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Development and Social Diversity

Mary Anderson

Series: Development in Practice Reader

Published: 1996
Pages: 112

eBook: 9780855986964

Paperback: 9780855983437

Social diversity hinges on three universal human realities. First, that each individual is unique. Second, that individuals and their societies are inter-related and inter-dependent. And third, that societies and cultures are dynamic: change, whether rapid or gradual, affects different members of society in ways that reflect differences in power and status. In this collection Naila Kabeer examines the meaning of gender relations in the contexts of development practice and of development institutions: a theme taken up by Lewis B. Dzimbiri in relation to refugee programmes and by Yezichalem Kassa and Feleke Tadele in diagnosing the needs of rural communities. Mark Gorman focuses on the needs of elderly people, while Tom and Francesca Scanlon and Maria Luiza Nobre Lamarao describe the challenges of working with street children and adolescents. Shubi L. Ishemo argues against approaches to development and relief that are not culturally familiar to the people affected.
* Preface
Deborah Eade
* Understanding difference and building solidarity: a challenge to development initiatives
Mary B. Anderson;
* Gender, development and training: raising awareness in the planning process
Naila Kabeer
* Working with street children
Tom Scanlon, Francesca Scanlon and Maria Luiza Nobre Lamarao
* Older people and development: the last minority?
Mark Gorman
* Culture, liberation and "development"
Shubi L. Ishemo
* The politics of development in longhouse communities in Sarawak
Dimbab Ngidang
* What is development?
Hugo Slim
* Research into local culture:implications for participatory development
Odhiambo Anacleti
* An education programme for peasant women in Honduras
Rocio Tabora
* Challenging gender stereotypes in training: Mozambican refugees in Malawi
Lewis B Dzimbiri;
* Defining local needs: a community based diagnostic survey in Ethiopia
Yezichalem Kassa and Feleke Tadele
* Empowerment examined
Jo Rowlands
* Some thoughts on gender and culture
Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay
* Who is the expert?
Valerie Emblen
* Annotated bibliography

Mary Anderson Mary B. Anderson is President of the Collaborative for Development Action, Inc., a small consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. An economist, Mary Anderson has specialized in: rural development strategies that build on local capacities; gender analysis in development programming; the relationships between emergency relief assistance and long-term development; and educational policies as these affect access to primary education in developing countries

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