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A Politics of Recognition and Respect: Involving People with Experience of Poverty in Decision- Making that Affects their Lives

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The Politics of Inclusion and Empowerment

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People living in poverty and their organisations should be empowered by involving them fully in the setting of targets, and in the design, implementation, monitoring and assessment of national strategies and programmes for poverty eradication and community-based development, and ensuring that such programmes reflect their priorities.

A shorter version of this chapter was originally published in Social Policy and Society, 1, 1, 2002. Elsewhere, Fiona Williams (2000) has used the notion of ‘recognition and respect’, in her case with regard to a set of principles in welfare.

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Lister, R. (2004). A Politics of Recognition and Respect: Involving People with Experience of Poverty in Decision- Making that Affects their Lives. In: Andersen, J., Siim, B. (eds) The Politics of Inclusion and Empowerment. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403990013_8

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