| Development Methods and Approaches: Critical Reflections Contributor(s): Eade, Deborah (Author), Rowlands, Jo (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0855984945 ISBN-13: 9780855984946 Publisher: Oxfam OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2003 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Philanthropy & Charity - Social Science | Methodology - Social Science | Developing & Emerging Countries |
| Dewey: 338.900 |
| LCCN: 2004272471 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.48" W x 8.66" (0.95 lbs) 292 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Many aid agencies advocate approaches to development which are people-centered, 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 organisation 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rowlands, Jo: - Jo Rowlands is Senior Global Programme Adviser on governance and institutional accountability for Oxfam GB.Eade, Deborah: - 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. |