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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... Project: Rapid rural appraisal: Reflexivity: Replicate: Rule: Used to describe programmes in which various ... projects. A bounded and focused initiative with dedicated funding. A project may be multi-sectoral in content and ...
... project which by almost any criteria should never have been started, and once started, not continued. It performed disastrously but became increasingly difficult to abandon. In project appraisal, the political irreversibility of ...
... projects, but also about policies and programmes promoted and pursued by lenders, donors and Governments in the 2000s. Conclusions. from. Settlement. Schemes. in. Tropical. Africa. (1969). Risks and irreversibility of commitment3 A ...
... project the actual risks are compounded by the extent to which the commitment to maintain the programme or project is irreversible. The process of commitment can be lengthy, subtle and insidious. It begins with an opportunity and a ...
... projects of this sort through making it exceptionally difficult to close them down however uneconomic they may prove. There is, indeed, a strain of Utopianism in most complex settlement schemes. Often there is an idealized view of the ...
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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 |