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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... Settlement schemes in tropical Africa (2004) Conclusions from settlement schemes in tropical Africa (1969) Learning from project pathology:The case of Perkerra Part 2: Developments, Concepts and Discourse (2004) 9 Agricultural settlement ...
... Settlement Schemes in Tropical Africa:A Study of Organisations and Development (Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1969, pp257–262), and final section of Chapter M 'The Perkerra irrigation scheme: A contrasting case', in Mwea:An ...
... settlement schemes in tropical Africa from the late 1960s and early 1970s. Part 2 reviews subsequent developments with settlement schemes, and then explores and develops wider contemporary meanings, relevance and applications for three ...
... a high risk that it will take longer than expected. At the point at which implementation of a settlement scheme or programme is considered, all 2 Ideas for Development Conclusions from settlement schemes in tropical Africa (1969)
... settlement schemes. Often there is an idealized view of the human situation that settlement will create. In colonial times this was often the stabilized African, fixed and controlled on a piece of land. Since independence, it has varied ...
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 |