Title: Localizing development : does participation work? /
Authors: Mansuri, Ghazala; Rao, Vijayendra.; World Bank
Publisher: World Bank,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Economic development Citizen participation; Economic development projects Citizen participation.; Community development.; Decentralization in government.
Contents: Overview -- The history of participatory development and decentralization ; A conceptual framework for participation ; Empirical findings ; Moving beyond the evidence -- 1. Why does participation matter? -- The history of participatory development ; Organic versus induced participation ; Scope of the report and roadmap -- 2. A conceptual framework for participatory development -- Market failure ; Government failure ; Civil society failure -- 3. The challenge of inducing participation -- Participation and the capacity to engage ; Diagnosing failure triangles ; Deriving hypotheses -- 4. How important is capture? -- Corruption and local accountability ; Participation and resource allocation in induced community-driven development programs ; Participation and resource allocation under decentralization ; Can electoral incentives reduce rent-seeking? -- 5. Does participation improve development outcomes? -- Identification of beneficiaries ; Sustainable management of common-pool resources ; Participation and the quality of local infrastructure ; Community engagement in public service delivery ; The poverty impact of participatory projects -- 6. Does participation strengthen civil society? -- Participatory decision making and social cohesion in induced development projects ; Representation quotas and inclusion mandates ; Community-driven reconstruction ; Participatory councils and deliberative spaces -- 7. Conclusion: How can participatory Interventions be improved? -- The importance of context ; Donors, governments, and trajectories of change ; Open research questions ; Monitoring, evaluation, and attention to context : results of a survey of World Bank projects ; The need for better monitoring and evaluation and different project structures