Knowing Poverty

by Brock, Karen; McGee, Rosemary

• ISBN13: 9781853838996
• ISBN10: 1853838993
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-07-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The use of participatory research methods to provide policy-makers with information about poor people's perspectives on poverty became increasingly common in the 1990s. This, the first book to focus on the use of participatory techniques in poverty reduction policies, presents a series of participants' reflections on it. The 1990s witnessed a shift in the application of participatory methodologies, adding to the project-planning approaches of the 1980s a new focus on participatory research for policy. Much of this research centers on poverty issues. This volume, with contributions from the leading researchers and professionals, examines how participatory research has affected the way poverty is understood, and how these understandings have been acted on in making policy for poverty reduction.

Author Biography

Karen Brock is a researcher at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex. She has carried out research on natural resources management and agro-pastoral livelihoods in Africa, and is currently focusing on policy-making for poverty reduction, and the political economy of knowledge construction Rosemary McGee is a social development specialist with a background in anthropological research on poverty and policy, poverty assessment methodologies and policy advocacy. She is currently a fellow at IDS, working mainly on civil society participation in policy processes

Table of Contents

List of figures, tables and boxes	v
About the contributors	vi
Editors' acknowledgements	ix
List of acronyms and abbreviations	x
Introduction: Knowing poverty: Critical reflections on participatory research and policy	1	(13)
Karen Brock
The self in participatory poverty research	14	(30)
Rosemary McGee
Participatory analyses of poverty dynamics: Reflections on the Myanmar PPA	44	(25)
Paul Shaffer
Learning from Uganda's efforts to learn from the poor: Reflections and lessons from the Uganda Participatory Poverty Assessment Project	69	(30)
Jenny Yates
Leonard Okello
Who is listening? The impact of participatory poverty research on policy	99	(36)
Ahmed Adan
Karen Brock
Petia Kabakcheiva
Aklilu Kidanu
Marcus Melo
Carrie Turk
Haroon Yusuf
Power, knowledge and policy influence: Reflections on an experience	135	(31)
Robert Chambers
Retelling worlds of poverty: Reflections on transforming participatory research for a global narrative	166	(23)
Anne Rademacher
Raj Patel
Conclusion: Participatory poverty research: Opening spaces for change	189	(18)
Rosemary McGee
Index	207