The Power of Failure
By Sarika Bansal A very interesting article which talks about “Failfairs” or public events where people share and learn from development failures. Read full article
How can participatory development be improved?
By Ghazala Mansuri and Vijayendra Rao of the World Bank Community development projects, and interventions that attempt to improve the “demand side” of governance, are premised on the belief that public participation will necessarily solve failures in governments and markets. The problem in the design of these interventions, however, is that civic capacity is either assumed to be high rather […]