The Next Ascent

The Next Ascent
Author: Ridley Nelson
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780821349793

The Aga Khan Rural Support Program (AKRSP) in northern Pakistan has become a model for rural development programmes throughout the country and worldwide. This is the fourth independent evaluation of the AKRSP by the World Bank, which seeks to assess how the programme can best meet present and future challenges and development needs. The assessment covers the period since the programme's initiation in 1982, as well as the period since the last evaluation in 1995. It concentrates on four programme components: community organisations, infrastructure development, natural resource management, and microfinance.

The Aga Khan Rural Support Programme

The Aga Khan Rural Support Programme
Author: Shoaib Sultan Khan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780195476682

The Aga Khan Rural Support Programme relates the story of participatory development experience in the rural areas of South Asia. The lessons learned in rural development, based on the author's work over the last fifty years in various areas of South Asia, are narrated in the context of "working within the system and living within the means." The basic principles of rural development are described through the process of engaging rural men and women to shape their lives. Operational details of interaction between communities and professionals are combined with inspirational content on the efforts of these people to ignite hope and offer guidelines for changing the lives of the teeming millions by mobilizing their own potential. The book also provides insights into the Aga Khan Rural Suport Programme, an ambitious and successful sustainable development programme that was initiated by Shoaib Sultan at the behest of the Aga Khan, a patron with long term commitment to sustainable development. The Aga Khan Rural Support Programme is a valuable addition to the knowledge on people-centered development and evidence-based advocacy for policy change conducive to sustainable development. It will interest both the professional and general reader interested in poverty alleviation and rural development.

NGOs and Organizational Change

NGOs and Organizational Change
Author: Alnoor Ebrahim
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2005-05-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521671576

Ebrahim analyses the organizational evolution of NGOs combining case studies with extensive review of literature.

Creating Sustainable Community Programs

Creating Sustainable Community Programs
Author: Mark R. Daniels
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2001-02-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0313073961

Public opinion polls consistently reveal the lack of confidence, disillusionment, and mistrust that citizens feel toward government. Daniels and his contributors believe that the relationship between citizens and their governments can be changed by facilitating greater citizen collaboration with government, particularly through local sustainable programs. As the case studies show, often sustainable community programs are created through grassroots movements that are initiated and managed by citizens themselves, bringing them in contact with their local elected and appointed officials. Unlike traditional programs that are administered by local officials on behalf of their citizens, once sustainable community programs are created, citizens administer their own programs in collaboration with local officials. The case studies look at a variety of sustainable programs, primarily in the United States, that help to deal with issues such as recycling, transportation, microcredit, site redevelopment, pollution, health care, and hunger. Creating Sustainable Community Programs is the first book on sustainable programs that is intended for an audience of public administration scholars, researchers, and students as well as practitioners who are searching for ways to change the relationship between citizens and their governments.

The Islamic Welfare State

The Islamic Welfare State
Author: Christopher Candland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2024-04-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1009268430

The Islamic Welfare State explains the relationship between lived Islam, everyday human security, and government legitimacy in an Islamic society. Readers see the frequent abuse of Islamic injunctions by government and political parties. But readers also see the essential humanitarian spirit that makes Islam a compelling, community-strengthening faith. Readers appreciate how the humanitarian moral sentiments of Islam both provides everyday human security to millions of people and challenges legitimacy of government by allowing government to focus on protecting Islam rather than providing for the citizenry. The focus is on ground realities, on social welfare workers, and their beneficiaries, mostly patients and students from low-income families, their activities and experiences. The attention to affective politics permits the reader to understand politics and political change in Pakistan and elsewhere in the Muslim world.

Isma'ili Modern

Isma'ili Modern
Author: Jonah Steinberg
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2011
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0807834076

The Isma'ili Muslims, a major sect of Shi'i Islam, form a community that is intriguing in its deterritorialized social organization. Informed by the richness of Isma'ili history, theories of transnationalism and globalization, and firsthand ethnographic f

Educational Policies in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan

Educational Policies in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan
Author: Dilshad Ashraf
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2016-12-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1498505341

In the mountains of the Northern Pakistan, Tajikistan and Afghanistan School and schooling are both symbolic of wider ranging cultural and political battles over morals, modernity, development, gender and the rule of law. Educational Policies in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan: Contested Terrain in the Twenty-First Century is about both the normative battles over the purpose of education, as well as about the structural impediments to providing instruction in those remote and challenging locations where it is attempted. The analytical frames in this collection come primarily from the social sciences and comparative education. Contributors examine education, policy, processes and structures in the broader socio-cultural, religious and economic context of three countries sharing somewhat similar colonial and post- colonial legacy and current uprising of extreme religious positions and a drive to social-cohesion.