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Module 03: Planning & Organising
3.6 What are the key issues concerning the poor?
Ensuring the management team has poverty skills
The poor and other marginalised groups should be a key part
of the consultation process at the stage of planning and
organising. Ideally, the task force must include a member (or members)
with skills and knowledge of service delivery to the poor. They could
be either members of the community, who know the situation of those
on low incomes, or public sector representatives who have worked on
poverty issues before. Alternatively, it is possible to involve a consultant
with related experience, who will provide objective recommendations
to the both sides: the provider of the service (the private contractor)
and its acceptor – the municipality.
It is important to keep in mind that poverty not only relates
to economic factors such as insufficient income, lack of
assets and lack of access to decent jobs. Poverty also relates to:
social, political and cultural factors such as discrimination based
on gender, ethnicity, caste, age or disability; lack of access to education
and training; bad health; lack of representation; lack of empowerment;
and vulnerability to shocks and crises. All these factors are interrelated
and, as a consequence, people with skills and knowledge in all these
complex matters should be included in the planning and organising process.
End of Module 3
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