ABSTRACT

�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

part II|51 pages

Local Economic Development

chapter 4|13 pages

Poverty Reduction through Local Economic Development

‘Pathway out of Poverty' in Indonesia

chapter 5|18 pages

Poverty Reduction through Rural–Urban Linkages

The Case of the Rural–Urban Partnership Programme in Nepal

part III|89 pages

Agriculture and Rural Development for Poverty Reduction

chapter 7|19 pages

Dairy Projects in Afghanistan

chapter 8|18 pages

Information and Communications Technology for Poverty Reduction

Bringing Technology to Rural and Disadvantaged Communities in Western China

chapter 10|19 pages

Poverty Reduction and Millennium Development Goal Localization

A Case Study of Ha Tinh Rural Development Project in Vietnam

part IV|73 pages

Localization of Millennium Development Goals and Monitoring

part V|60 pages

Social Safety Nets and Microfinance

chapter 16|14 pages

Poverty Reduction and Millennium Development Goal Localization

A Case Study of the Income Generation for Vulnerable Group Development Programme in Bangladesh 1

chapter 17|16 pages

Beating the Odds

How Progresa/Oportunidades Became Mexico's Major Poverty Alleviation Programme

chapter 18|15 pages

The Phil-Health Indigent Program

A Locality-Based Health Insurance Programme for the Poor in the Philippines

part VI|18 pages

Community Mobilization and Advocacy for the Millennium Development Goals

chapter 20|16 pages

Sailing the Nile for the Millennium Development Goals

A Yearly Festival of Development, Human Rights and Volunteerism in Egypt