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This paper is a narrative account and assessment of the Grassroots Participatory Budgeting (GPB) process in three municipalities of the Negros Province, namely, Sagay City, Hinigaran and Cauayan. The GPB process was implemented with the objective of empowering civil society organizations to...
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It is widely believed that the social contract, credited to Magna Carta of England in the 13th century and subsequent thinkers such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, is the major factor that has empowered the concept of civil society in the world, starting from the West. This perspective paper...
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Bangladesh, that provide rural people with access to telecommunications. The two mechanisms that are examined here are considered …-Private Partnership in Peru complies with all of the three criteria, the Business-NGO partnership in Bangladesh complies with the first … Bangladesh. The success of the Business-NGO Partnership implies that the eplication of such a mechanism might require the pre …
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Non-formal schools play an increasingly important role in the delivery of educational services in poor communities, but little systematic evidence is available about their placement choices. We study location choice of "one teacher, one classroom" non-formal primary schools pioneered by BRAC...
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with authoritarian decades in Latin America; and, for societies like Bangladesh, whether the presence of Ummah undermines …, civil society organisations in Bangladesh, especially the development NGOs, have also reflected a western normative … CSOs to reveal the tension between voice and loyalty, and ask whether Bangladesh will continue to be a natural state regime …
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Microfinance services have emerged as an effective tool for financing micro-entrepreneurs to alleviate poverty. Since the 1970s, development theorists have considered non-governmental microfinance institutions (MFIs) as the leading practitioners of sustainable development through financing...
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