How successful have other people’s community-based poverty
reduction projects been? How did they measure their success?
These resources explain how other people have evaluated themselves,
and how you can use these tools yourself. Just click to read!
Multisectoral Collaboration for Poverty Reduction
(Waterloo, Canada)
This detailed evaluation
report on Opportunities 2000's first phase from 1996-2000 covers everything
from how the project began, to key ingredients for success,
outcomes and lessons learned. The report focuses on OP2000's
distinctive elements - its focus on poverty reduction and
its emphasis on multisectoral collaboration.
The Self-Sufficiency
Project (Canada)
Social Research and Demonstration Corporation is
funded by Human
Resources and Development Canada, and they’ve done
a huge study of how they believe welfare recipients can be
brought out of poverty. Here
they describe what the Self
Sufficiency Project is, and how it works. Their strength
is studying outcomes—their “publications”
section contains many of their evaluation studies.
Jobs & the Urban Poor - Privately Initiated
Sectoral Strategies The Aspen Institute is without question
one of the best organizations in North America for trying
to understand effective strategies to reduce poverty. In this
study,
Aspen examined a range of poverty reduction schemes across
the USA and concluded that “sector strategies”
— poverty reduction schemes working within a defined
industry — were quite effective.
Neighbourhood Jobs Initiative
(USA)
Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation (MDRC) researches and evaluates poverty reduction schemes all
over America. The Neighbourhood
Jobs Initiative was designed to increase employment in
inner-city neighbourhoods by building community with the help
of local community organizations. This report
is the final evaluation of this project.
Closing
the Gap:
How Sectoral Workforce Development Programs Benefit
the Working Poor
This report,
also from the Aspen Institute, examines the employment, income
and training impacts on working poor residents that have participated
in six sectoral job-training programs in the United States.
They found that Sectoral Strategies, which target individual
industries, improved job prospects for unemployed or underemployed
people.
Have we missed something? Know a great resource
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