This book focuses on the World Bank's experience with Participatory Poverty Assessments (PPAs). Some practitioners have … past experiences. Participatory poverty assessments are showing the World Bank and other outside observers of poverty that … are not the only poverty experts. Poor people have a long overlooked capacity to contribute to the analysis of poverty …

The second edition of this book outline show to include the poor using the Participatory Poverty Assessment (PPA …

A Participatory Poverty Assessment (PPA) was undertaken by the World Bank in collaboration with the Government of Kenya … to complement previous statistical studies of poverty in Kenya. While the PPA confirmed many findings of the Welfare … Monitoring Survey (WMS), it also revealed significant new data concerning poverty, female-headed households, access by the poor …

on poverty. -- decentralisation ; Uganda ; poverty reduction ; participation ; efficiency …It is often claimed that decentralisation is effective for the reduction of poverty due to inherent opportunities for … higher popular participation and increased efficiency in public service delivery. This paper is a qualitative assessment of …

Despite its evident importance relatively little is known about links between Body Mass Index (BMI) and participation … paper attempts to fill this void and examines the association between BMI and participation in, duration of employment in …

Governments struggle with the reality that the beneficiaries of anti-poverty programs are powerless to influence …

' participation, LGU-CSO engagement, and integration of GPB process in the local planning process; and to identify bottlenecks in the …