This article shows how to use preintervention data collected for evaluating the SIF to improve the targeting of a program, to test the quality of the evaluation design, and to define corrective measures if necessary.
This article examines the relation between poor women and men and common property resources (cprs). It locates poor people's use of cprs within a wider focus on sustainable livelihoods, which argues that development initiatives need to build on people's assets and strengths, and identifies cprs as a crucial element of poor people's coping and adaptive strategies.
This volume of case studies has been put together with the intention of promoting mutual learning among those concerned with advancing civil society solutions for development and poverty reduction.
This reports that the Malawi Social Action Fund (MASAF) is a quick-disbursing facility which routes money directly to communities. One of the main emphases of the project is to improve and strengthen the capacity of beneficiary communities to identify, prioritize, supervise, monitor, maintain and operate projects.
This research shows that dynamic processes exist which can motivate pollution reduction. In the cases analyzed, community actions play a key role in pressuring the state to take action against polluting firms.
This paper analyzes the implications community participation has on education and examines World Bank practices related to community participation in education.
This paper analyzes the targeting and impact of FONCODES investments in the education sector using various descriptive and econometric techniques, including nonparametric regressions, differences-in-differences, and instrumental variables estimators. It shows that FONCODES projects in the education sector have reached poor districts and, to the extent they live in those districts, poor households. FONCODES has had a positive effect on school attendance rates for young children, but not on the likelihood that children will be at an appropriate school level for their age.
