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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... Irrigation Scheme in Kenya was one such project which by almost any criteria should never have been started, and ... Irrigation Settlement in Kenya, and then concentrated on its stronger sibling, Mwea. The Mwea Irrigation Settlement had ...
Robert Chambers. criteria more successful; it had a stable water supply and in irrigated rice a reliable crop and a protected market; it was better organized; it had a high profile and was frequently visited, being a convenient distance ...
... irrigation scheme at Khasm-el-Girba; and the evacuees from theVolta Lake were thought to provide 'a unique opportunity to wean an appreciable proportion of Ghana's farmers from the wasteful, fragmented, and shifting system of ...
... irrigation. From the start, capital and recurrent costs were high and revenue negligible.Tenants were settled but many left. Areas irrigated consistently fell far short of those targeted. Agricultural and marketing problems were ...
... irrigation which had been destroyed [by a flood in 1919], leading to preliminary surveys and then to a situation in which the idea of irrigation was at large and ready to be seized on whenever an opportunity presented itself. There was ...
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 |