Overcoming Human Poverty
İÇİNDEKİLERCONTENTSFOREWORD ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CHAPTER I THE COMMITMENTS TO POVERTY REDUCTION Governance: The Missing Link Meeting Capacity-Building Needs Social Summit Commitments Most Progress in Estimating Poverty Some Progress in Implementing Plans Little Progress in Setting Targets Setting Human Poverty Targets Tracking Short-Term Changes CHAPTER 2 DEVELOPING NATIONAL ANTI-POVERTY PLANS The Range of Poverty Plans Why a Plan? Beyond Targeted Interventions Where Is National Ownership? Are Poverty Programmes Manageable? Funding for Poverty Programmes CHAPTER 3 LINKING POVERTY TO NATIONAL POLICIES Combining National Policies and Targeted Interventions The Two-Track Approach Weak Links with Macroeconomic Policies Weak Links with Redistribution Policies CHAPTER 4 LINKING COUNTRIES' INTERNATIONA POLICIES TO POVERTY Linking Debt Relief to Poverty Reduction Harnessing Trade for Poverty Reduction Making Aid Work for the Poor CHAPTER 5 GOVERNANCE: THE MISSING LINK Promoting Accountability through Elections Improving Accountability in Finances Expanding Access to Information and Communication Making Decentralization Pro-poor CHAPTER 6 PRO-POOR LOCAL GOVERNANCE: THE NEGLECTED REFORMS Pro-poor Reforms in Local Governance Building Local Capacity for Poverty Reduction Capital Development and Local Government CHAPTER 7 THE POOR ORGANIZE: THE FOUNDATION FOR SUCCESS The Poor Organize Themselves Civil Society Organizations Working with Poor Communities Civil Society Organizations Influencing National Policy-Making CHAPTER 8 FOCUSING RESOURCES ON THE POOR Focusing on Geographical Areas Rehabilitating Poor Areas Reaching Disadvantaged Social Groups Targeting by Type of Intervention CHAPTER 9 INTEGRATING KEY ISSUES INTO POVERTY PROGRAMMES Weak Links with Gender Policies Weak Links with Environmental Policies Weak Links with Health Initiatives CHAPTER 10 MONITORING PROGRESS AGAINST POVERTY Producing Poverty Data More Frequently Moving to Evaluation Monitoring Income Poverty Monitoring Human Poverty Including the Poor in Poverty I Assessments COUNTRY PROFILES Benin: Comprehensive Monitoring Brazil: Reforming Social Expenditures to Be More Pro-poor Burkina Faso: Seeking Debt Relief to Increase Social Spending China: Two Decades of Poverty Reduction Dominican Republic: Governance Reforms Essential to Poverty Reduction The Gambia: A Campaign to Make Poverty Reduction Sustainable Ghana: Decentralizing to Districts Kyrgyzstan: A Pioneering National Poverty Programme Mali: Expecting to Channel Debt Reduction into Poverty Reduction Mauritania: Promoting Local Participation Mongolia: Channelling Resources through the Poverty Alleviation Fund Morocco: Regional Targeting for Poverty Reduction Mozambique: Overcoming Widespread Poverty Nepal: Focusing on Poverty Reduction through Decentralization Peru: National Poverty Programme Improves Its Targeting Philippines: Targeting Poor Families South Africa: Putting Poverty at the Top of the Development Agenda Thailand: A New Poverty-Focused Development Path Tunisia: Steady Progress against Poverty Uganda: From Decentralization to Participation Uzbekistan: Social Development and Slow Economic Reform Yemen: The Contribution of Poverty Reduction to Nation Building Zimbabwe: Creating a Poverty Reduction Forum 8.1 Building Communities in the Midst of Conflict in Sudan 8.2 UNDP's Emergency Response Division: Tackling the Roots of Crisis 8.3 The Beautiful Bulgaria Project: Rebuilding and Re-employing 8.4 Women Lead the Struggle for Ancestral Land in the Philippines 9.1 The Women's Development Fund Targets Poor Women in Mongolia 9.2 Multipurpose Platform Targets Women's Poverty in Mali 9.3 Sustainable Energy Development in Rural Nepal 10.1 Surveying Social Protection in Moldova 10.2 Mapping Poverty and Vulnerability in Maldives 10.3 Rapid Nutrition Monitoring in Bangladesh FIGURES 1.1 Average Annual Growth in Private  |
