Community empowerment and scaling-up in urban areas: the evolution of Push/Prospect in Zambia

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dc.creatorGarrett, James L.
dc.date2004
dc.date2024-10-24T12:46:21Z
dc.date2024-10-24T12:46:21Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:14:20Z
dc.descriptionCARE began PROSPECT (Program of Support for Poverty Elimination and Community Transformation) in 1998. PROSPECT aims to reduce poverty in peri-urban areas of Lusaka. It employs a community-based approach to carry out three types of activities: social empowerment (institution building at the local level), personal empowerment (microfinance), and infrastructure improvement (mostly water supply schemes). PROSPECT has attempted to carry out these activities largely through its support of area-based organizations (ABOs) that now form part of city government. The zone development committees (ZDCs) and residents' development committees (RDCs) are the basic components of the ABO structure. These are community-level representations of municipal government; they are the community's mechanisms for expressing its voice and driving development. PROSPECT is itself an extension of an earlier project, PUSH II (Peri-Urban Self-Help Project). PUSH II and PROSPECT are fundamentally about developing community-based and community-driven development (CDD) mechanisms and strengthening community capacities to identify and respond to community needs. The paper examines the scaling-up experience of PUSH II and PROSPECT, looking especially at the mechanisms of CDD, the ABOs." -- Authors' Abstract
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/156953
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/98560
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceGarrett, James L. 2004. Community empowerment and scaling-up in urban areas: the evolution of Push/Prospect in Zambia. FCND Discussion Paper 177. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/156953
dc.subjectpoverty alleviation
dc.subjectcommunity organizations
dc.subjecturban development
dc.subjectperi-urban agriculture
dc.subjectempowerment
dc.subjectcommunity development
dc.subjectfood aid
dc.subjectscaling up
dc.subjectpolicies
dc.subjectcivil society
dc.subjectwater supply
dc.subjectlocal government
dc.subjectsocial conditions
dc.subjectcredit
dc.subjectsmall enterprises
dc.subjectinfrastructure
dc.subjectgender
dc.subjectwomen
dc.titleCommunity empowerment and scaling-up in urban areas: the evolution of Push/Prospect in Zambia
dc.typeWorking Paper

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