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Deconstructing Development Discourse: Buzzwords and Fuzzwords

01/11/2010

1 documents

333 pages long

Languages: English

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Development methods

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Writing from diverse locations, contributors critically examine some of the key terms in current development discourse. Why should language matter to those who are doing development? Surely, there are more urgent things to do than sit around mulling over semantics? But language does matter. Whether emptied of their original meaning, essentially vacuous, or hotly contested, […]

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Development Methods and Approaches: Critical reflections

01/06/2003

1 documents

302 pages long

Languages: English

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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 […]

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Development and Cities

01/04/2002

1 documents

380 pages long

Languages: English

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Approaches to sustainable development in cities of the South have focused too exclusively on narrow technical aspects of environmental protection, with no benefit to most residents in cities and peri-urban areas. However, in many countries of the South, the disengagement of government, along with budgetary constraints, a reliance on cost-recovery mechanisms within structural adjustment packages, […]

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Development and Advocacy

01/02/2002

1 documents

214 pages long

Languages: English

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Most major development NGOs dedicate significant resources to advocacy. Many also work to inform and shape public opinion, whether through advertising or fundraising, or through education programmes. They argue that fundamental change is not achieved until the policy environment is right, and cannot be sustained without a ground-swell of support for reform. In recent years, […]

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Development and Agroforestry: Scaling up the impacts of research

01/01/2002

1 documents

216 pages long

Languages: English

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Agriculturalists have been benefiting from the range of products and services that trees can supply for thousands of years. Through the intergration of trees into agricultural landscapes, farmers and land users at all levels can enjoy diversified production, and a range of social, economic, and environmental benefits. Agroforestry is the scientific application of this widespread […]

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Development and Culture

01/01/2002

1 documents

220 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Development methods

Overview

Development in Practice Readers draw on the contents of the acclaimed international journal Development in Practice. They offer thematic collections of papers by practitioners, policy makers, scholars, and activists. Each book includes an original introductory essay and an annotated resource list of recent publications, as well as relevant journals, organisations, and websites, constituting an essential […]

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Debating Development: NGO’s and the future

19/10/2000

1 documents

424 pages long

Languages: English

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Non-government organisations working in the humanitarian and development sectors won official approval in the 1980’s and 1990’s, but there are signs now that they are losing favour. The NGO sector stands accused by some of complacency and self-interest, on the one hand, and of being ineffectual and irrelevant on the other. NGOs are increasingly challenged […]

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Development, NGOs and Civil Society

01/01/2000

2 documents

212 pages long

Languages: English

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As public spending has declined, NGOs have secured a measure of financial security by taking on service-indelivery. At the same time, they are a convenient channel through which official agencies can promote political pluralism. But can NGOs both facilitate governments’ withdrawals from providing basic services for all and also claim to represent and speak for […]

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Development and Management

01/01/2000

5 documents

328 pages long

Languages: English

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Development is a complex process of negotiation over meanings, values, and social goals within the sphere of public action, and not merely a question of project-based interventions, or of quantifiable inputs and outputs. This collection of papers draws on The Open University’s path-breaking work in the field of development management, and includes in-depth accounts by […]

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Development and Social Action

01/01/1999

1 documents

195 pages long

Languages: English

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Civil-society organisations are playing an increasingly prominent role in promoting policy change in favour of poor people, whether through advocacy or through direct action mid popular mobilisation. In the global realignment following the end of the Cold War. the challenge is to move from mere protest and opposition to constructive forms of engagement, both with […]

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