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.

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.

Jo Rowlands Jo Rowlands is Senior Global Programme Adviser on governance and institutional accountability for Oxfam GB.

Working with Assumptions in International Development Program Evaluation

Designing Complex Development Programs

Nkwake, Apollo M.

2020

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33004-0_3 [Citations: 0]

Books Received

Development and Change, Vol. 35 (2004), Iss. 2 P.404

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7660.2004.00358.x [Citations: 0]

Editorial

Eade, Deborah

Development in Practice, Vol. 20 (2010), Iss. 2 P.155

https://doi.org/10.1080/09614520903554414 [Citations: 0]

Marx, Weber and NGOs

Helliker, Kirk

South African Review of Sociology, Vol. 38 (2007), Iss. 2 P.120

https://doi.org/10.1080/21528586.2007.10419171 [Citations: 0]

Post-Crash Economics

Student Reflections and Post-Crash Economics

Feraboli, Omar

2018

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65855-1_2 [Citations: 0]

Working with Assumptions in International Development Program Evaluation

Evaluating Complex Programs

Nkwake, Apollo M.

2020

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33004-0_4 [Citations: 0]

Towards a method for postcolonial development geography? Possibilities and challenges

Raghuram, Parvati

Madge, Clare

Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, Vol. 27 (2006), Iss. 3 P.270

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9493.2006.00262.x [Citations: 76]