The Poorest Areas Civil Society (PACS) Programme, one of India’s largest non-government developmental efforts, is drawing to a close in 2008, after successfully enabling over two million poorest of the poor people in around 20,000 villages to exercise their rights and demand their entitlements.
To mark the conclusion of this initiative, PACS Programme Management Consultants Development Alternatives and PricewaterhouseCoopers are convening a conference on ‘What it takes to eradicate poverty’ at the India Habitat Centre at Lodi Road, New Delhi on December 4-6, 2007.
The conference will bring together some 1,000 participants, including some of the world’s leading development practitioners, many of them from the grassroots. Participants will analyse the instruments of policy, institutional support, finance, technology, direct action and other instruments that have, or have not, helped improve the lives of the poor,
especially the marginalised and the excluded.
The organisers also hope that participants will explore interventions that have the highest potential for breaking the rather intractable cycle of poverty.
For details of the conference visit at http://www.empowerpoor.org/
Source: http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/154858/1/
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