Reading materials

Author(s): Willem Overbeke
Publication date: Wednesday 08 December 2004

Action Aid USA/Uganda, “Rethinking Participation. Questions for Civil Society about the limits of participation in PRSP´s, April 2004.

Allegreti, G. & Herzberg, C., Participatory Budgets in Europe. Between efficiency and growing local democracy, TNI, Briefing Series, no. 2004/5

Bastian, S. & Luckham, R., (Eds.) Can Democracy Be Designed? The Politics of Institutional Choice in Conflict-Torn Societies, Vol I in Series: Democratic Transition in Conflict-Torn Societies, ZED Books, 2003.

Bazaara, N., When does civil society make sense for poverty reduction and democracy in Uganda?, CBR Bulletin 3/1, Jan.2003.

Bräutigam, D.A., The People´s Budget? Politics, Power, Popular Participation and Pro-poor economic policy, American Un., 2004.

Budlender, D., a.o., “Gender Budgets make cents”, Commonwealth Secretariat, 2002.

Chavez, D., Democratizar la Democracia. Hacia una propuesta de presupuesto participativo nacional (Uruguay), TNI, Agosto 2004.

EURODAD/EPEP, Mapping of Civil Sociaty activity on economic policy in Uganda, June 2003.

FOWODE, Advocating for gender sensitive budgets in Uganda, UNIFEM/FOWODE, Uganda, undated.

Gould, J. and Ojanen, J., “Merging in the Circle. The Politics of Tanzania´s PRS”, IDS, Un. of Helsinki, Policy Paper 2, 2003.

KALI (Karambi Action for Life Improvement), Empowering the grassroots people to apply the Rights Based Approaches in establishing Community Public Expenditure Monitoring Systems, Bukonzo County, Ugnada, 2004.

Government of the Netherlands, Pro-poor growth in Bilateral partner countries in Sub-Sahara Africa: an analysis of PRSP strategies, AIV, No. 29, January 2003.

Government of Uganda, Poverty Monitoring and Evaluation Strategy, MFPED, Kampala, June 2002.

HIVOS, Between Resilience and Resistance: promoting progressive culture in Africa, HIVOS Africa consultation, June 2004.

ISS, “Reducir la Pobreza: ¿Se puede? Experiencia con las Estrategias de Reducción de Pobreza en América Latina, Resumen Ejecutivo, Diciembre 2003.

Justice Resources, Beyond Workshops. Challenges and Strategies in Human Rights Interventions in Uganda, May 2003

Kintu, R., & Overbeke, W., Context Analysis Rwenzori Region, West Uganda, HIVOS, April 2004.

Nyamugasira, W., & Rowden, R., Poverty reduction strategies and coherency of loan conditions, April 2002.

PANOS Institute, Reducing poverty. Is the Worldbank strategy working?, 2002.

Sanchez, D. And Cash, K., “Reducing Poverty or repeatign mistakes?”, Church of Sweden Aid, etc. Dec. 2003.

Schneider, A., & Goldfrank, B., Budgets and ballots in Brazil: participatory budgeting from the city to the state, IDS WP149, 2002

TGNP (Tanzania Gender Networkign Programme), Budgeting with a Gender Focus, 1999.

Transform! Europe, Newsletter, Number 1, March 2004, Participatory Budgets and City Politics in WSF.

UDN (Uganda Debt Network), Budget Tracking and Poverty Expenditure Monitoring: Method, Tools, Approaches, Indicators and Monitoring Structure, Kampala, Febr. 2002.

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