Fighting poverty with facts : community-based monitoring systems /

Reyes, Celia.

Fighting poverty with facts : community-based monitoring systems / by Celia Reyes and Evan Due. - Ottawa : International Development Research Centre, 2009. - 1 online resource (xviii, 104 pages) : illustrations - - In focus . - In focus (International Development Research Centre (Canada)) .

Available also on the Internet.

Includes bibliographical references.

pt. 1. The issue and development context -- pt. 2. The approach -- pt. 3. Experiences from the field -- pt. 4. Lessons and recommendations -- pt. 5. Ways forward.

For more than two decades, governments and development agencies around the world have focused on reducing poverty. There have been advances, but progress has been uneven and nearly a quarter of the world's population still suffers from extreme "income poverty." Income poverty, however, is only part of the picture. A multi-faceted account of poverty and human welfare incorporates elements that go beyond income to capture the characteristics of poverty as experienced by the poor themselves. This book presents the Community-Based Monitoring System (CBMS). CBMS recognizes that the poor must be inv

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Poverty--Research--Citizen participation.--Developing countries
Poverty--Research--Methodology.
Poor--Developing countries.
Community development--Developing countries.
Pauvreté--Recherche--Participation des citoyens.--Pays en voie de développement
Pauvreté--Recherche--Méthodologie.
Pauvres--Pays en voie de développement.
Développement communautaire--Pays en voie de développement.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Poverty & Homelessness.
Community development
Poor
Poverty--Research--Methodology


Developing countries

HC59.72.P6 / R49 2009eb

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