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Development Methods and Approaches: Critical reflections
Rowlands, Jo
Rowlands, Jo
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2003-06-01
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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 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.
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Contributors; Preface; Beyond the comfort zone: some issues, questions, and challenges in thinking about development approaches and methods; Dissolving the difference between humanitarianism and development: the mixing of a rights-based solution; Should development agencies have Official Views?; Bridging the ‘macro'-‘micro' divide in policy-oriented research: two African experiences; Capacity building: shifting the paradigms of practice; Capacity building: the making of a curry; Operationalising bottom-up learning in international NGOs: barriers and alternatives; Organisational change from two perspectives: gender and
organisational development; Beyond the ‘grim resisters': towards more effective gender mainstreaming through stakeholder participation; Sustainable investments: women's contributions to natural resource management projects in Africa; Critical Incidents in emergency relief work; Tools for project development within a public action framework; Ethnicity and participatory development methods in Botswana: some participants are to be seen and not heard; Logical Framework Approach and PRA - mutually exclusive or complementary tools for project planning?; Critical reflections on rapid and participatory rural appraisal; Participatory methodologies: double-edged swords; The Participatory Change Process: a capacity building model from a US NGO; Two approaches to evaluating the outcomes of development projects; Resources; Index
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Development in Practice Readers
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978-0-85598-494-6