Participation, planning and natural resources in Bolivia : from fiction to practice?
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Abstract:
This paper focusses on participation in the main planning documents produced in Bolivia in the first decade of the 2000s: the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) and the National Development Plan (PND). It is analyzed how these planning instruments have been able to capture popular participation through diverse mechanisms and how these practices fit in the current mainstream participation discourse. Special attention is paid to natural resources because of the predominant role they have in the Bolivian economy and because of their substantial contribution to the state budget. The Bolivian experience shows an apparent paradox: while the process leading to the PRSP followed participatory guidelines and the PND did not, the resulting PRSP failed to include the most pressing demands of social movements, while the PND succeeded in including them.
Authors:
Pellegrini, L.
Series Title:
NEBE Working Paper
Country:
Bolivia
Category:
Practice
Serial number:
1
Keywords:
civil society
,
natural resources
,
participation
Language:
eng
Organization:
Hivos – Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation
Organization:
ISS - Institute of Social Studies
,
Universidad San Francisco de Quito
,
LIDEMA - Liga de Defensa del Medio Ambiente
PAGE:
16
Place:
The Hague [etc.]
Publisher:
Hivos [etc.]
Year:
2011
Region:
South America
Right:
© 2011 Hivos [etc.]. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.
Subject:
Social and Political Change
Title:
Participation, planning and natural resources in Bolivia : from fiction to practice?