Membership Based Organizations of the Poor

By: Martha Chen, Renana Jhabvala, Ravi Kanbur

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Hardcover | 12 April 2007 | Edition Number 1

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This highly topical volume, with contributions from leading experts in the field, explores a variety of questions about membership based organizations of the poor. Analyzing their success and failure and the internal and external factors that play a part, it uses studies from both developed and developing countries.

Put together by a group of prestigious editors, the contributors address a range of questions, including:

What structures and activities characterize MBOPs?

What is meant by success and what factors account for success?

What are the internal (governance structure and leadership) and external (policy environment) factors that account for success?

Are these factors replicable across countries or even within countries?

What are the constraints to successful MBOPs expanding, or to new ones being formed?

What sort of policy environment enables the success of MBOPs and the formation of successful MBOPs?

What types of institutional reforms are needed to ensure the representation of the poor through their own MBOs?

This is an insightful work, that will be invaluable for students and researchers studying or working in the areas of international and development economics and development studies.

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List of illustrations	p. xii
List of contributors	p. xv
Acknowledgements	p. xix
Introduction and overview	p. 1
Membership-based organizations of the poor: concepts, experience and policy	p. 3
General principles: survival and success	p. 21
Organizations of the poor: conditions for success	p. 23
The influence of organizational structure, membership composition and resources on the survival of poor people's social movement organizations	p. 43
Trade unions	p. 63
Working class struggles, labour elites, and closed shops: the lessons from India's trade unions and experiences of organisation	p. 65
China as a world factory: new practices and struggles of migrant women workers	p. 83
Cooperatives	p. 103
Waste picker cooperatives in developing countries	p. 105
Co-operatives and the emancipation of the marginalized: case studies from two cities in India	p. 122
Literacy and internal control of community finance institutions in Cambodia	p. 138
Small self-help groups	p. 155
Membership-based indigenous insurance associations in Ethiopia and Tanzania	p. 157
SHG-based microfinance programmes: can they remove poverty?	p. 177
Community-level user groups: do they perform as expected?	p. 194
Campaigning organizations	p. 219
Shack/Slum Dwellers International: one experience of the contribution of membership organisations to pro-poor urban development	p. 221
Membership-based organisations of the poor: the South African tradition	p. 240
Informal governance and organizational success: the effects of noncompliance among Lima's street-vending organizations	p. 261
Local power structures and MBOPs	p. 279
Membership-based organizations as a reflection of power structures in rural "community": experiences and observations from Sindh Province, Pakistan	p. 281
Doing things differently? The everyday politics of membership-based organisations	p. 297
Voice lessons: local government organizations, social organizations, and the quality of local governance	p. 313
Community-driven development and the Northeast Brazil rural poverty reduction program	p. 352
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