Poverty and Participation in Civil Society

Proceedings of A UNESCO/CROP Round Table organized at the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, Denmark, March 1995

During the World Summit for Social Development, held in Copenhagen in March 1995, UNESCO organized a Round Table, in collaboration with CROP -- the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty, set up by the International Social Science Council (ISSC) -- to discuss the problem of promoting participation of the poor in civil society. This book carries the proceedings of that Round Table edited by Dr. Yogesh Atal and Professor Else Øyen who jointly convened that Round Table. The holding of the Round Table, and this publication of its proceedings, constitute one of the several contributions made by UNESCO to the World Summit process.

In view of the fact that the decade of 1997-2006 has been declared by the United Nations as the International Decade for the Eradication of Poverty the publication of the proceedings of this Round Table is timely and important. What was deliberated at the Round Table should help develop an agenda not only for research and reflection, but also for affirmative action.

Contents

Francine Fournier
Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences
UNESCO, Paris, France

Involving the Poor: The Many Question Marks
Yogesh Atal
Director, Coordinating Unit for the World Summit for Social Development,
UNESCO, Paris, France

Towards a Culture of Participation and Citizenship: Challenges for a More Equitable World
Elizabeth Jelin
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Poor People' s Realities: The Professional Challenge
Robert Chambers
University of Sussex, United Kingdom

Poverty Eradication and Participation in Africa: Structural Issues Barring Participation of the Poor
Sadig Rasheed
UN Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Poverty Eradication through Participatory Development: Lessons from South Asia
Ponna Wignaraja
UNU Project on South Asian Perspectives, Colombo, Sri Lanka

The Art of Building Bridges between the World of the Poor and the World of the Non-Poor
Else Øyen
Chair of CROP and Professor of Social Policy
University of Bergen, Norway

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