Empowerment is the process of increasing the capacity of individuals or groups to make choices and to transform those choices into desired actions and outcomes.
Cross Case Analysis on Empowerment [get by e-mail] December 31, 2004 This paper provides insights into empowerment outcomes of development projects by applying a cross-case analytic framework. It employs...
This review examines how far Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRSs) provide opportunities for stakeholder empowerment. It focuses on the empowerment of local organizations and non-state actors, such as civil society, the private sector and poor and vulnerable people.
This article discusses how the IFC-managed Mekong Project Development Facility helped revive one of Cambodia’s key industries, rice production, by supporting millers’ associations in eight provinces.
This report contrasts the effects of foreign aid on developing countries when it is imposed from abroad and when it supports a country's own development strategy.
This paper proposes and analyzes an intergenerational model of domestic violence (IMDV) in which behavioral strategies or scripts are transmitted from parents to children.
This report analyzes the detrimental effects of corruption in transition countries, traces its sources and develops a multi-pronged strategy to fight corruption.
This report introduces two micro-level tools, the Public Expenditure Tracking Survey (PETS) and the Quantitative Service Delivery Survey (QSDS), which can be used to assess the quantity and quality of frontline service delivery from public, private not-for-profit, and private for-profit providers.
This paper explores the relationship between micro-credit and the reduction of poverty and
vulnerability by focussing on BRAC, one of the largest micro-credit providers in Bangladesh.
