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ADB's Poverty Reduction Strategy published in 1999, has a framework based on three elements (pps. 8-14):

Participatory processes are included as important strategies to achieve the overall goal of poverty reduction.

'..when designing interventions, consultations with the poor are essential to ensure their priorities and preferences are truly being addressed'. (p. 22)
'Procedures for identifying and designing projects will help empower the poor and civil organizations that represent them'. (p.23)
'In the past, institutional capacity building has been focused on government institutions; in future the emphasis will increasingly be on the client, i.e., community-based organizations, peoples' organizations and cooperatives'. (p.25)
'ADB support will increasing address the critical issue of sustainable resource management. This will entail special emphasis on the rights (and responsibilities) of indigenous peoples and traditional users'. (p.26)
'At the policy level, ADB will continue to support governments in developing, in a participatory manner, master plans for effective management of critical water, forest, and marine resources'. (p.26)
'ADB will .(ii) involve stakeholders in the process of poverty analysis and encourage their participation in the huigh-level poverty forums (that precede the country operational strategies and partnership agreements)..' (p.36)

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