Reports, Publications and Resources

Introduction

In this section of the site you can find publications, information materials, books, journal articles, materials of conferences and seminars, educational models, newsletters and success stories, prepared by different civic, public and international organizations and foundations. These materials will offer information on different aspects of local communities empowerment: problems, reasons, analysis of the existing national strategy, assessment of their results and further activity perspectives on community empowerment.

Recent publications and resources

Miklos Barabas reports about the Hungarian one per cent law, passed by the parliament in 1996, allowing every taxpayer to specify an NGO to which one per cent of his/her yearly income tax is allocated (another per cent can be given to churches). The new scheme quickly became popular, and in 2005 the income of NGOs from the one per cent scheme reached 28 million euros. The sum is respectable but could be even higher as it is only about 64 per cent of the annually available 44 million euros.

The IRIS/USAID project on developing poverty assessment tools has collected data on the poverty status of 12 low-income countries, adapting measurement tools for country-specific use. This paper proposes a methodology to construct an international poverty tool, or set of tools, that are easily applicable to a range of political economies.

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