The New Human Agenda: An Empowering Approach to Poverty Alleviation

The ways of the West are not necessarily the best for releasing human potential and capacity for poverty alleviation. This paper puts forward the New Human Agenda, built around the concepts of increased humanness, partnerships and bioregionalism, as an alternative approach to traditional interventio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Raphaely, Talia, Marinova, Dora
Other Authors: Unknown
Format: Conference Paper
Published: Murdoch University 2006
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/38863
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Summary:The ways of the West are not necessarily the best for releasing human potential and capacity for poverty alleviation. This paper puts forward the New Human Agenda, built around the concepts of increased humanness, partnerships and bioregionalism, as an alternative approach to traditional interventions. Using the example of The Hunger Project, it argues that the applied process and strategies (which are locally conceived, dynamically transformative, flexible, connected, iterative, engaging, participatory and empowering) have the potential to deliver sustainable and long term opportunities for poverty alleviation.