ABSTRACT
This book centers around an intense debate among donors, policymakers, development practitioners, and academics on the efficacy of aid in eradicating poverty while promoting human development.
It seeks to fill the gap in present literature by presenting stories of better spending through implementing Sustainable Development Goals and addressing Agenda 2030 via indigenization of global development goals with initiatives at local and national levels. The book adopts an innovative approach to dealing with aid effectiveness by highlighting the relevance of better spending, rather than excessive spending. It does so with real-life examples of interventions made in the Global South to realize the vision of "thinking globally and acting locally". These case studies speak to the significance of communities’ role in shouldering responsibility for planning, financing, operating, and maintaining local developmental initiatives. The examples also demonstrate how aid serves its purpose when used as an investment in communities and enterprising individuals, in order to realize the strategic impact of giving and build a local "receiving mechanism" for indigenizing and achieving global development goals.
The book references cases of better spending by governments, philanthropists, and civil society organizations (CSOs) from across Asia, Africa, and Latin America on a range of issues and will, thus, be of interest to development practitioners, policymakers, donors, philanthropists, civil society organizations, and academics and students of international development studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|16 pages
Citizens, state, and markets
part II|43 pages
Frameworks for better spending
chapter 2|25 pages
Anatomy of an effective development operation
part III|74 pages
South Asian landscape
chapter 4|17 pages
Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty (SERP)
chapter 5|15 pages
An inspirational story
part IV|30 pages
Resilient communities in fragile states
chapter 9|14 pages
Community-driven development as a mechanism for realizing global development goals
chapter 10|14 pages
Multidimensional poverty measurement and aid efficiency
part V|50 pages
Non-zero options for local development
chapter 12|15 pages
From more spending to better spending
chapter 13|14 pages
Don’t spend more, spend better
part VI|3 pages
Global South in the Global North
part VII|9 pages
Social capital