Enhancing People’s Participation

Seamus Cleary

Chapter 9 in Poverty and the Transition to a Market Economy in Mongolia, 1995, pp 144-157 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Much recent discussion of the role of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in development grew out of the increasing frustration of many donors at the apparent failure of existing delivery methods to benefit the poorest of the poor. In many cases, bilateral donors attributed this failure to venal and corrupt governments, more interested in increasing the wealth of their own client groups than improving the lot of the poor. The growing debate around questions of governance, public accountability, and democratisation focused increasing attention on NGOs and their claim of greater efficacy. They frequently asserted that the top-down project cycle was characteristic of the vast majority of development projects. By contrast, they claimed, their own approach was based upon a participatory partnership with the grassroots, empowering the latter with a sense of ownership. Much of this debate was further confused by lack of clarity over what an NGO was.1

Keywords: Civil Society; Market Economy; Poverty Alleviation; Participatory Development; Executive Organisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1995
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-23960-3_9

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