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. |
From inside the book
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... action, reflection, learning and good change. In development, we will always live in flux.We will always need to learn and unlearn in order to do better. We will always travel and never arrive. Ideas for development will always be ...
... Learning and Action) Notes, Social Change (New Delhi), and World Development. The publications and dates were: Chapter 1 Final section of Chapter 12 'Some practical implications', in Settlement Schemes in Tropical Africa:A Study of ...
... Action Learning System power and relationship Pastoralists' Communication Initiative, PO Box 20768, addis Ababa 1000, Ethiopia Tel: 251 1444 196 Email: globalpastoralistgathering@yahoo.co.uk participation- or people-empowering procedure ...
... learning and action Regenerated Freirian Literacy through Empowering Community Techniques Email: reflectaction@yahoo.co.uk www.reflect-action.org Rural Integrated Project Support Programme (Tanzania) rapid rural appraisal South Asia ...
... course of action, typically with a sequence of actions. Procedures belong to the category of rules only when they are authoritatively required. A general initiative with broad funding, often in a sector and involving the budget of a ...
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 |