Good practice in the Chambok community-based ecotourism project in Cambodia / Va Moeurn, Lay Khim and Chhum Sovanny -- Promoting social mobilization and appropriate housing technologies for disaster mitigation and poverty reduction in Orissa, India / Anindya Kumar Sarkar and Pradeep Jena -- Upgrading housing as a strategy for poverty reduction : the case of Old Lhasa, Tibet, China / André Alexander ... [et al.] -- Poverty reduction through local economic development : 'pathway out of poverty' in Indonesia / Owais Parray and Abdurrahman Syebubakar -- Poverty reduction through rural-urban linkages : the case of the rural-urban partnership programme in Nepal / Ramesh Adhikari and Suresh Dhoj Shrestha -- One Tambon One Product, Thailand / Chudatip Ritruechai, Chaivej Nuchprayoon and Octavio B. Peralta -- Dairy projects in Afghanistan / Lutfullah Rlung -- Information and communications technology for poverty reduction : bringing technology to rural and disadvantaged communities in western China / Zhao Jinqiu -- How joint action can increase production while contributing to poverty reduction : the case of Frutika in Paraguay / Ramiro Rodriguez Alcala and Thomas Otter -- Poverty reduction and Millennium Development Goal localization : a case study of Ha Tinh rural development project in Vietnam / Tran Dinh Hoa and Nguyen Thanh Tung -- Good practice for poverty reduction in coconut growing communities in the Philippines / Pons Batugal, Erlene Manohar and Maria Luz George -- Community driven development to improve livelihoods : the 'Gemidiriya' project in Sri Lanka / Gamini Batuwitage and Neil Fernando -- Recent experience with the community voice card : an innovative tool for assessing service delivery for the Millennium Development Goals / Neela Mukherjee -- The P135 programme for socio-economic development of communes facing extreme difficulties in ethnic minority and mountainous areas in Vietnam / Tran Van Thuat and Ha Viet Quan -- Empowering women through home-based income-earning opportunities in Malaysia / Sheau Ching Chong and Audrey Desiderato -- Poverty reduction and Millennium Development Goal localization : a case study of the Income Generation for Vulnerable Group development programme in Bangladesh / Nahleen Zahra and Naomi Hossain -- Beating the odds : how Progresa/Oportunidades became Mexico's major poverty alleviation programme / Evelyne Rodriguez -- The Phil-Health Indigent Program : a locality-based health insurance programme for the poor in the Philippines / Ed Aurelio C. Reyes -- The VimoSEWA Self Employed Women's Association microinsurance programme, India / Tara Sinha and Lionel Siriwardena -- Sailing the Nile for the Millennium Development Goals : a yearly festival of development, human rights and volunteerism in Egypt / Layla Saad and Yasmine Mahmoud.
Summary:
"This book looks at twenty of the most innovative case studies of poverty reduction and Millennium Development Goal localization from fifteen countries. 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."--BOOK JACKET.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.