Community empowerment and scaling-up in urban areas: the evolution of Push/Prospect in Zambia
CARE began PROSPECT (Program of Support for Poverty Elimination and Community Transformation) in 1998. PROSPECT aims to reduce poverty in peri-urban areas of Lusaka. It employs a community-based approach to carry out three types of activities: social empowerment (institution building at the local le...
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| author | Garrett, James L. |
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| description | CARE began PROSPECT (Program of Support for Poverty Elimination and Community Transformation) in 1998. PROSPECT aims to reduce poverty in peri-urban areas of Lusaka. It employs a community-based approach to carry out three types of activities: social empowerment (institution building at the local level), personal empowerment (microfinance), and infrastructure improvement (mostly water supply schemes). PROSPECT has attempted to carry out these activities largely through its support of area-based organizations (ABOs) that now form part of city government. The zone development committees (ZDCs) and residents' development committees (RDCs) are the basic components of the ABO structure. These are community-level representations of municipal government; they are the community's mechanisms for expressing its voice and driving development. PROSPECT is itself an extension of an earlier project, PUSH II (Peri-Urban Self-Help Project). PUSH II and PROSPECT are fundamentally about developing community-based and community-driven development (CDD) mechanisms and strengthening community capacities to identify and respond to community needs. The paper examines the scaling-up experience of PUSH II and PROSPECT, looking especially at the mechanisms of CDD, the ABOs. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1573522025-01-10T06:43:33Z Community empowerment and scaling-up in urban areas: the evolution of Push/Prospect in Zambia Garrett, James L. poverty alleviation community organizations urban development peri-urban agriculture empowerment community development food aid scaling up policies civil society water supply local government social conditions credit small enterprises infrastructure gender women CARE began PROSPECT (Program of Support for Poverty Elimination and Community Transformation) in 1998. PROSPECT aims to reduce poverty in peri-urban areas of Lusaka. It employs a community-based approach to carry out three types of activities: social empowerment (institution building at the local level), personal empowerment (microfinance), and infrastructure improvement (mostly water supply schemes). PROSPECT has attempted to carry out these activities largely through its support of area-based organizations (ABOs) that now form part of city government. The zone development committees (ZDCs) and residents' development committees (RDCs) are the basic components of the ABO structure. These are community-level representations of municipal government; they are the community's mechanisms for expressing its voice and driving development. PROSPECT is itself an extension of an earlier project, PUSH II (Peri-Urban Self-Help Project). PUSH II and PROSPECT are fundamentally about developing community-based and community-driven development (CDD) mechanisms and strengthening community capacities to identify and respond to community needs. The paper examines the scaling-up experience of PUSH II and PROSPECT, looking especially at the mechanisms of CDD, the ABOs. 2004 2024-10-24T12:49:07Z 2024-10-24T12:49:07Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/157352 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Garrett, James L. 2004. Community empowerment and scaling-up in urban areas: the evolution of Push/Prospect in Zambia. FCND Discussion Paper Brief. 177. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/157352 |
| spellingShingle | poverty alleviation community organizations urban development peri-urban agriculture empowerment community development food aid scaling up policies civil society water supply local government social conditions credit small enterprises infrastructure gender women Garrett, James L. Community empowerment and scaling-up in urban areas: the evolution of Push/Prospect in Zambia |
| title | Community empowerment and scaling-up in urban areas: the evolution of Push/Prospect in Zambia |
| title_full | Community empowerment and scaling-up in urban areas: the evolution of Push/Prospect in Zambia |
| title_fullStr | Community empowerment and scaling-up in urban areas: the evolution of Push/Prospect in Zambia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Community empowerment and scaling-up in urban areas: the evolution of Push/Prospect in Zambia |
| title_short | Community empowerment and scaling-up in urban areas: the evolution of Push/Prospect in Zambia |
| title_sort | community empowerment and scaling up in urban areas the evolution of push prospect in zambia |
| topic | poverty alleviation community organizations urban development peri-urban agriculture empowerment community development food aid scaling up policies civil society water supply local government social conditions credit small enterprises infrastructure gender women |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/157352 |
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