By Jonathan Kozol
ISBN-10: 0770435661
ISBN-13: 9780770435660
Amazing Grace is Jonathan Kozol’s vintage booklet on lifestyles and dying within the South Bronx—the poorest city local of the U.S.. He brings us into overcrowded faculties, dysfunctional hospitals, and rat-infested houses the place households were ravaged via melancholy and nervousness, drug-related violence, and the unfold of AIDS. yet he additionally introduces us to dedicated and unselfish lecturers, devoted ministers, and—at the center and heart of the book—courageous and pleasant teenagers. the kids we come to satisfy during the friendships they've got shaped with Jonathan defy the stereotypes of city adolescence too usually provided by way of the media. smooth, beneficiant, and sometimes religiously religious, they communicate with eloquence and honesty in regards to the poverty and racial isolation that experience wounded yet now not hardened them. Amidst the entire depression, it's the very younger whose luminous capability for romance and transcendent feel of religion in human decency give explanation for wish.
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Mali, for example, has 13 thematic working groups and plans to add nine regional committees. According to several country studies, the O R G A N I Z I N G T H E S U P P LY S I D E O F P R S M O N I T O R I N G 27 working groups meet only once a year to prepare annual progress reports (for example, in Albania), and make little contribution to coordination. Including representatives of civil society and donors broadens participation, but care should be taken to avoid losing group coherence. In Bolivia, the membership of the four working groups was very diverse, with few common interests among the members and few incentives to dedicate the time that was required.
In some countries, budgetary systems are technically advanced, and the budget process is the key policy tool for ensuring that resources go to projects with proven impact on poverty reduction. In other countries, the official budget bears little resemblance to the real distribution of resources. In addition, the organization of government itself varies greatly across countries. A single organization, such as a finance ministry or a statistics agency, will have different responsibilities and exercise authority over different areas in different countries.
They point to the importance of formal obligations in overcoming bureaucratic inertia. Most of the monitoring systems are not supported by a regulatory framework, although regulations are anticipated in some situations. In a few instances O R G A N I Z I N G T H E S U P P LY S I D E O F P R S M O N I T O R I N G 23 (Albania, Bolivia, and the Kyrgyz Republic), monitoring strategies have been formalized through a government or presidential decree. In Latin America, there are plans to elaborate responsibilities in the form of interinstitutional agreements, but these have yet to be developed.
Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation by Jonathan Kozol
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