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
Results 1-5 of 68
... participatory practices 134 Pillars of PRA and linkages of change 162 The web of responsible well-being 194 ... approaches to development 208 7. 3 Professional, institutional and personal conditions, values, norms and roles: Shifts ...
... Participatory Irrigation Management (India) Programming and Implementation Management system 'The world's leading informal journal on participatory approaches and methods': a publication of the IIED, which began as RRA Notes (1988) for ...
... participatory rapid appraisal, and now increasingly participatory reflection and action.) A family of approaches, behaviours and methods for enabling people to conduct their own appraisal, analysis, planning, action, monitoring and ...
... participatory rural appraisal (PRA) through a series of workshops (Johansson, 2000). Participatory approaches gained strong support from the two Regional Commissioners, Colonel Nsa Kaisi and Colonel AnatoliTarimo (and, subsequently, his ...
... participatory approaches to government agencies in that project could possibly have been achieved without this continuity and sustained commitment. With aid agencies shifting to sector support and policy influence, development projects ...
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 |