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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... number of lender and donor agencies. People who, in a specific context, are subordinate or inferior to uppers. A person can be a lower in one context and an upper in another. Compare uppers ... numbers: Power and xxvi Ideas for Development.
... Numbers derived from the use of participatory approaches and methods. Words used to describe partnership, empowerment, ownership, participation, accountability and transparency. A way of acting or progressing in a course of action ...
... number of participants or of places where it takes place (after Gaventa,1998, p155). To extend or cause to extend over a wider space and/or to other individuals, groups, communities, organizations and/or other levels and/or contexts ...
... number of faces. It was always easier and involved less immediate acceptance of responsibility to allow the Scheme to continue.The chance in 1962 when the tenants could have been resettled in the former European highlands was allowed to ...
... number worldwide about 10 million a year (World Bank, 1994a; Mehta, 2002a). With dams, the word 'oustee' came to be used. Earlier, during the 1960s, Nuba and others who lost homes and livelihoods to Lake Nasser, created by the Aswan Dam ...
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 |