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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... Mwea:An Irrigated Rice Settlement in Kenya, 1973 (edited jointly with Jon Moris,Weltforumverlag, Munchen, 1973, pp361–364). Chapter 2 Reproduced from 'Executive capacity as a scarce resource', International Development Review (June ...
... Mwea. The Mwea Irrigation Settlement had several advantages. It was by most criteria more successful; it had a stable water supply and. All words are pegs to hang ideas on (Henry Ward Beecher, 1887). Words and Ideas: Commitment ...
... Mwea, and the managers were so interested and articulate that we were able to combine to produce a book with 13 chapters and 529 pages (Chambers and Moris, 1973).2 In parallel, numerous studies of settlement schemes were undertaken in ...
... Mwea [in Kenya], inviting development after the Kenya Land Commission's recommendations; the bush of South Busoga [in Uganda] after its evacuation in the first decade of this century; the narrow strip of uncultivated land on the edge of ...
... Mwea Irrigation Settlement. Lessons from Perkerra (1973) Many lessons could be culled from the Perkerra experience. Only some of the more obvious and important will be mentioned here. In the first place, the high costs and risks of ...
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 |
6 Behaviour Attitudes and Beyond | 156 |
7 For Our Future | 184 |
References | 221 |
Index | 252 |