This study explores how international organizations (IOs) shape ideas about poverty and antipoverty policymaking in subSaharan Africa (SSA). It argues that, beyond the use of conditionality, IOs significantly influence conceptions of poverty in SSA through various mechanisms, including technical assistance, personnel training, and capacity building; collaborating with civil society organizations; publications; conferences; seminars; and as think tanks. The analysis focuses on the World Bank (WB)and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), two organizations that have had a long-standing relationship with SSA countries and have made significant contributions to development in the region. However, unlike the WB, whose activities in SSA are well known, the OECD's role in SSA is much less known. Therefore, this study broadens the discussion of the role of IOs in domestic policy development in SSA by incorporating the OECD. At the same time, the study offers a comparative perspective missing from empirical studies about IOs, which tend to focus on only one organization at a time.
Images of poverty shape the debate surrounding it. In 1996, then President Bill Clinton signed welfare reform legislation repealing the principal federal program providing monetary assistance to poor families, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). With the president's signature, this originally non-controversial program became the only title of the 1935 Social Security Act to be repealed. The legislation culminated a retrenchment era in welfare policy that began in the early 1980s. To understand completely the welfare policy debates of the last half of the 20th century, the various images of poor people that were present must be considered. Visions of Poverty explores these images and the policy debates of the retrenchment era, recounting the ways in which images of the poor appeared in these debates, relaying shifts in images that took place over time, and revealing how images functioned in policy debates to advantage some positions and disadvantage others. Looking to the future, Visions of Poverty demonstrates that any future policy agenda must first come to terms with the vivid, disabling images of the poor that continue to circulate. In debating future reforms, participants—whose ranks should include potential recipients—ought to imagine poor people anew. This ground-breaking study in policymaking and cultural imagination will be of particular interest to scholars in rhetorical studies, political science, history, and public policy.
Non-Governmental Development Organizations (NGDOs) have, over the past two decades, entered center stage in their active participation in the social, political, and economic issues affecting both the developing and developed world. This book offers a highly stimulating and concise summary of the NGDO sector by examining its history and metamorphosis, and its influence on the social, political, and economic landscapes of the "Northern" and "Southern" governments and societies. The author analyzes competing theoretical and conceptual debates not only regarding their contribution to the global social political dynamism but also on the sector’s changing external influence as they try and mitigate poverty in marginalized communities. This book presents NGDOs as multidimensional actors, propelled by the desire to make a lasting change but constrained by market-oriented approaches to development and other factors both internal and external to their environment. While a lot of attention has been given to understanding international NGDOs like World Vision International, Oxfam, Care International, and Plan International, this book offers a critical analysis of grassroots organizations—those NGDOs founded and established by locals and operating at the deepest end of the development context. This work will be of interest to students and scholars in a range of areas, including development studies, international organizations, and globalization.
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) was established in 1975. IFPRI is one of 15 agricultural research centers that receives its funding from governments, private foundations, and international and regional organizations, most of which are members of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research.
"A 2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture, and the Environment" is an initiative of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) to develop a shared vision and a consensus for action on how to meet future world food needs while reducing poverty and protecting the environment. Through the 2020 Vision Initiative, IFPRI is bringing together divergent schools of thought on these issues, generating research, and identifying recommendations.
The study sought to examine the impact of civil society organizations on poverty reduction in Uganda: a case study of World Vision, Rukungiri District. The study objectives were to identify the roles played by civil society organizations towards poverty reduction in Uganda, to establish the challenges faced by civil society organizations in Uganda and to assess the solutions to overcome the challenges facing civil society organizations towards poverty reduction in Uganda. The study applied a cross-sectional research design to reflect aspects of perception, feelings, experiences, facts, and emotional feelings of the study respondents in examining the impact of civil society organizations on poverty reduction in Uganda. This was because the research questions that were generated necessitated observing explanatory, descriptive, and analytical aspects of the research. The study population involved 58 participants, and this will include World Vision top authorities and staff, CSOs beneficiaries, Rukungiri District Local Government administrators, and local peasants who were found available. A sample size of 50 respondents was determined through purposive and random sampling methods. Data was collected from primary and secondary sources using questionnaires and interviews. After collecting data, the researcher organized a well-answered questionnaire. The data was edited and sorted for the next stage. The data was presented in tabular form, pie charts, and bar graphs with frequencies and percentages. The study findings revealed that 4% of the respondents strongly disagreed, 14% of the respondents disagreed, and 18% of the respondents were not sure. 44% agreed and the remaining 20% of the respondents strongly agreed that civil society organizations promote political participation. This implies that most respondents were aware of the vital role played by civil society organizations in promoting political participation within the community, hence contributing towards poverty reduction. The study concludes that civil society organizations promote political participation through educating people about their rights and obligations as citizens, and this can help to fight against poverty among the people. The study recommends that there is a need for the provision of education to all so as to fight the illiteracy levels, which proved to be one of the challenges hindering effective implementation of CSO operations. There is a need for CSOs to intervene so as to create a market for the products of people dealing in small business investments so as to boost their income. There is a need for the government of Uganda to develop the political environment.
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