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dc.titleDoes Community Participation Produce Dividends in Social Investment Fund Projects?
dc.contributor.authorHeinrich, Carolyn
dc.contributor.authorLópez, Yeri
dc.contributor.orgunitOffice of Evaluation and Oversight
dc.coverageHonduras
dc.date.available2011-07-21T00:00:00
dc.date.issue2007-03-01T00:00:00
dc.description.abstractSocial investment funds, a widely used tool of development efforts, aim to support and strengthen local capacity for effective implementation of social and economic infrastructure projects through participatory, community-driven approaches. This working paper investigates whether these participatory methods improve the outcomes of education projects and community members' perceptions of their effectiveness using data from an impact evaluation of the third phase of the Fondo Hondureño de Inversión Social (FHIS). The study also makes an important contribution with more carefully defined and explicit measures of individuals' participation in community projects. In regards to the outcome, the authors do not find statistically significant effects of the education projects on academic outcomes of school-aged youth, but they do observe positive, statistically significant relationships between the use of participatory methodologies and household opinions of the projects, as well as between households' level of participation and their opinions of the projects.
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0011175
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Does-Community-Participation-Produce-Dividends-in-Social-Investment-Fund-Projects.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.mediumAdobe PDF
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectInvestment
dc.subjectPopulation Statistic
dc.subjectCommunity Development
dc.subjectPoverty
dc.subjectSocial Policy and Protection
dc.subject.keywordsWP-01/07
dc.typeWorking Papers
idb.identifier.pubnumberWorking Papers
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