mitigation and poverty reduction in Orissa, India by Anindya Kumar Sarkar and Pradeep Jena 21
3 Upgrading housing as a strategy for poverty reduction : the case of Old Lhasa, Tibet, China by Andre Alexander and Pimpim de Azevedo and Lundup Dorje and An Li 45
Pt. II Local economic development
4 Poverty reduction through local economic development : 'pathway out of poverty' in Indonesia by Owais Parray and Abdurrahman Syebubakar 57
5 Poverty reduction through rural-urban linkages : the case of the rural-urban partnership programme in Nepal by Ramesh Adhikari and Suresh Dhoj Shrestha 71
6 One Tambon One Product, Thailand by Chudatip Ritruechai and Chaivej Nuchprayoon and Octavio B. Peralta 89
Pt. III Agriculture and rural development for poverty reduction
7 Dairy projects in Afghanistan by Lutfullah Rlung 109
8 Information and communications technology for poverty reduction : bringing technology to rural and disadvantaged communities in western China by Zhao Jinqiu 129
9 How joint action can increase production while contributing to poverty reduction : the case of Frutika in Paraguay by Ramiro Rodriguez Alcala and Thomas Otter 147
10 Poverty reduction and Millennium Development Goal localization : a case study of Ha Tinh rural development project in Vietnam by Tran Dinh Hoa and Nguyen Thanh Tung 161
11 Good practice for poverty reduction in coconut growing communities in the Philippines by Pons Batugal and Erlene Manohar and Maria Luz George 181
Pt. IV Localization of Millennium Development Goals and monitoring
12 Community driven development to improve livelihoods : the 'Gemidiriya' project in Sri Lanka by Gamini Batuwitage and Neil Fernando 199
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