Community Empowerment and the Urban Poor’s Community Agricultural Garden Development

Community Empowerment for Sustainable Development in Iran

Preface: " Poverty is not simply a matter of material deprivation. It is a matter of human dignity, justice, fundamental freedoms and basic human rights. " 1-UNESCO The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) development community has arrived at a critical point in its approach to the issue of poverty alleviation and its ideal of poverty eradication. Despite valiant efforts on the part of the gover...

Southern African Development Community Regional Agricultural Policy

Empowerment: Community Economic Development from the Inside Out

Community economic development has achieved some enviable successes in both the US and Latin America. Community development corporations (CDCs) in the US are well networked among themselves and nurtured by a web of ® nancial intermediaries and technical assistance providers that channel resources and professional expertise to low-income neighbourhoods and communities across the country (see Wil...

The Impacts of Community Driven Development Interventions on Women’s Empowerment

1. This proposed Learning Product will review existing evidence of the impacts of community driven development (CDD) on women’s empowerment. It will analyze findings of World Bank Group-supported interventions in countries that have shown commitment to the community driven development approach (that is, have implemented more than one isolated project). It will also draw from the findings of sev...

Sustainable Community Development and Urban Design