Can Participation Be Induced? Some Evidence from Developing Countries
The World Bank has allocated close to $80 billion towards participatory development projects over the last decade. A comprehensive review of the evidence on the efficacy of the approach conducted by the authors for the forthcoming Policy Research R...
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okr-10986-119732021-04-23T14:02:58Z Can Participation Be Induced? Some Evidence from Developing Countries Mansuri, Ghazala Rao, Vijayendra ACCOMMODATION ACCOUNTABILITY AID AUDITS BENEFICIARIES BLOCK GRANTS BUILDING LOCAL CAPACITY CIVIL RIGHTS CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT CLINICS COMMUNITIES COMMUNITY BASED DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY BASED NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT COMMUNITY CAPACITY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT COMMUNITY MEETINGS COMMUNITY MEMBERS COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION COMPANION CORRUPTION COUNTERFACTUAL DECENTRALIZATION DECISIONMAKING DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES DISADVANTAGED GROUPS ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS EDUCATION SYSTEMS ENGINEERS EXCLUSION EXTERNALITIES FACILITATORS FLEXIBILITY GENDER GENDER DISPARITIES GRAMEEN BANK HEALTH SERVICES HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLDS IMPLEMENTING AGENCIES INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS INTERVENTION INTERVENTIONS LEARNING LIVELIHOOD LIVELIHOODS LIVING STANDARDS LOCAL CAPACITY LOCAL COMMUNITIES LOCAL GOVERNMENT LOCAL GOVERNMENTS LOCAL MANAGEMENT LOCAL MANAGEMENT CAPACITY LOCAL PARTICIPATION LOCALITIES M&E SYSTEMS MANDATES MONITORING TEAMS MULTILATERAL AGENCIES MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENTS NATURAL RESOURCES NEIGHBORHOOD NEIGHBORHOODS NUTRITION PARTICIPATORY APPROACH PARTICIPATORY DEVELOPMENT PARTICIPATORY MONITORING PARTICIPATORY PROCESS PARTICIPATORY PROCESSES PARTICIPATORY PROJECTS POLICY INITIATIVES POVERTY REDUCTION PROGRAMS PROJECT APPRAISAL PROJECT EVALUATION QUALITY OF PUBLIC SERVICES QUALITY OF SERVICES REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT BANKS RENTS RESOURCE ALLOCATION SAVINGS SCHOOLS SELF HELP SERVICE DELIVERY SERVICE QUALITY SETTLEMENT SMS SOCIAL CAPITAL SOCIAL COHESION SOCIAL FUNDS SOCIAL INCLUSION SOCIAL INTERACTIONS SOCIAL MOVEMENTS SOCIAL STRUCTURE SOCIAL STRUCTURES SOCIETY STEREOTYPES TARGETING TOLERANCE URBAN COMMUNITIES VILLAGE COUNCILS VILLAGES WORTH The World Bank has allocated close to $80 billion towards participatory development projects over the last decade. A comprehensive review of the evidence on the efficacy of the approach conducted by the authors for the forthcoming Policy Research Report, Localizing Development: Does Participation Work?, finds that while participatory projects have been reasonably effective in improving access to basic services, there is far less evidence of their effectiveness in improving household income or in building sustainable participatory institutions at the local level. A key issue is that the institutional culture in development agencies such as the World Bank lacks the flexibility and long-term commitment necessary for effective externally induced participatory development. Induced participation -- driven by large-scale bureaucratically managed processes, is quite different from more organic types of participation endogenously organized by civic groups. It requires a very different approach to development, one that pays close attention to contextual variation and to uncertain trajectories of change. In order to be effective, induced participatory projects need a strong focus on learning-by-doing; on monitoring and evaluation and a willingness to learn from failure. A review of the World Bank's practices in monitoring and evaluation, and of its incentives to learn from failure, reveals that without significant changes, including changes in the incentive structures facing management, the Bank cannot be effective in inducing participation. 2012-12-11T22:57:08Z 2012-12-11T22:57:08Z 2012-07 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/07/16520074/can-participation-induced-some-evidence-developing-countries http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11973 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper; No. 6139 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research |
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ACCOMMODATION ACCOUNTABILITY AID AUDITS BENEFICIARIES BLOCK GRANTS BUILDING LOCAL CAPACITY CIVIL RIGHTS CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT CLINICS COMMUNITIES COMMUNITY BASED DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY BASED NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT COMMUNITY CAPACITY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT COMMUNITY MEETINGS COMMUNITY MEMBERS COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION COMPANION CORRUPTION COUNTERFACTUAL DECENTRALIZATION DECISIONMAKING DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES DISADVANTAGED GROUPS ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS EDUCATION SYSTEMS ENGINEERS EXCLUSION EXTERNALITIES FACILITATORS FLEXIBILITY GENDER GENDER DISPARITIES GRAMEEN BANK HEALTH SERVICES HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLDS IMPLEMENTING AGENCIES INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS INTERVENTION INTERVENTIONS LEARNING LIVELIHOOD LIVELIHOODS LIVING STANDARDS LOCAL CAPACITY LOCAL COMMUNITIES LOCAL GOVERNMENT LOCAL GOVERNMENTS LOCAL MANAGEMENT LOCAL MANAGEMENT CAPACITY LOCAL PARTICIPATION LOCALITIES M&E SYSTEMS MANDATES MONITORING TEAMS MULTILATERAL AGENCIES MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENTS NATURAL RESOURCES NEIGHBORHOOD NEIGHBORHOODS NUTRITION PARTICIPATORY APPROACH PARTICIPATORY DEVELOPMENT PARTICIPATORY MONITORING PARTICIPATORY PROCESS PARTICIPATORY PROCESSES PARTICIPATORY PROJECTS POLICY INITIATIVES POVERTY REDUCTION PROGRAMS PROJECT APPRAISAL PROJECT EVALUATION QUALITY OF PUBLIC SERVICES QUALITY OF SERVICES REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT BANKS RENTS RESOURCE ALLOCATION SAVINGS SCHOOLS SELF HELP SERVICE DELIVERY SERVICE QUALITY SETTLEMENT SMS SOCIAL CAPITAL SOCIAL COHESION SOCIAL FUNDS SOCIAL INCLUSION SOCIAL INTERACTIONS SOCIAL MOVEMENTS SOCIAL STRUCTURE SOCIAL STRUCTURES SOCIETY STEREOTYPES TARGETING TOLERANCE URBAN COMMUNITIES VILLAGE COUNCILS VILLAGES WORTH |
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ACCOMMODATION ACCOUNTABILITY AID AUDITS BENEFICIARIES BLOCK GRANTS BUILDING LOCAL CAPACITY CIVIL RIGHTS CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT CLINICS COMMUNITIES COMMUNITY BASED DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY BASED NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT COMMUNITY CAPACITY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT COMMUNITY MEETINGS COMMUNITY MEMBERS COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION COMPANION CORRUPTION COUNTERFACTUAL DECENTRALIZATION DECISIONMAKING DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES DISADVANTAGED GROUPS ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS EDUCATION SYSTEMS ENGINEERS EXCLUSION EXTERNALITIES FACILITATORS FLEXIBILITY GENDER GENDER DISPARITIES GRAMEEN BANK HEALTH SERVICES HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLDS IMPLEMENTING AGENCIES INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS INTERVENTION INTERVENTIONS LEARNING LIVELIHOOD LIVELIHOODS LIVING STANDARDS LOCAL CAPACITY LOCAL COMMUNITIES LOCAL GOVERNMENT LOCAL GOVERNMENTS LOCAL MANAGEMENT LOCAL MANAGEMENT CAPACITY LOCAL PARTICIPATION LOCALITIES M&E SYSTEMS MANDATES MONITORING TEAMS MULTILATERAL AGENCIES MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENTS NATURAL RESOURCES NEIGHBORHOOD NEIGHBORHOODS NUTRITION PARTICIPATORY APPROACH PARTICIPATORY DEVELOPMENT PARTICIPATORY MONITORING PARTICIPATORY PROCESS PARTICIPATORY PROCESSES PARTICIPATORY PROJECTS POLICY INITIATIVES POVERTY REDUCTION PROGRAMS PROJECT APPRAISAL PROJECT EVALUATION QUALITY OF PUBLIC SERVICES QUALITY OF SERVICES REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT BANKS RENTS RESOURCE ALLOCATION SAVINGS SCHOOLS SELF HELP SERVICE DELIVERY SERVICE QUALITY SETTLEMENT SMS SOCIAL CAPITAL SOCIAL COHESION SOCIAL FUNDS SOCIAL INCLUSION SOCIAL INTERACTIONS SOCIAL MOVEMENTS SOCIAL STRUCTURE SOCIAL STRUCTURES SOCIETY STEREOTYPES TARGETING TOLERANCE URBAN COMMUNITIES VILLAGE COUNCILS VILLAGES WORTH Mansuri, Ghazala Rao, Vijayendra Can Participation Be Induced? Some Evidence from Developing Countries |
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Policy Research Working Paper; No. 6139 |
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The World Bank has allocated close to
$80 billion towards participatory development projects over
the last decade. A comprehensive review of the evidence on
the efficacy of the approach conducted by the authors for
the forthcoming Policy Research Report, Localizing
Development: Does Participation Work?, finds that while
participatory projects have been reasonably effective in
improving access to basic services, there is far less
evidence of their effectiveness in improving household
income or in building sustainable participatory institutions
at the local level. A key issue is that the institutional
culture in development agencies such as the World Bank lacks
the flexibility and long-term commitment necessary for
effective externally induced participatory development.
Induced participation -- driven by large-scale
bureaucratically managed processes, is quite different from
more organic types of participation endogenously organized
by civic groups. It requires a very different approach to
development, one that pays close attention to contextual
variation and to uncertain trajectories of change. In order
to be effective, induced participatory projects need a
strong focus on learning-by-doing; on monitoring and
evaluation and a willingness to learn from failure. A review
of the World Bank's practices in monitoring and
evaluation, and of its incentives to learn from failure,
reveals that without significant changes, including changes
in the incentive structures facing management, the Bank
cannot be effective in inducing participation. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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Mansuri, Ghazala Rao, Vijayendra |
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Mansuri, Ghazala Rao, Vijayendra |
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Mansuri, Ghazala |
| title |
Can Participation Be Induced? Some Evidence from Developing Countries |
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Can Participation Be Induced? Some Evidence from Developing Countries |
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Can Participation Be Induced? Some Evidence from Developing Countries |
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Can Participation Be Induced? Some Evidence from Developing Countries |
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Can Participation Be Induced? Some Evidence from Developing Countries |
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can participation be induced? some evidence from developing countries |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2012 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/07/16520074/can-participation-induced-some-evidence-developing-countries http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11973 |
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