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Editorial: Making a difference
Development and humanitarian relief work, and the research, education, and funding which support them, are about making a difference to people’s lives. Those of us involved in these endeavours see the unnecessary suffering, need, deprivation, and discrimination experienced by too many people in our world, and we work for change. The pithiest definition of ‘development’ is ‘good change’ (Chambers, 1997) – change that makes a real and lasting difference to those whose rights, freedoms, opportunities, and life chances are constrained.
Development and humanitarian relief work, and the research, education, and funding which support them, are about making a difference to people’s lives. Those of us involved in these endeavours see the unnecessary suffering, need, deprivation, and discrimination experienced by too many people in our world, and we work for change. The pithiest definition of ‘development’ is ‘good change’ (Chambers, 1997) – change that makes a real and lasting difference to those whose rights, freedoms, opportunities, and life chances are constrained.
Chambers, R. (1997) ‘Editorial: Responsible well-being – a personal agenda for development’, World Development 25(11): 1743–54 <https://doi.org/10.1016/S0305-750X(97)10001-8>.
Chambers, R. (1997) ‘Editorial: Responsible well-being – a personal agenda for development’, World Development 25(11): 1743–54 <https://doi.org/10.1016/S0305-750X(97)10001-8>.
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