Empowering Poor Communities through Decentralized Decision Making : The Vietnam Community Based Rural Infrastructure Project

Vietnam made remarkable progress in poverty reduction in the 1990s. Poverty rates decreased from 58% to 37% between 1993 and 1998. The reduction in poverty rates among indigenous people (who constitute 13% of the population and mostly live in remot...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Brief
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	ACCOUNTABILITY BENEFICIARIES BENEFICIARY PARTICIPATION CADRES CAPACITY BUILDING CITIZENS COMMUNITIES COMMUNITY FACILITATORS CONSULTATION DECENTRALIZATION DECISION MAKING DECISION-MAKING DECREE DECREES DEMOCRACY DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS DISTRICTS ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES EXPENDITURES FACILITATORS INCOME INDEPENDENT MONITORING INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS LOCAL COMMUNITIES LOCAL GOVERNMENT LOCAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION MINISTRY OF FINANCE NATURAL RESOURCES NGO PARTICIPATORY MONITORING PARTICIPATORY PROCESS PERFORMANCE INDICATORS POSTERS POVERTY RATES POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION PROGRAMS PROJECT IMPACTS PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROJECT MANAGEMENT UNIT PROJECT OBJECTIVES PUBLIC INFORMATION REPRESENTATIVES RESOURCE ALLOCATION RISK MANAGEMENT SOCIAL ASSESSMENT SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIALLY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT STATE BUDGET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TRANSPARENCY POOR COMMUNITIES DECENTRALIZATION OBJECTIVES RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE MONITORING & EVALUATION APPROACH POVERTY REDUCTION OBJECTIVES INDIGENOUS PEOPLES ENVIRONMENT CAPACITY BUILDING PROCESS COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS DECISION MAKING PROCESSES
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/07/2817623/empowering-poor-communities-through-decentralized-decision-making-vietnam-community-based-rural-infrastructure-project http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11374

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spelling	okr-10986-113742021-04-23T14:02:55Z Empowering Poor Communities through Decentralized Decision Making : The Vietnam Community Based Rural Infrastructure Project World Bank ACCOUNTABILITY BENEFICIARIES BENEFICIARY PARTICIPATION CADRES CAPACITY BUILDING CITIZENS COMMUNITIES COMMUNITY FACILITATORS CONSULTATION DECENTRALIZATION DECISION MAKING DECISION-MAKING DECREE DECREES DEMOCRACY DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS DISTRICTS ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES EXPENDITURES FACILITATORS INCOME INDEPENDENT MONITORING INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS LOCAL COMMUNITIES LOCAL GOVERNMENT LOCAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION MINISTRY OF FINANCE NATURAL RESOURCES NGO PARTICIPATORY MONITORING PARTICIPATORY PROCESS PERFORMANCE INDICATORS POSTERS POVERTY RATES POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION PROGRAMS PROJECT IMPACTS PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROJECT MANAGEMENT UNIT PROJECT OBJECTIVES PUBLIC INFORMATION REPRESENTATIVES RESOURCE ALLOCATION RISK MANAGEMENT SOCIAL ASSESSMENT SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIALLY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT STATE BUDGET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TRANSPARENCY POOR COMMUNITIES DECENTRALIZATION OBJECTIVES RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE MONITORING & EVALUATION APPROACH SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT POVERTY REDUCTION OBJECTIVES INDIGENOUS PEOPLES ENVIRONMENT CAPACITY BUILDING PROCESS COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS DECISION MAKING PROCESSES Vietnam made remarkable progress in poverty reduction in the 1990s. Poverty rates decreased from 58% to 37% between 1993 and 1998. The reduction in poverty rates among indigenous people (who constitute 13% of the population and mostly live in remote areas) has been less remarkable. During the same period, the poverty incidence has gone down from 84% to 75%, leaving their poverty rates more than twice as high as that of the majority group, i.e. the Kinh group. In response, the Government has initiated several targeted poverty reduction programs to reduce poverty. One of these is "Program 135" to support mountainous and remote communes. Communes, which are clusters of villages, are the lowest level of government or local administration in Vietnam. Program 135 was established in 1998 to provide resources to more than 1,700 of the poorest communes for small infrastructure improvements and capacity building of local governments. The Community Based Rural Infrastructure Project (CBRIP) builds on the Government's initiative, but offers a somewhat different approach to infrastructure development - one that is more demand driven and promotes a greater role in decision making by beneficiaries. 2012-08-13T14:53:42Z 2012-08-13T14:53:42Z 2001-07 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/07/2817623/empowering-poor-communities-through-decentralized-decision-making-vietnam-community-based-rural-infrastructure-project http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11374 English Social Development Notes; No. 66 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Brief Publications & Research East Asia and Pacific Vietnam
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topic	ACCOUNTABILITY BENEFICIARIES BENEFICIARY PARTICIPATION CADRES CAPACITY BUILDING CITIZENS COMMUNITIES COMMUNITY FACILITATORS CONSULTATION DECENTRALIZATION DECISION MAKING DECISION-MAKING DECREE DECREES DEMOCRACY DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS DISTRICTS ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES EXPENDITURES FACILITATORS INCOME INDEPENDENT MONITORING INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS LOCAL COMMUNITIES LOCAL GOVERNMENT LOCAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION MINISTRY OF FINANCE NATURAL RESOURCES NGO PARTICIPATORY MONITORING PARTICIPATORY PROCESS PERFORMANCE INDICATORS POSTERS POVERTY RATES POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION PROGRAMS PROJECT IMPACTS PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROJECT MANAGEMENT UNIT PROJECT OBJECTIVES PUBLIC INFORMATION REPRESENTATIVES RESOURCE ALLOCATION RISK MANAGEMENT SOCIAL ASSESSMENT SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIALLY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT STATE BUDGET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TRANSPARENCY POOR COMMUNITIES DECENTRALIZATION OBJECTIVES RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE MONITORING & EVALUATION APPROACH SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT POVERTY REDUCTION OBJECTIVES INDIGENOUS PEOPLES ENVIRONMENT CAPACITY BUILDING PROCESS COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS DECISION MAKING PROCESSES
spellingShingle	ACCOUNTABILITY BENEFICIARIES BENEFICIARY PARTICIPATION CADRES CAPACITY BUILDING CITIZENS COMMUNITIES COMMUNITY FACILITATORS CONSULTATION DECENTRALIZATION DECISION MAKING DECISION-MAKING DECREE DECREES DEMOCRACY DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS DISTRICTS ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES EXPENDITURES FACILITATORS INCOME INDEPENDENT MONITORING INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS LOCAL COMMUNITIES LOCAL GOVERNMENT LOCAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION MINISTRY OF FINANCE NATURAL RESOURCES NGO PARTICIPATORY MONITORING PARTICIPATORY PROCESS PERFORMANCE INDICATORS POSTERS POVERTY RATES POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION PROGRAMS PROJECT IMPACTS PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROJECT MANAGEMENT UNIT PROJECT OBJECTIVES PUBLIC INFORMATION REPRESENTATIVES RESOURCE ALLOCATION RISK MANAGEMENT SOCIAL ASSESSMENT SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIALLY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT STATE BUDGET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TRANSPARENCY POOR COMMUNITIES DECENTRALIZATION OBJECTIVES RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE MONITORING & EVALUATION APPROACH SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT POVERTY REDUCTION OBJECTIVES INDIGENOUS PEOPLES ENVIRONMENT CAPACITY BUILDING PROCESS COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS DECISION MAKING PROCESSES World Bank Empowering Poor Communities through Decentralized Decision Making : The Vietnam Community Based Rural Infrastructure Project
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description	Vietnam made remarkable progress in poverty reduction in the 1990s. Poverty rates decreased from 58% to 37% between 1993 and 1998. The reduction in poverty rates among indigenous people (who constitute 13% of the population and mostly live in remote areas) has been less remarkable. During the same period, the poverty incidence has gone down from 84% to 75%, leaving their poverty rates more than twice as high as that of the majority group, i.e. the Kinh group. In response, the Government has initiated several targeted poverty reduction programs to reduce poverty. One of these is "Program 135" to support mountainous and remote communes. Communes, which are clusters of villages, are the lowest level of government or local administration in Vietnam. Program 135 was established in 1998 to provide resources to more than 1,700 of the poorest communes for small infrastructure improvements and capacity building of local governments. The Community Based Rural Infrastructure Project (CBRIP) builds on the Government's initiative, but offers a somewhat different approach to infrastructure development - one that is more demand driven and promotes a greater role in decision making by beneficiaries.
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author	World Bank
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title	Empowering Poor Communities through Decentralized Decision Making : The Vietnam Community Based Rural Infrastructure Project
title_short	Empowering Poor Communities through Decentralized Decision Making : The Vietnam Community Based Rural Infrastructure Project
title_full	Empowering Poor Communities through Decentralized Decision Making : The Vietnam Community Based Rural Infrastructure Project
title_fullStr	Empowering Poor Communities through Decentralized Decision Making : The Vietnam Community Based Rural Infrastructure Project
title_full_unstemmed	Empowering Poor Communities through Decentralized Decision Making : The Vietnam Community Based Rural Infrastructure Project
title_sort	empowering poor communities through decentralized decision making : the vietnam community based rural infrastructure project
publisher	Washington, DC
publishDate	2012
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/07/2817623/empowering-poor-communities-through-decentralized-decision-making-vietnam-community-based-rural-infrastructure-project http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11374
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Empowering Poor Communities through Decentralized Decision Making : The Vietnam Community Based Rural Infrastructure Project

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