Building capacity through participation Nauru national sustainable development strategy by Kevin Balm
Material type: ArticleSeries: Capacity development series. Pacific choicePublication details: Manila, Philippines Asian Development Bank (ADB) 2008Description: 26 p. ill. 23 cmISBN:- 9789715617314
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"For years, Nauru, a small Pacific island nation (population 10,000), benefited from the considerable wealth generated from its only major natural resource, phosphate. However, when that resource was almost exhausted and national assets held under the Nauru Phosphate Royalties Trust (NPRT) had been reduced to relatively minor holdings, the Government of Nauru sought and received assistance from Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) to prepare a National Sustainable Development Strategy to guide future development in the country. This case study examines innovative efforts to strengthen participatory capacity in Nauru to support development of the new strategy, focusing on the design and implementation of a participatory planning process which engendered wide community engagement and included communications with communities about the choices and trade-offs facing them moving forward."