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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... example, the tractors appearing on Chesa in Rhodesia and on the Kenya Million-Acre Schemes as a result of settler initiative represent a self-sustaining upward movement in which productivity may increase without heavy government ...
... example, industrial plants, harbours, roads, railways, telecommunications, airports and irrigation projects. The 1970s became a heyday for area-based initiatives, including Integrated Rural Development Projects promoted and supported by ...
... example, participatory media were developed (deWaal, 2000) through a village radio network and through participatory video. These enabled people to make claims and supported mediation between competing or conflicting stakeholders ...
... example, stands out for its short-term swings of policy and vocabulary, and its relative unreliability.21 Overall, the shift from projects to sector programmes and policy influence may have meant a move for aid agencies from the ...
... examples, if we are to assure options and resources for future generations, irreversibility simply has to be a key concept embedded in our thinking and informing our decisions and actions and nonactions. It is then striking that it is ...
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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 |