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Development Methods and Approaches
Critical reflections
Series: Development in Practice Reader
Published: 2003
Pages: 304
eBook: 9780855987008
Paperback: 9780855984946
Many aid agencies advocate approaches to development which are people-centred, participatory, empowering and gender-fair. This volume of essays explores some of the middle ground between such values-based approaches and the methods and techniques that the agencies adopt. The selection offers critical assessments of fashionable tools such as Participatory Rural Appraisal and Logical Framework. It demonstrates how these are linked (conceptually and in practice) to the wider ideological environment in which they are used, and shows how they depend upon the skills of the fieldworker and/or organization applying them. Contributors argue that tools and methods will contribute to a values-based approach only if those using them have a serious commitment to a social agenda which is genuinely transformative.
Contributors
Preface Deborah Eade
Beyond the comfort zone Jo Rowlands
Dissolving the difference Hugo Slim
Should development agencies have Official Views David Ellerman
Bridging the macri-micro divide David Booth
Capacity Building William Postma
Operationalising bottom up learning Grant Power
Organisational change Penny Plowman
Beyond the grim resisters P Howard
Sustainable investments B Thomas Slayter
Critical Incidents M Raymond-McKay
Tools David Wield
Ethnicity and participatory development T Mompati
Logical Framework Approach and PRA Jens Aune
Critical reflections on rapid and participatory rural appraisal Robert Leurs
Participatory methodologies E Ngunjiri
The participatory change process P Castelloe
Two approaches M Meyer
Resources
Addresses of publishers
Index
Preface Deborah Eade
Beyond the comfort zone Jo Rowlands
Dissolving the difference Hugo Slim
Should development agencies have Official Views David Ellerman
Bridging the macri-micro divide David Booth
Capacity Building William Postma
Operationalising bottom up learning Grant Power
Organisational change Penny Plowman
Beyond the grim resisters P Howard
Sustainable investments B Thomas Slayter
Critical Incidents M Raymond-McKay
Tools David Wield
Ethnicity and participatory development T Mompati
Logical Framework Approach and PRA Jens Aune
Critical reflections on rapid and participatory rural appraisal Robert Leurs
Participatory methodologies E Ngunjiri
The participatory change process P Castelloe
Two approaches M Meyer
Resources
Addresses of publishers
Index
Deborah Eade
Deborah Eade was Editor-in-Chief of Development in Practice from 1991 to 2010, prior to which she worked for 10 years in Latin America. She is now an independent writer on development and humanitarian issues, based near Geneva.
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