Development Methods and Approaches
Critical Reflections
Edited by Deborah Eade
Paperback: 978 0 85598 494 6
Price: $29.95  

Publisher: Kumarian Press
December 2003 , 224 pp.,
Series: Development in Practice
Many aid agencies advocate approaches to development that are people-centered, participatory, empowering, and gender-fair. This volume explores the middle ground between such values-based approaches and the methods and techniques that the agencies adopt. 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.

Table of Contents:
1) Introduction: Development Methods and Approaches; 2) Should development agencies have Official Views?; 3) Beyond the grim resisters: gender planning; 4) Sustainable investments; 5) Organizational change from two perspectives; 6) Operationalising bottom-up learning in international NGOs: barriers and alternatives; 7) Ethnicity and participation; 8) Capacity building: shifting the paradigms; 9) Capacity building: the making of a curry; 10) Critical incidents; 11) Bridging the macro-micro divide; 12) Dissolving the difference; 13) Logical Frameworks Assessment and Participatory Rural Appraisal; 14) Critical reflections on Participatory Rural Appraisal; 15) Tools for project development; 16) Participatory methodologies; 17) Participatory Change Process


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