The World Bank, Participation and PRSP: The Bolivian Case Revisited

Molenaers, Nadia; Renard, Robrecht

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“…These efforts fell apart in 1985 when the economy collapsed and the government fell to the mercy of international lenders. The International Monetary Fund and World Bank mandate to adopt economic restructuring policies as a condition to receive loans gave a death blow to efforts of investing in the public health care system (Molenaers and Rendard ; Tejerina Silva et al. 2011).…”

Section: Bolivia's History Of Humanitarian Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

Travesti Subjectivity and HIV Care: the Collision of the Global LGBT Rights and Evangelical Ex‐Gay Movements in Bolivia

Heckert

2019

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

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Resumen Este articulo analiza las experiencias de ex‐travestis en Bolivian que dejaron su identidad travesti en favor de retornar a la vida de un hombre. Se concentra primeramente en la historia de la vida de José Luis‐Natalia, y en menor grado, dos otras ex‐travestis. Explorando el tema de porque una travesti decidiría ser hombre otra vez se revela que las experiences del cuidado del VIH tiene una influencia en la subjetividad de genero, porque el cuidado del VIH es un punto de colisión entre ideologías de género contradictorias. Este articulo muestra como la presencia de ideologías contradictorias esta conectada a la historia de Bolivia en la época después de la dictadura. Además, la relación entre Bolivia y las agencias de desarrollo internacionales han contribuido a un auge en las ONGs en Bolivia que facilitó la habilidad de organizaciones GLBT y evangélicas a ser actores importantes en las intervenciones del VIH. Etnográficamente, este articulo interroga como las travestis y ex‐travestis experimentan el apoyo recibido por estas organizaciones y como estas experiencias se influyen la subjetividad de genero.

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Section: Bolivia's History Of Humanitarian Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

Travesti Subjectivity and HIV Care: the Collision of the Global LGBT Rights and Evangelical Ex‐Gay Movements in Bolivia

Heckert

2019

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

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“…Furthermore, there were many development cooperation organizations active whose discourses and practices had already embraced participation in the early 1990s. Thus, prior to the PRSP process, numerous social organizations and development organizations had developed initiatives promoting participation, thereby setting the stage for the process (Molenaers & Renard, 2003). In addition, there were the government's so-called second-generation reforms of the 1990s thatin contrast with the fi rst-generation reforms of the 1980s which were focused on meeting the macroeconomic policy conditions associated with the structural adjustment programs -included the Law of Popular Participation (Ley de Participación Popular, Gobierno de Bolivia, 1994).…”

Section: The Poverty Reduction Strategy Papermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…On the basis of these considerations, it was decided that the HIPC process had reached its completion point and debt relief was hence granted irreversibly (IMF & WB, 2001). However, other observers, especially staff from bilateral donors that were involved in the PRSP process, were much less impressed by the participatory process and criticized the government's lack of commitment to genuine inclusive dialogues (Molenaers & Renard, 2003).…”

Section: The Poverty Reduction Strategy Papermentioning

confidence: 99%

Planning and Natural Resources in Bolivia

Pellegrini

2012

Journal of Developing Societies

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This article focuses on participation in the main planning documents produced in Bolivia in the fi rst decade of the 2000s: the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) and the National Development Plan (PND). We analyze how these planning instruments have been able to capture popular participation through diverse mechanisms and how these practices fi t in the current mainstream participation discourse. Special attention is paid to natural resources because of the predominant role they have in the Bolivian economy and because of their substantial contribution to the state budget. The Bolivian experience refl ects an apparent paradox: While the process leading to the PRSP followed participatory guidelines and the PND did not, the resulting PRSP failed to include the most pressing demands of social movements, while the PND succeeded in including them. This case shows how the articulation of political processes escapes simplistic characterizations and how the application of "out of the textbook" participation may result in highly exclusionary outcomes. It also shows that the voice of social movements can take unexpected paths and have a profound infl uence on political events that go well beyond the possibility of standardized participatory processes.

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“…Although these have been important in placing poverty reduction and engagement with civil society at the core of development policy initiatives (Booth 2003), they have also been widely criticised especially in relation to the role of civil society and NGOs 7 . Case studies from around the world have highlighted that the nature of partnerships among donors, government agencies and NGOs have been at best shallow and limited (Bradshaw and Linneker 2003; Fraser 2005; Ishkanian 2006; Molenaers and Renard 2003). Although civil society has routinely been consulted in the design of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers in various countries, there is little evidence anywhere that civil society has been able to influence policy to any significant extent.…”

Section: Civil Society In Practice: the Role Of Ngos In Development Pmentioning

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From Local to Global to Transnational Civil Society: Re‐Framing Development Perspectives on the Non‐State Sector

McIlwaine

2007

Geography Compass

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This article outlines the meanings of civil society covering theoretical and development policy debates. It traces the evolution of conceptualisations of civil society noting how diversity in type, function and scale are critical in understanding these changes. The role of non‐governmental organisations within development policy is explored highlighting how the euphoria over civil society has been tempered over time, reflecting how Gramscian interpretations have begun to replace neo‐Tocquevillian viewpoints. The article also examines how civil society operates over different scales from local to global to transnational, assessing and critiquing the rise of global civil society or what is more appropriately called ‘transnational civil society’. The article finishes by highlighting the importance of diasporic civil society in relation to migrant groups especially from a development viewpoint as well as the need for more research on this issue. Conceptually, the article argues for a more sophisticated Gramscian interpretation of civil society that also recognises the importance of spatiality in the complex interpenetration between an increasingly extra‐territorialised state and an increasingly transnational civil society. Thus, it presents a re‐framing of development perspectives on the non‐state sector from local to global to transnational scales.

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The World Bank, Participation and PRSP: The Bolivian Case Revisited

Cited by 30 publications

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Travesti Subjectivity and HIV Care: the Collision of the Global LGBT Rights and Evangelical Ex‐Gay Movements in Bolivia

Travesti Subjectivity and HIV Care: the Collision of the Global LGBT Rights and Evangelical Ex‐Gay Movements in Bolivia

Planning and Natural Resources in Bolivia

From Local to Global to Transnational Civil Society: Re‐Framing Development Perspectives on the Non‐State Sector

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