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Reclaiming Our Democracy: Healing The Break Between People And Government
Most of us don't believe we play a part in the decisions made by our government, and this feeling of impotence has led to years of public apathy.
The 10th anniversary edition of Reclaiming Our Democracy once again brings to the fore a unique vision to meet this crisis: ordinary people taking extraordinary action, becoming citizen leaders in order to create a democracy "as if people mattered." The story is told through the inspiring action of RESULTS, an international grassroots citizens' lobby committed to healing the break between people and government, and creating the political will to end hunger and the worst aspects of poverty.
RESULTS has played a leading advocacy role in campaigns that have dramatically increased global immunization rates, saving the lives of millions of children, and produced a revolution in banking--microcredit--which is providing tiny, life-changing loans to millions of the world's poorest people. A domestic branch of RESULTS now focuses on issues like early childhood education and childcare in the United States. Such activism is needed more than ever today. According to the Washington Post, "There is not a rich lobby in Washington that wouldn't trade its limos for [RESULTS'] achievements...." Parade magazine has said of the group, "They defy the odds."
In the words of Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart, "We aren't passengers on spaceship earth. We're the crew." Reclaiming Our Democracy is for anyone who wants to learn how to make a difference. It's an operator's manual for citizens on spaceship Earth.
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More Pathways Out of Poverty
More Pathways Out of Poverty explores new practices in microfinance, some of them revolutionary, and draws on the success of the industry to illustrate the challenges involved in lifting clients out of poverty. Taken together, the contributions from leading microfinance leaders and institutions serve as a map for ensuring that microcredit contributes powerfully to cutting absolute poverty in half by 2015.
Edited by: Sam Daley-Harris and Anna Awimbo
Contributors Include: Nigel Biggar, Erin Connor, Alex Counts, Rekha Reddy, Larry Reed, Thierry van Bastelaer, Women's World Banking, Roshaneh Zafar, and Manfred Zeller.
Paperback: 216 pages
Publisher: Kumarian Press (November 2006)
Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
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Pathways Out Of Poverty
Pathways out of Poverty brings together important perspectives from the field that practitioners and policymakers will find useful, not only to build on successes but also to overcome the challenges facing us in the years ahead. If we are seriuous about the Millennium Development Goal of reducing poverty by half by 2015, we'll have no other option but to establish credit as a human right. This book will help guide you to do it.
Microfinance is a key intervention in helping poor families in developing countries move out of poverty. The Microcredit Summit Campaign has been working since 1997 to promote microfinance, with the aim of reaching 100 million of the world’s poorest families by 2005.
This book, published five years after the first Microcredit Summit, challenges conventional wisdoms and explores in depth the Campaign’s core themes: reaching the poorest, reaching and empowering women, building financially self-sufficient institutions, and ensuring a positive measurable impact on the lives of clients and their families.
The book will serve as a roadmap for development agencies working to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, including the goal of cutting absolute poverty in half by 2015.
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