Ideas for DevelopmentRoutledge, 2013 M06 17 - 320 pages 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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 77
... Group and others in IDS who have helped to change the feel and culture of the institute as a place to work; to Gauriben and Bhavnaben, local leaders of SEWA in Gujarat, for the inspiration of their lives, and to Reema Nanavaty and ...
... Group for International Agricultural Research (comprises a consortium of donors, secretariat and the International Agricultural Research Centres) community-led total sanitation control-oriented, or control-over, procedure, principle or ...
... groups of farmers to observe, monitor, map, experiment, analyse, plan and act collectively to use mainly biological controls for crop pests. The quality of being impossible or difficult to restore or return to a former condition (Alcamo ...
... groups or communities of irrigators. (Occasionally participatory rapid appraisal, and now increasingly participatory reflection and action.) A family of approaches, behaviours and methods for enabling people to conduct their own ...
... groups, communities, organizations and/or other levels and/or contexts. Spread is used to include diffuse, disseminate, replicate and scale up, as well as scale out, scale down (in its sense of spreading downwards), and scale down and ...
Contents
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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 |