Foreword - Gowher Rizvi
I. THE SETTING AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
The Conceptual Framework - Ponna Wignaraja
II. SIX ILLUSTRATIVE CASE PROFILES
Decentralization without Mobilisation in Kerala - Madhu
Subramanian
Urban Local Government and Private Sector Partnership in Gujarat -
Amitabh Kundu and Debolina Kundu
Karachi: Filling the Space in Local Governance with Self-Reliant
Development - Arif Hasan and Salim Aleemuddin
Innovative Practice amidst Positive Potential for Paradigm Shift:
The Case of Sri Lanka - Susil Sirivardana
Women-led Pro-Poor Growth with Supportive Decentralization in Nepal
- Srikrishna Upadhyay and Govinda Koirala
Decentralisation and Pro-Poor Growth Strategies in Bangladesh:
Ready for Convergence - Shaikh Maqsood Ali
III. LESSONS FOR MACRO-MICRO POLICY
Lessons for Macro/Micro Policy - Akmal Hussain, Susil Sirivardana
and Ponna Wignaraja
Index
Ponna Wignaraja Chairman, South Asian Perspectives Network
Association (SAPNA), Colombo. He served as Vice Chairman of the
SAARC Independent South Asian Commission on Poverty Alleviation
(1992). During a career with the UN system of over four decades, Dr
Wignaraja has held numerous advisory roles in the World Bank, IMF,
the UN University, UNESCO, UNICEF, IFAD and UNRISD. He has
pioneered development banking and poverty focussed institutions at
national and local levels, both internationally and in South Asia.
A prolific author, Dr Wignaraja has published more than eight books
so far, including Women, Poverty and Resources; Participatory
Development: Learning from South Asia (co-author); New Social
Movements in the South (ed.); and Pro-poor Growth and Governance in
South Asia (ed.). He is currently also involved in issues relating
to conflict management transformation and negotiations for peace in
several South Asian countries. In 1993, he was awarded the highest
civilian honour for national service in Sri Lanka—Deshamanya.
Susil Sirivardana is the Chairman, Participatory Institute of
Development Alternatives and Associate Coordinator, South Asian
Perspectives Network Association, Colombo. He was a member of the
Sri Lankan Administrative Service for over two decades where his
contribution to two outstanding participatory development
programmes—the Janasaviya National Poverty Alleviation Programme
and the Million Houses Programme—is widely recognized. He also
served as an advisor to the 1992 SAARC Poverty Commission. Susil
Sirivardana has written extensively on housing and poverty
alleviation and his co-edited publications include Readings on
Pro-poor Planning through Social Mobilization in South Asia, Vol.I
and Pro-poor Growth and Governance in South Asia. Currently he is
also working on issues of conflict resolution and negotiation in
Sri Lanka.
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