Ownership and partnership
Subtitle: what role for civil society in poverty reduction strategies?
By: edited by Ian Smillie and Henri-Bernard Solignac Lecomte.
Contributors: Smillie, Ian.; Solignac Lecomte, Henri-Bernard.; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Development Centre.; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Development Assistance Committee.
Series: Development Centre studies
Publisher: Development Centre of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 101
Subjects: Poverty -- Developing countries.; Poverty -- International cooperation.; Public-private sector cooperation.
Description: Partnership Forums are the means by which the OECD Development Assistance Committee provides a venue for non-governmental actors to express their points of view and to offer their own contributions to development policy and strategy. In December 2000, the DAC and the Development Centre held a Forum on ways of integrating civil society into policy formation in developing countries, and to identify obstacles to such involvement. Participants agreed that civil society's role in poverty-reduction strategies had been an important element in succesful implementation. This book contains 8 papers presented at the Forum, covering experience in a variety of countries with a variety of stakeholders. The wide-ranging discussion concluded that civil-society participation in policy making not only enhances efficiency in implementation, but also contributes to the creation of more pluralistic and democratic political systems.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"This book is a collection of the proceedings of the Development Partnership Forum jointly organised by the Development Assistance Committee and the Development Centre of the OECD in December 2000" -- p. 3.
Also published in French under the title: Appropriation et partenariat.
Also available on the Internet.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Louka T. Katseli; title: Executive summary / Henny Helmich, Fritz Meijndert and John Simpson; title: Ch. 1. Changing partners; changing assumptions / Sylvia Borren; title: Ch. 2. National dialogue: the World Bank experience / Pablo Guerrero; title: Ch. 3. Civil society participation and the poverty eradication plan of Uganda / Walter Eberlei; title: Ch. 4. Civil society and the education system in Ghana. Decline in the Ghanaian education system / Emmanuel Kuyole ; Oxfam and Ghana's national education campaign coalition / Tony Burdon; title: Ch. 5. Gender, national budgeting and civil society in Tanzania. The Swedish approach to poverty reduction in development co-operation / Marja Ruohomäki ; Mainstreaming gender in national planning and budgeting processes: the case of Tanzania / Aggripina Mosha; title: Ch. 6. The idea of ownership, the reality of systems / Judith Randel; title: Ch. 7. Power relationships: government, the market and civil society / Sylvia Borren; title: Ch. 8. National dialogue: realistic expectations? / Ian Smillie.