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Title:Community-driven development: a viable approach to poverty reduction in rural Burkina Faso
Author:Bado, NiamboueISNI
Year:2012
Periodical:African Development Review (ISSN 1467-8268)
Volume:24
Issue:1
Pages:34-40
Language:English
Geographic term:Burkina Faso
Subjects:poverty reduction
community participation
rural areas
External link:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8268.2011.00303.x/pdf
Abstract:Various efforts by national governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and international donors have shown limited success in reducing poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. As a result, poverty is still persistent in most households, especially in rural areas. The persistence of poverty on the continent can be in part attributed to the top-down approach to development adopted by various poverty alleviation programmes. This paper focuses on poverty reduction programmes in Burkina Faso. It finds that local communities in Burkina Faso are not provided with the resources and authority to take ownership of their development. The five principles of community-driven development (empower communities, empower local government, realign the centre, improve accountability, and build capacity) are not fully addressed in the country's poverty reduction programmes, despite the fact that a community-driven approach to development and poverty reduction has the potential of lifting rural populations out of the poverty trap. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract, edited]
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