Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Voices of the Poor in Colombia: Strengthening Livelihoods, Families, and Communities
    Voices of the Poor in Colombia: Strengthening Livelihoods, Families, and Communities
    Voices of the Poor in Colombia: Strengthening Livelihoods, Families, and Communities
    Ebook144 pages2 hours

    Voices of the Poor in Colombia: Strengthening Livelihoods, Families, and Communities

    By Jairo A. Arboleda, Patti L. Petesch and James Blackburn

    ()

    About this ebook

    This latest Voices of the Poor study advances the participatory research tradition of the previous World Bank Voices works with new modules focusing on poor peoples' action recommendations. In the summer of 2002, 942 poor women and men from ten poor communities of Colombia discussed urgent problems facing their families and communities. They shared their experiences, frustrations and hopes for improving their deteriorating livelihood prospects, the pervasive violence afflicting their homes and communities, and the very poor educational and training opportunities availably locally. Voices of the Poor in Colombia also includes proposals, developed by the communities, that they believe can bring real improvements to their lives. Two broad patterns emerge from the more than 250 action recommendations developed. First, poor people view problems of livelihood, insecurity and education as tightly connected, and progress will have to be made simultaneously on all three fronts if any is to be made at all. Second, households are seen to be the critical arenas in which development problems begin and then spread, and responsive and effective local institutions are terribly important if poor families and communities are to become more harmonious, secure and prosperous. Despite the wider political violence, a significant finding from this work is a very widespread view that more cohesive and stronger families and local organizations are the bedrock to greater peace and development.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWorld Bank Publications
    Release dateJul 1, 2004
    ISBN9780821358023
    Voices of the Poor in Colombia: Strengthening Livelihoods, Families, and Communities

    Related to Voices of the Poor in Colombia

    Related ebooks

    Poverty & Homelessness For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Women For Women

      Jun 22, 2018

      BREAKING THE MOULD TWO SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS, A LAWYER AND TWO HOSPITALITY EXPERTS ON FINDING YOUR CALLING By SHELLY ANAND AMI SHROFF, 45 ON FINDING THE COURAGE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE Being awestruck is not enough Allow the greatness of others to spur y

      2 min read

    • Article

      Turning Ideas Into Success

      Apr 20, 2018

      On how art helps women artistes Rasika Kajaria, 39 Owner, Exhibit 320, Art gallery, Delhi 1. Connects them: with their inner self Without art, society won't be civilised. Art as a medium is important as it teaches us empathy and is a mirror to our so

      3 min read

    • Article

      Mncs Lead The Way In India

      Apr 14, 2023

      1 Only 9.5 per cent of the surveyed organisations have made extremely significant efforts to be LGBTQ+ inclusive, of which a majority were MNCs 2 A vast majority (69.2 per cent) of the organisations surveyed made very limited efforts to be truly incl

      1 min read

    • Article

      Q&A

      May 1, 2021

      How would you describe the billion-dollar ‘diversity business’? In writing the book (Diversity Inc.), I wanted to explore the tension between the constant rhetoric about diversity and the billions of dollars that are spent annually on consultants and

      6 min read

    • Article

      Soft Leadership For Millennials

      Dec 3, 2019

      Soft Leadership For Millennials
      9 min read

    • Article

      The Boys on the Tech Bus

      May 9, 2018

      The Boys on the Tech Bus
      9 min read

    • Article

      The Power of “Y”

      Jan 15, 2022

      The Power of “Y”
      4 min read

    • Article

      Fourth World problems

      Jan 28, 2019

      Fourth World problems
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Connor Group

      Dec 5, 2023

      The Connor Group
      2 min read

    • Article

      Necessary Work: Reorganizing Space For Equality

      Jun 27, 2021

      Rory Hyde: What are your thoughts on what is happening now with the pandemic? How do you think it could change the way we live in suburbia? Dolores Hayden: What the pandemic has done, in its strange and terrible way, is to focus our attention on nec

      5 min read

    • Article

      Seeing A Very Different 2020

      Dec 23, 2020

      It goes without saying that 2020 was not the brightest year. But despite all the hardship, progress still flowed like a stream beneath the surface.

      2 min read

    • Article

      Harry's

      Dec 5, 2023

      Harry's
      4 min read

    • Article

      Brave New World

      Nov 4, 2023

      Brave New World
      4 min read

    • Article

      Rethinking Future Higher Education

      Feb 4, 2019

      Rethinking Future Higher Education
      21 min read

    Reviews for Voices of the Poor in Colombia

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words