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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... lending and donor agencies, in governments, and in national and international NGOs, both in programme, finance and human resources departments, and in headquarters and the field. Many of the themes concern us all. Let me alert the ...
... lender, donor, provider of technical assistance or service, or engaged in advocacy. Congruence: The quality of ... Donors are typically bilateral government aid agencies and INGOs. Farmer Field A facilitated series of meetings of ...
Robert Chambers. Institutional: Integrated Pest Management: Irreversibility: Joint Forest Management: Lender ... loans for development. Typically, these are multilateral banks such as ... donor agencies. People who, in a specific context, are ...
... lenders, donors and Governments in the 2000s. Conclusions. from. Settlement. Schemes. in. Tropical. Africa. (1969). Risks and irreversibility of commitment3 A neglected aspect of evaluation, which has far wider application than merely to ...
... Bank and internationally networking activists made lenders, donors and, to a lesser degree, governments, more aware of human costs and more reluctant to fund dams and other projects which displaced people. Commitment to projects 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 |