scholarly journals Correction to: Citizens Committees and Local Elites: Elite Capture, Captured Elites, and Absent Elites in Health Facility Committees

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Benoit Falisse ◽  
Hugues Nkengurutse
Keyword(s):  
Health Facility ◽  
Elite Capture ◽  
Local Elites

scholarly journals Citizens Committees and Local Elites: Elite Capture, Captured Elites, and Absent Elites in Health Facility Committees

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Benoit Falisse ◽  
Hugues Nkengurutse
Keyword(s):  
Health Facility ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
Elite Capture ◽  
Local Elites ◽  
Faith Leaders ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Local Leaders

AbstractMainstream development policies often promote citizens committees to oversee basic social services. Such committees require influence over, and legitimacy among, service providers and citizens to perform their roles, which local elites can help or hinder. Using a mixed-methods approach, we analyse the situation in 251 health facility committees in Burundi, part of which benefited from interventions designed to bolster their relationship with local leaders. Interviews and focus groups reveal that leaders’ support is essential for committees to access citizens and work with nurses, but the failure of the interventions show it is hard to nurture. The local socio-political elites (politicians, faith leaders) bypass and ignore the committees. In a ‘fragile’ context such as Burundi’s, the lack of political elite capture attempt suggests a largely vacuous committee system. The committees remain a façade participatory institution. Understanding and engaging with local everyday local politics is crucial for committee-based development approaches.

scholarly journals Does Elite Capture Matter? Local Elites and Targeted Welfare Programs in Indonesia

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivi Alatas ◽  
Abhijit V. Banerjee ◽  
Rema Hanna ◽  
Benjamin A. Olken ◽  
Ririn Purnamasari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Welfare Programs ◽  
Elite Capture ◽  
Local Elites

scholarly journals Understanding Education Decentralization and 'Sustained' Elite Capture – Explicating Cases From Two Public Schools

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-45
Author(s):  
Sanjay Hamal
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Elite Capture ◽  
Organization Management ◽  
Local Elites ◽  
Local Resources ◽  
Educational Decentralization ◽  
Selection Of

The paper aims at uncovering the practices of educational decentralization in Nepal that started after the restoration of democracy in 1990. Though decentralization in education in Nepal began with the aim of greater community participation and autonomy to the needs and priorities perceived by the local level functionaries in school, it has been subject to elite capture in its governance. Because of control in planning, organization, management, financial liability and different activities for the education system, the paper argues that practices of educational decentralization have been shaped by the local elites who capture the local resources and power to operate the school with their network and 'one-upmanship'. While arguing so, the paper is based on the ethnographic case study of two public schools located in the Mid-Western region of Nepal. Applying the Gramscian concept of hegemony, the paper narrates the process of a 'sustained' selection of the School Management Committee Chairpersons and shows how they negotiate and balance their power to sustain their capture.  The paper concludes that the informal mechanisms of individual attributes such as trust and capital are playing an important role in their sustained elitism.

scholarly journals Does Elite Capture Matter? Local Elites and Targeted Welfare Programs in Indonesia

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivi Alatas ◽  
Abhijit Banerjee ◽  
Rema Hanna ◽  
Benjamin Olken ◽  
Ririn Purnamasari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Welfare Programs ◽  
Elite Capture ◽  
Local Elites

NGOs, elite capture and community-driven development: perspectives in rural Mozambique

2013 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Arnall ◽  
David S.G. Thomas ◽  
Chasca Twyman ◽  
Diana Liverman
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Elite Capture ◽  
Checks And Balances ◽  
Local Elites

ABSTRACTThis article examines the problems of elite capture in community-driven development (CDD). Drawing on two case studies of non-governmental organisation (NGO) intervention in rural Mozambique, the authors consider two important variables – (1) the diverse and complex contributions of local elites to CDD in different locations and (2) the roles that non-elites play in monitoring and controlling leader activities – to argue that donors should be cautious about automatically assuming the prevalence of malevolent patrimonialism and its ill-effects in their projects. This is because the ‘checks and balances’ on elite behaviour that exist within locally defined and historically rooted forms of community-based governance are likely to be more effective than those introduced by the external intervener.

The quantitative and qualitative contributions of faith based organizations to healthcare: The Kenya case

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 60-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfredo Fort
Keyword(s):  
Health Facility ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Developing World ◽  
Weighted Average ◽  
Relative Strength ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Faith Based Organizations ◽  
The Government

Though difficult to ascertain because faith based organizations (FBOs) might keep a low profile, be confused with other non-governmental organizations (NGOs), or survey respondents may not know the nature of facilities attended to, these organizations have a long presence in teaching health personnel and delivering health services in many rural and remote populations in the developing world. It is argued that their large networks, logistics agreements with governments, and mission-driven stance brings them closer to the communities they serve, and their services believed of higher quality than average. Kenya has a long history of established FBOs substantial recent health investment by the government. We aimed to find the quantitative and qualitative contributions of FBOs by analyzing two recent data sources: the live web-based nationwide Master Health Facility List, and the 2010 nationwide Service Provision Assessment (SPA) survey. Using this information, we found that FBOs contribute to 11% of all health facilities’ presence in the country, doubling to 23% of all available beds, indicating their relative strength in owning mid-level hospitals around the country. We also constructed an index of readiness as a weighted average from services offered, good management practices and availability of medicines and commodities for 17 items assessed during the SPA survey. We found that FBOs topped the list of managing authorities, with 70 percent of health facility readiness, followed closely by the government at 69 percent, NGOs at 61 percent and lastly a distant private for profit sector at 50 percent. These results seem to indicate that FBOs continue to contribute to an important proportion of health care coverage in Kenya, and that they do so with a relatively high quality of care among all actors. It would be of interest to replicate the analysis with similar databases for other countries in the developing world.

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