UNESCO - Citizen Participation in Anti-Poverty Programmes

United Nations Secretariat throws 100 Million US$ a year down the drain for funding a useless Division - called UN-DESA-DPADM - Department of Economic and Social Affairs - Division of Public Administration and Development Management, who since the late Director Guido Bertucci left the Organization, have yet to find its niche.

DPADM only by name continues to be called Public Administration - but nothing what it does nowadays have anything to do with its mandate.

Since the Chinese took over - everything is about Information Management.

The only problem is that the new "theme" has long been taken and developed from another UN Agency - UNESCO.......

So why is UNDESA throwing all these resources on the same topic? ? ? ?

Soon Sha Zukang will be able to tell us about his plans. At the end he did premiss that UNDESA will change soon in his first and last town-hall meeting (two years ago)

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An Analysis of Citizen Participation in Anti-Poverty Programmes

Glenn A. Bowen
affiliation not provided to SSRN



Community Development Journal, Vol. 42, Issue 2, pp. 237-250, 2007

Abstract:
This article explores citizen participation, describing levels, forms and benefits of participation by local community members. In particular, it analyses citizen involvement in anti-poverty programmes, drawing on primary research in Jamaica, where a social fund forms a major plank of the national government's policy and programme to reduce poverty. Using naturalistic inquiry methods, the research sought evidence of citizen participation in social fund subprojects aimed at improving community infrastructure and social services and strengthening community organizations. This article discusses four types of participation revealed by the research and the implications for community-level approaches to economic improvement and social change.

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