Promoting empowerment? The World Bank's Village Investment Project in Kyrgyzstan
In: Central Asian survey, Band 34, Heft 4, S. 499-515
ISSN: 1465-3354
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In: Central Asian survey, Band 34, Heft 4, S. 499-515
ISSN: 1465-3354
In: Asian Development Bank Economics Working Paper Series No. 396
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In: Central Asian survey, Band 34, Heft 4, S. 499-515
ISSN: 0263-4937
World Affairs Online
In: Development in practice, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 317-329
ISSN: 1364-9213
In: The Slavonic and East European review: SEER, Band 86, Heft 4, S. 778-780
ISSN: 2222-4327
In: Europe Asia studies, Band 60, Heft 8, S. 1299-1319
ISSN: 0966-8136
World Affairs Online
In: Post-soviet affairs, Band 24, Heft 4, S. 383-404
ISSN: 1060-586X
World Affairs Online
In: Communist and post-communist studies: an international interdisciplinary journal, Band 41, Heft 3, S. 375-396
ISSN: 0967-067X
World Affairs Online
In: Communist and post-communist studies, Band 41, Heft 3, S. 375-396
ISSN: 0967-067X
This paper analyzes the effectiveness, responsiveness and accountability of local mayors in governing local development in Armenia. The research conducted in eight rural communities shows that in order to be effective, elected local mayors are compelled to resort to informal strategies to attract development resources to their communities. As formal opportunities for supporting rural livelihoods are limited, informal governance helps enhance people's well-being and social cohesion. It also reinforces a system of "clientelistic accountability", which ensures a significant level of responsiveness of local mayors to local needs, but also contributes to the disempowerment of citizens and leaves them vulnerable to corruption and mismanagement.
In: Europe Asia studies, Band 60, Heft 8, S. 1299-1319
ISSN: 1465-3427
In: Post-Soviet affairs, Band 24, Heft 4, S. 383-404
ISSN: 1938-2855
In: Central Asian survey, Band 25, Heft 4, S. 403-418
ISSN: 0263-4937
World Affairs Online
In: Central Asian survey, Band 25, Heft 4, S. 403-418
ISSN: 1465-3354
In: Central Asian survey, Band 24, Heft 3, S. 261-279
ISSN: 1465-3354
In: Social policy and administration, Band 39, Heft 4, S. 448-462
ISSN: 1467-9515
Abstract The main objective of this article is to discuss the effectiveness of bottom‐up, community‐driven approaches in promoting community participation and building local capacity within the post‐Soviet social, institutional and political context of Armenia. In exploring this issue, the article examines the nature of local participation and social relations in rural communities in Armenia and the impact of the World Bank‐supported Armenia Social Investment Fund (ASIF) project on the existing forms of local social organization. One of the objectives of the ASIF project was to promote the participation of local communities in their own economic and social development. The research finds that the project did not change the existing patterns of local social organization and had no significant impact on the nature of participation in the beneficiary communities. Bottom‐up, capacity‐building interventions that mainly focus on changing patterns of interpersonal social relations may not be effective in fostering sustainable civic institutions without changes in the nature of a country's governance.