The Neighborhood Upgrading and Shelter Sector Project in Indonesia
The Neighborhood Upgrading and Shelter Sector Project in Indonesia

Author: Asian Development Bank

Publisher: Asian Development Bank

Published: 2012-06-01

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 9290927216

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This report identifies lessons learned from implementation of a community-driven urban development initiative in Indonesia, the Neighborhood Upgrading and Shelter Sector Project (NUSSP), and the extent to which it contributed to improvements in service delivery and governance in six beneficiary communities. The NUSSP subprojects examined were found to be well implemented, with high levels of community participation in project planning, implementation, and monitoring. However, participation by women and poor villagers was relatively low. The subprojects did not significantly affect the quality of institutional arrangements for local service delivery lying outside the scope of the project.

Legal Empowerment for Women and Disadvantaged Groups
Legal Empowerment for Women and Disadvantaged Groups

Author: Asian Development Bank

Publisher: Asian Development Bank

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 929254697X

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Legal empowerment is a powerful tool for reducing poverty. It gives people the knowledge, skills, and confidence to participate in development projects. It promotes inclusive growth, which reduces poverty by building people's capacity to improve their lives. Inclusive growth is a goal of Strategy 2020, which guides the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in its mission to promote gender equality, empower women, and achieve the Millennium Development Goals. The publication presents the findings of a project funded by ADB, carried out by The Asia Foundation, and conducted in Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Pakistan. The project aimed to identify and test legal empowerment strategies that increase access to basic social services, productive resources, and opportunities by women and other disadvantaged groups and to incorporate legal empowerment initiatives into mainstream development projects.

The Inclusive City
The Inclusive City

Author: Aprodicio A. Laquian

Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press

Published: 2007-04-16

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13:

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Getting basic services—housing, transportation, trash disposal, water, and sanitation—poses almost unimaginable challenges to the urban poor of Asia. The Inclusive City provides case studies of how governmental programs attempt to meet these challenges by directly involving the poor themselves in improving their access to urban services through collaborative efforts. Case studies are drawn from the largest cities in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, China (including Hong Kong), Indonesia, and the Philippines. Contributors to the book are scholar-practitioners from Asia as well as Australia, Canada, and the United States.