Participation in project preparation : lessons from World Bank - assisted projects in India

The study assesses the extent to which the India program, is meeting the Bank ' s objective of mainstreaming participatory approaches, in project preparation, and design. From a variety of social, and natural resource management sectors, ten projects were selected, appraised during 1990 and 199...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vedeld, Trond
Corporate Author: Banco Mundial
Format: Book
Published: Washington, D.C. World Bank 2001
Series:World Bank discussion paper no. 423
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Executive summary
  • 1. Scope of the study
  • 2. Methodology
  • 3. Improvements in primary beneficiary participation
  • 4. Impacts of beneficiary participation and social assessments on design
  • 5. Participation in implementation: success stories from Andhra Pradesh
  • 6. Shortcomings in achieving participation
  • 7. In-country constraints to beneficiary participation
  • 8. Institutional constraints and the role of the World Bank
  • 9. Conclusions and operational recommendations
  • Annexes
  • List of boxes
  • List of tables