In 1995 the World Bank and the Government of Brazil (GoB) jointly initiated the Rural Poverty Alleviation Program (RPAP) in an attempt to reduce the poverty levels in the northeast region of Brazil. The...
SEWA is the acronym for the Self-Employed Women's Association, based in Ahmedabad, India. In Hindi (an Indian language), sewa means 'service.' The association, working as a cooperative union, holds the...
Swayam Krishi Sangam (SKS) is a Grameen Bank replication project in one of the poorest parts of India, the drought-prone Medak district of Andhra Pradesh. SKS works for the empowerment of the poor by providing...
The Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP) was set up at the World Bank as a three-year initiative (1995-1998) to increase the quality and quantity of sustainable microfinance institutions (MFIs)...
Drishtee is a franchise-based telecenter initiative for delivering information and services to rural and semi-urban populations in India. Drishtee's objective is to develop and manage a series of partnerships...
The citizens' report card in Bangalore (Southern India) was a civil society initiative undertaken in 1993 to monitor government services in terms of efficiency and accountability. The exercise gathered...
South Africa's Women's Budget Initiative (WBI) is a pilot project spearheaded by the commonwealth secretariat in its endeavor to promote gender issues in the macroeconomic policies of its member countries...
'Kashi,' or Karma Sangh, began its operations in 1998 and undertook the Rural Legal Literacy Project (RLLP) in 2000-2001. The RLLP functions to increase legal awareness among rural women in targeted villages...
The Information Village Research Project (IVRP), implemented by the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), is based on the philosophy of Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, founder of MSSRF, to extend the benefits...
The Village Phone (VP) program is an initiative of the Grameen Bank, a well-known nongovernmental organization (NGO) providing economic assistance to poor villagers in rural Bangladesh. Grameen Bank provides...
In Hindi (an Indian language spoken in most parts of Northern and Central India), a choupal is a village gathering place. The e-choupal initiative, whereby a choupal is equipped with a computer and Internet...
Gyandoot, which means 'purveyor of knowledge' in Hindi, is a government-to-citizen, intranet-based service portal, implemented in the Dhar district of the state of Madhya Pradesh, India, in January 2000...
International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP) was established in 1946 to bring together nationally representative farmers' organizations (FOs) to ensure the security of the world's food supply...
The National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) is the national-level body involved in promoting, financing, and supporting milk-distribution organizations in India that are owned and controlled by the producers...
The World Links for Development Program (WorLD), managed by the World Bank, functions to enhance knowledge and professional development through information and communication technology (ICT), by linking...