Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers and the rhetoric of participation

Kamruzzaman, Palash

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“…There is no exact number and names of the tribal people with population. There are 45 different indigenous communities were mentioned [5].…”

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Socio-economic Condition of Plain Land Tribal People in Bangladesh

Toppo¹

2016

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The purpose of the paper is to depict socioeconomic condition of tribal people. The research is based on some primary data, which are collected from a structured questionnaire survey, interview, observation and focus group discussion and also on some secondary data which are collected from different sources. It is found that among tribal people, 60.94% households are involved in agricultural day labor activities. Around 22.14% household depend on their own cultivable land for production, 5.99% in various formal and non-formal service sectors (Offices support staff, Security guard and Garments factory), 2.34% of total sample HHs are involved in livestock rearing. 2.86% tribal households were found involved with small business activities (Petty shop, tea stall). Among the Mahali and Roabidas tribal community have their own tradition occupation e.g. cobbler, bamboo material small cottage etc. Regarding average monthly income of the households, majority (50.26%) of the households are up to 4000.00 BDT (U$ 50) per month. Only 3.13% reported that their income is more than 6000.00 BDT (≤ U$ 75).

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“…There is no exact number and names of the tribal people with population. There are 45 different indigenous communities were mentioned [5].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Socio-economic Condition of Plain Land Tribal People in Bangladesh

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2016

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“…Given this context, this paper focuses on exploring the nexus between participation and empowerment: whether participation enables or facilitates empowerment. Both participation (to counter the traditional top-down development approach and to ensure ownership of a development policy-see Kamruzzaman (2009) for more details) and empowerment (as an emancipatory goal for various development programmes) constitute integral elements of mainstream development policy and practice. A rigorous critical assessment in exploring the interconnections between these terms thus adds to and deepens the contemporary development scholarship in this regard.…”

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Exploring the Nexus Between Participation and Empowerment

Kamruzzaman

2020

Journal of Development Policy and Practice

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Theoretically, the idea of participation might appear to be replete with grand-sounding promises of empowerment for the poor and marginalised. But, in practice, participation may often take the form of enlisting people in various social and community development projects to secure the compliance of local people. In this paper, I offer a critical review of theoretical promises of participation and contrast this with a number of real-world examples. I argue that participation can be used for validating external approach and incorporated in social as well as community development projects to make it more cost-effective. In theory, giving voices to the poor is important but tokenistic inclusion can often be found in practice for cost-effectiveness. However, giving voices and/or cost efficiency arguments are not coherent with the ideas of empowerment while practices of participation often fail to address the issues of power among various actors, such as decision-makers, participation-seekers and participants. When participation is used as a prerequisite to secure fund or make the project cost-effective, empowerment of poor people does not seem to be a genuine priority. Therefore, empowerment through participation may remain lip-service.

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“…Despite countless critiques [ 15 , 16 , 21 , 22 ], participation remains a central principle in the field of development to enhance development effectiveness following the 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness [ 23 ]. Advocates argue that participation still has a strong contribution to make on conditions that it is carefully appraised by relinking it to its ideological origins of social transformation and empowerment of the poor and vulnerable [ 13 ].…”

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Measuring participation for persons with mental illness: A systematic review assessing relevance of existing scales for low and middle income countries

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BackgroundParticipation is increasingly becoming an important outcome for assessment in many fields, including development, disability and policy implementation. However, selecting specific instruments to measure participation has been a significant problem due to overlapping conceptual definitions and use of different theories. The objective of this paper is to identify participation instruments, examine theories/definition supporting their use and highlight scales for use in low and middle-income countries for persons with mental illness.MethodsA systematic literature review was conducted to identify instruments intended to measure participation for individuals with severe mental illness. The search was limited to peer-reviewed articles published in English between 2003 and 2014. Instruments that measured related concepts of well-being, quality of life and social functioning were also identified and screened for items that pertained to participation, defined as empowerment and collective capabilities.ResultsFive scales met established criteria for assessing participation and were determined to contain questions measuring empowerment and/or collective capabilities. However, each scale largely assessed individual functioning and capacity, while neglecting collective aspects of the community. All scales were developed in high-income countries and none were used in low and middle-income countries.ConclusionsThere is an urgent need for participation scales to focus on empowerment as well as collective capabilities. Further, development of participation scales should clearly delineate theoretical foundations and concepts used. Finally, participation scales used in low and middle income countries should consider how contextual factors like medicine, poverty and disability, particularly with regards to mental illness, impact content of the scale.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s40359-015-0093-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers and the rhetoric of participation

Cited by 25 publications

References 7 publications

Socio-economic Condition of Plain Land Tribal People in Bangladesh

Socio-economic Condition of Plain Land Tribal People in Bangladesh

Exploring the Nexus Between Participation and Empowerment

Measuring participation for persons with mental illness: A systematic review assessing relevance of existing scales for low and middle income countries

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