Working together for a change : Government, business and civic partnerships for poverty reduction in LAC

Abstract

This report summarizes the lessons from the first year of an ongoing learning program, co-sponsored by the Economic Development Institute (EDI) of the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme and the Inter-American Foundation, entitled Partnerships for Poverty Reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean. The program aims to promote and facilitate collaboration among governments, business and civic organizations of the region in initiatives with poverty reducing impact or potential. The notion of collaborative, rather than contractural or narrowly instrumental relationships among these actors, is expressed by the short-hand term partnerships. The study focuses attention on a generic approach regarding the form of poverty reduction initiatives-partnerships-rather than on specific types of solutions to poverty, such as social funds, targeted interventions and so forth. It is also beyond the scope of the program to attempt any assessment of the actual poverty reducing impact of the imponderables, for example, as improvement of the quality of education in poor communities. Rather, the approach is taken that such activities as the improvement of the poor's access to basic and social services, and the quality, are a positive step and to concentrate attention on why it is that partnerships may be both the most efficient and effective means of producing those outcomes.

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