Propoor growth and natural resources: coalitions for change

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Pro-poor growth and natural resources coalitions
for change

• Demonstrate positive contribution of natural
  resources to pro-poor growth
• Why does natural resources not contribute more to
  pro-poor growth
• Political challenges and trade-offs
• Coalitions for change and role for development
  agencies

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Background

• Discussion in Paris June 2004
• Support from DAC ENVIRONET
• Berlin workshop compare and contrast across
  resources (forests, minerals, fish, wildlife and
  water)
• Future joint work

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Berlin workshop

• Natural capital in poor countries and households
• Top down and bottom up approach to pro-poor
  growth
• Conflicts
• Sustainability (national and global)
• Diversification natural resoures

4
Possible outputs

• Process of understanding and operationalising
  approach
• Value added more NR investment, trade-offs and
  politics of change
• Sharing country and resource work (web site,
  ToRs, workshops)
• Questions linked to analytical approach (testing
  questions, synthesis paper)

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Next steps

• Comment on workshop outputs
• Upload to website existing work
• Sharing ToRs for new work
• March/April meeting 2005 (GTZ or DFID)
• First draft synthesis paper (May 2005)