[URBANTH-L]advocacy planning/citizen participation and antipovertyefforts

[Brinda.Dalal at parc.com]

Rae,

The following might provide some insight in regard to women,
micro-credit, and housing and shelter issues in Bombay, India.

Arjun Appadurai's paper on Deep Democracy might be a useful start. A
draft version may be found here: http://www.sdinet.org/reports/r10.htm 

Appadurai discusses the work of the Non-Governmental Organization called
SPARC and affiliated organizations. SPARC's publications, which go back
to 1984, can be found here:
http://www.sparcindia.org/Frame/fpublications.html (Note that these do
not provide a critique as such)

In a similar vein, grassroots efforts on issues around shelter in South
Africa:
http://www.ar.utexas.edu/planning/forum/vol9PDFs/wilsonlowery.pdf 

Brinda Dalal

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Subject: [URBANTH-L]advocacy planning/citizen participation and
antipovertyefforts

I've just received the following query from a student in my department.
Can anyone suggest some useful leads?  Much appreciated---Rae Bridgman

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"I am writing a paper which explores antipoverty efforts and whether
advocacy planning and citizen participation in the past have been
successful in incorporating concerns of the poor (including the
homeless)
into some form of action. I will probably look at examples that have
been
unsuccessful and successful.  I was wondering if you would know of any
good sources (articles or books) that would be useful."

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