This report presents a brief discussion of indigenous peoples’ development as evidenced in a select number of case studies about World Bank financed projects that had a positive impact on indigenous peoples’...
In 2000 and 2001 the Gambia had engaged in the process of preparing its PRSP. This process led the government of Gambia to launch critical analytical and sector work to underpin its renewed strategies...
The Indigenous Peoples Leadership Capacity Building Program for the Andean Countries (Andean Program) is the result of an initiative of the Fund for the Development of Indigenous Peoples of Latin America...
The Indigenous Peoples Leadership Capacity Building Program for the Andean Countries (Andean Program) is the result of an initiative of the Fund for the Development of Indigenous Peoples of Latin America...
On February 27, 2004, the Social Development Unit of the World Bank's Latin American and Caribbean Region (LCSEO) held a learning workshop entitled, "Indigenous Peoples and Development." The objectives...
This study attempts to distill lessons from the preparation, and initial implementation of the Ecuador Indigenous and Afro-Ecuadoran Peoples Development Project, though it also draws heavily from a working...
Understanding the situation of urban indigenous people in Mexico, Peru, and Ecuador entails the definition of the social exclusion concept, central to the three case studies. The concept of social exclusion...
The challenge of inclusion in the Latin America and the Caribbean Region--by David de Ferranti. Participation in development planning: strengthening Afro-Latin and indigenous organizations--Jeanette Sutherland...
The paper looks at cross-country experiences in capacity building for change, and adaptation of indigenous peoples in Latin America, identifying their increased recognition that, to meet the challenges...
This paper seeks to strengthen development projects for indigenous peoples and ethnic groups by examining the critical concepts of "ethnodevelopment" or "development with identity," and how to incorporate...
The main objective of the participatory training initiative is to strengthen indigenous peoples organizations and to increase their options for ethno-development, interpreted as socioeconomic change that...
This paper explores the conditions which have enabled indigenous peoples to respond to changing circumstances in their communities, the development strategies that are emerging at the grassroots level...
This note reviews the economic, social, and political welfare of indigenous peoples in Latin America, and examines the environmental aspects of the region's economic development, as priorities for the...