Empowerment and Poverty Reduction A Sourcebook

Empowerment and Poverty Reduction: A Sourcebook is an outcome of World Development Report 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty, which highlighted opportunity, empowerment, and security as key elements in the creation and implementation of poverty reduction strategies. This book provides a framework for empowerment that concentrates on increasing poor peopleA's freedom of choice and action to shape their own lives. This framework pertains to five areas of action to improve development effectivenessA'provision of basic services, improved local governance, improved national governance, access to justice and legal aid, and pro-poor market development. This Sourcebook gives 20 A"Tools and Practices,A? which concentrate on a wide-range of topics to encourage the empowerment of the poor from poor peopleA's enterprises, information and communication technologies to diagnostic tools including corruption surveys and citizen report cards.Narayan, Deepa is the author of 'Empowerment and Poverty Reduction A Sourcebook' with ISBN 9780821351666 and ISBN 0821351664.