Community development, ‘tradition’ and the civil society strengthening agenda in Central Asia
Community development, ‘tradition’ and the civil society strengthening agenda in Central Asia
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中亚的社区发展、“传统”和民间社会强化议程
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2005
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L. Earle
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L. Earle
本文考察了西方捐助者最近在中亚前苏联加盟共和国转向社区发展干预的情况。它特别关注捐助者如何利用中亚社会的传统方面，例如ashar和赋予aksakal的权威来帮助促进其规划。作者认为，虽然美国在20世纪90年代早期到中期资助的项目关注的是“加强公民社会”和促进民主，但这一议程与通过社区发展项目推出的新的减贫重点之间几乎没有重叠。尚未探索社区团体成为地方一级宣传和提供服务的工具的潜力。这一点尤其明显，捐助方未能充分分析农村地区的权力结构对目标社区真正参与的潜力产生的影响。本文借鉴了2003年6月在吉尔吉斯斯坦南部进行的实地工作。
This paper examines Western donors’ recent shift towards community development interventions in the former Soviet republics of Central Asia. In particular, it looks at the way in which donors have used traditional aspects of Central Asian society, such as ashar and the authority vested in aksakals to help facilitate their programming. The author argues that while American funded programmes in the early to mid 1990s were concerned with ‘civil society strengthening’ and democracy promotion, there is little overlap between this agenda and the newer poverty reduction focus that is being rolled out through community development projects. The potential for community based groups to become vehicles for local level advocacy as well as service delivery has not been explored. This is particularly apparent in the way in which donors have failed to give adequate analysis to power structures in rural areas that impact upon the potential for real participation by targeted communities. The paper draws on fieldwork carried out in South Kyrgyzstan in June 2003.