Ideas for DevelopmentRoutledge, 17/06/2013 - 320 من الصفحات Our world seems entangled in systems increasingly dominated by power, greed, ignorance, self-deception and denial, with spiralling inequity and injustice. Against a backdrop of climate change, failing ecosystems, poverty, crushing debt and corporate exploitation, the future of our world looks dire and the solutions almost too monumental to consider. Yet all is not lost. Robert Chambers, one of the ?glass is half full? optimists of international development, suggests that the problems can be solved and everyone has the power at a personal level to take action, develop solutions and remake our world as it can and should be. Chambers peels apart and analyses aspects of development that have been neglected or misunderstood. In each chapter, he presents an earlier writing which he then reviews and reflects upon in a contemporary light before harvesting a wealth of powerful conclusions and practical implications for the future. The book draws on experiences from Africa, Asia and elsewhere, covering topics and concepts as wide and varied as irreversibility, continuity and commitment; administrative capacity as a scarce resource; procedures and principles; participation in the past, present and future; scaling up; behaviour and attitudes; responsible wellbeing; and concepts for development in the 21st century. |
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... examples on which I draw are mainly from sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, with some from the Caribbean, and rather few from Latin America. A further weakness is that I am vulnerable to optimism and enthusiasm, and often tend to see what ...
... example 'ask them' from PRA. A way of doing something. A system of methods and principles. A principle or practice about which an organization or individual is not willing to compromise. A pattern of mutually consistent and supporting ...
... example, the number of participants or of places where it takes place (after Gaventa,1998, p155). To extend or cause to extend over a wider space and/or to other individuals, groups, communities, organizations and/or other levels and/or ...
... example, to see the large quantities of fine onions grown on the Perkerra Scheme in Kenya, and to compare the green irrigated fields with the surrounding desert, and at the same time to sustain a conviction that the Scheme should be ...
... example, for the expected patterns of settler and managerial behaviour, for departmentalism, for staff discontinuities and for the inbuilt incompatibilities of scheme systems. Moreover, comparisons with alternative approaches to ...
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2 Aid and Administrative Capacity | 30 |
3 Procedures Principles and Power | 54 |
Review Reflections and Future | 86 |
5 PRA Participation and Going to Scale | 119 |
6 Behaviour Attitudes and Beyond | 156 |
7 For Our Future | 184 |
References | 221 |
Index | 252 |