Social Assessment in Tajikistan Brings Rural Realities to Urban Decisionmakers

A social assessment was done during the preparation of Tajikistan's Pilot Poverty Alleviation Project to answer several key questions: What are the poor people's priority needs and wants? Why are they poor? What are their own strategies for improving their lives? And how can they be helped to improve their circumstances? By answering these questions, the social assessment helped the project team incorporate poor people's priorities for poverty alleviation, identify nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) whose scaled-up programs would form part of the project, understand and address risks to project success, build local capacity to carry out participatory research, and influence the national dialogue on poverty and the potential role of small-scale, participatory microprojects for poverty alleviation. The Pilot Poverty Alleviation Project is designed to improve poor people's lives by scaling-up international NGO programs and financing small, participatory microprojects through the recently established Tajikistan Social Investment Fund.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	World Bank
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC 1998-05
Subjects:	BASIC NEEDS, BIRTH RATE, CHILD LABOR, CIVIL CONFLICT, COMMODITIES, COMMUNITY MEMBERS, DEATH RATE, DEVELOPMENT NETWORK, DEVELOPMENT WORK, DISCRIMINATION, EMIGRATION, EMPLOYMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION, FEMALE-HEADED HOUSEHOLDS, FIELD TEAMS, HOUSEHOLD INCOME, HOUSEHOLD LABOR, HUMAN RIGHTS, INCIDENCE OF POVERTY, ISOLATION, LAND RESOURCES, LIVELIHOOD, LOCAL OFFICIALS, NGO, PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH, POOR PEOPLE, POVERTY ALLEVIATION, POVERTY INDICATORS, PRODUCTIVE ASSETS, PROGRAMS, PROJECT IMPACT EVALUATION, REFUGEES, REGIONAL DISPARITIES, RELATIVE POVERTY, RURAL APPRAISAL, RURAL AREAS, RURAL HOUSEHOLDS, SOCIAL ASSESSMENT, SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, SOCIAL GROUPINGS, SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE, SOCIAL PROTECTION, STATISTICAL DATA, SURVIVAL STRATEGIES, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, TASK TEAM LEADER, UNEMPLOYMENT, URBAN ONES, WATER SUPPLY, WEALTH RANKING, WIDOWS POVERTY REDUCTION, SOCIAL ASSESSMENTS, NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS, SOCIAL INVESTMENT FUNDS, RURAL POVERTY, PARTICIPATORY RURAL APPRAISAL, ACCESS TO LAND, REGIONAL DISPARITY, POVERTY MEASUREMENT, CAPACITY BUILDING, RISK, MICRO-PROJECTS,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/1998/05/693566/social-assessment-tajikistan-brings-rural-realities-urban-decisionmakers https://hdl.handle.net/10986/11548
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