Ideas for DevelopmentOur 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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... Participation: Review, Reflections and Future 86 Part 1: Participation: Rhetoric and Reality (1974) 86 Managing local participation: Rhetoric and reality 86 Part 2: Applications, Potentials and Transformations (2004) 97 Looking back 97 ...
... participation In search of deeper training, learning and change Space and time for critical reflection and change Direct experiential learning through research, immersions and reflection For Our Future Responsible Well—being: a Personal ...
... participation 105 How PRA has spread: sequences, speed, scale and quality of change 130 Modes for scaling up participatory practices 134 Pillars of PRA and linkages of change 162 The Web of responsible Well—being 194 Transforming power ...
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