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Power and poverty: the Shapla Neer experience

Power and poverty: the Shapla Neer experience This report to the Poverty, Prosperity and Progress conference examines the village–level development programmes of Shapla Neer, a Japanese NGO which has been operating in Bangladesh since independence in 1971. Shapla Neer’s experiences offer hard–won lessons for development practitioners: the need for effective targeting; the desirability of self–employment as a livelihood option for poor households; the necessity of close monitoring; the need to target women; and the need for the poor to gain a political voice. An overarching lesson is that development programmes will be most successful when their design is based on an understanding of the relationship between power and poverty. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asia Pacific Viewpoint Wiley

Power and poverty: the Shapla Neer experience

Scheyvens, Henry
Asia Pacific Viewpoint , Volume 43 (3) – Dec 1, 2002
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Wiley
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Victoria University of Wellington 2002
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1360-7456
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1467-8373
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10.1111/1467-8373.00180_2
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This report to the Poverty, Prosperity and Progress conference examines the village–level development programmes of Shapla Neer, a Japanese NGO which has been operating in Bangladesh since independence in 1971. Shapla Neer’s experiences offer hard–won lessons for development practitioners: the need for effective targeting; the desirability of self–employment as a livelihood option for poor households; the necessity of close monitoring; the need to target women; and the need for the poor to gain a political voice. An overarching lesson is that development programmes will be most successful when their design is based on an understanding of the relationship between power and poverty.

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Asia Pacific Viewpoint – Wiley

Published: Dec 1, 2002

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