Indigenous organizations are local-level institutions with a community base, such as women's groups, ethnic associations, traditional religious groups, and a wide variety of other social groups.

Preface vii
NORMAN UPHOFF
Acknowledgement xii
Introduction xiii
PETER BLUNT AND D. MICHAEL WARREN
PART 1 AFRICA
1. The drum speaks—Are we listening? Experiences in
development with a traditional Gabra institution—The
Yaa Galbo 1
B.J. LINQUIST WITH DAVID ADOLPH
2. Traditional settlement, cultural identity and rural
development in the Transkei 7
PATRICK A. MCALLISTER
3. Hometown associations: Balancing local and extralocal
interests in Nigerian communities 21
MICHAEL L. McNULTY AND MARK F. LAWRENCE
4. Indigenous organizations and development:
The case of Ara, Nigeria 43
D. MICHAEL WARREN, REMIADEDOKUN AND
AKINTOLA OMOLAOYE
5. The Ogbomoso Parapo: A case-study of an indigenous
development association in Nigeria 50
G. O. KOLAWOLE
6. Community development associations and self-reliance:
The case of Isalu Community Development Union, Iseyin,
Nigeria 56
BOLANLE W. WAHAB
1. The importance of indigenous organizations to the
sustainability of contemporary Yoruba strip-weaving industries
in Iseyin, Nigeria 67
NORMA H. WOLFF AND BOLANLE W. WAHAB
8. Traditional leadership and community management in Northern
Ghana 88
NANCY COSWAY AND STEVE A. ANANKUM
9. Indigenous healer associations and a South African AIDSprevention
project 97
EDWARD C GREEN AND BONGIE ZOKWE
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PART II INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT
10. History of an indigenous community management
organization in Nepal 109
DURGA POKHREL AND ANTHONY B. J. WILLET
11. Building on the Panchayat: Using Jal Samitis in Uttar
Pradesh 123
YOGESH KUMAR
12. Informal institutions of financial intermediation: Social
value of Vishis, chit funds and self-help groups 132
TUSHAAR SHAH AND MICHAEL JOHNSON
13. Taking count of the depth of the ditches: Understanding local
organization forms, their problems and strategic responses 143
NIDHI SRINIVAS
PART III ASIA-PACIFIC
Australia and New Zealand
14. Aboriginal agenda or agency agenda? Community-development
planning projects in Australia 159
JACKIE WOLFE-KEDDIE
15. Yolngu rom: Indigenous knowledge in north Australia 184
IAN HUGHES
16. Community development among the New Zealand Maori:
The Tainui case 193
TOON VAN MEIJL
Canada
17. Indigenous organizations for development in the Canadian north:
Native development corporations 214
LEO PAUL DANA
China
18. The role of indigenous organizations in the rural
development of China: A case-study of a non-farm productive
activity 220
LI XIAOYUN, LI OU AND ZHOU SHENGKUN
Indonesia
19. Using indigenous organizations from West Kalimantan 228
CAROL J. PIERCE COLFER, REED L. WADLEY AND
ENIS WIDJANARTI
Philippines
20. Personal networks and agricultural extension in the Philippines 239
RICARDO C. ARMONIA

Peter Blunt From 2008 to November 2011, Peter Blunt held a senior (level GH) staff position with the World Bank in Jakarta, as programme manager of the multi-donor Decentralisation Support Facility that is supporting the government’s programme of decentralisation. He is a consultant specialising in governance and public sector management in developing countries. He is currently a Freelance consultant at Blunt and Associates P/L, Sydney, Australia.

D Michael Warren Professor Dennis Michael Warren was an anthropologist and leading Africanist scholar who taught at Iowa State University from 1972 to1997. Professor Warren was especially interested in indigenous knowledge and rural development in Africa. His interest in indigenous knowledge led him to the study of art, culture, the rural economy and traditional healing in Ghana and Nigeria and to comparative studies of other societies.