Poverty reduction that works : experience of scaling up development success / edited by Paul Steele, Neil Fernando and Maneka Weddikkara.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Employment generation and participatory area development -- 1. Good practice in the Chambok community-based ecotourism project in Cambodia / Va Moeuru, Lay Khim, Chhum Sovanny -- 2. Promoting social mobilization and appropriate housing technologies for disaster mitigation and poverty reduction in Orissa, India / Anindya Kumar Sarkar, Pradeep Jena -- 3. Upgrading housing as a strategy for poverty reduction : the case of Old Lhasa, Tibet, China / Andre Alexander, Pimpim de Azevedo, Lundup Dorje, An Li -- Part II. Local economic development -- 4. Poverty reduction through local economic development : 'pathway out of poverty' in Indonesia / Owais Parray, Abdurrahman Syebubakar -- 5. Poverty reduction through rural-urban linkages : the case of the rural-urban partnership programme in Nepal / Ramesh Adhikari, Suresh Dhoj Shrestha -- 6. One Tambon One Product, Thailand / Chudatip Ritruechai, Chaivej Nuchprayoon, Octavio B. Peralta -- Part III. Agriculture and rural development for poverty reduction -- 7. Dairy projects in Afghanistan / Lutfullah Rlung -- 8. Information and communications technology for poverty reduction : bringing technology to rural and disadvantaged communities in western China / Zhao Jinqiu -- 9. How joint action can increase production while contributing to poverty reduction : the case of Frutika in Paraguay / Ramiro Rodriguez Alcala, Thomas Otter -- 10. Poverty reduction and Millennium Development Goal localization : a case study of Ha Tinh rural development project in Vietnam / Tran Dinh Hoa, Nguyen Thanh Tung -- 11. Good practice for poverty reduction in coconut growing communities in the Philippines / Pons Batugal, Erlene Manohar, Maria Luz George George, Maria Luz -- Part IV. Localization of Millennium Development Goals and monitoring -- 12. Community driven development to improve livelihoods : the 'Gemidiriya' project in Sri Lanka / Gamini Batuwitage, Neil Fernando -- 13. Recent experience with the community voice card : an innovative tool for assessing service delivery for the Millennium Development Goals / Neela Mukherjee -- 14. The P135 programme for socio-economic development of communes facing extreme difficulties in ethnic minority and mountainous areas in Vietnam / Tran Van Thuat, Ha Viet Quan -- 15. Empowering women through home-based income-earning opportunities in Malaysia / Sheau Ching Chong, Audrey Desiderato -- Part V. Social safety nets and microfinance -- 16. Poverty reduction and Millennium Development Goal localization : a case study of the Income Generation for Vulnerable Group development programme in Bangladesh / Nahleen Zahra, Naomi Hossain -- 17. Beating the odds : how Progresa /Oportunidades became Mexico's major poverty alleviation programme / Evelyne Rodriguez -- 18. The Phil-Health Indigent Program : a locality-based health insurance programme for the poor in the Philippines / Ed Aurelio C. Reyes -- 19. The VimoSEWA Self Employed Women's Association microinsurance programme, India / Tara Sinha, Lionel Siriwardena -- Part VI. Community mobilization and advocacy for the Millennium Development Goals -- 20. Sailing the Nile for the Millennium Development Goals : a yearly festival of development, human rights and volunteerism in Egypt / Layla Saad, Yasmine Mahmoud.

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