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Context-Sensitive Development - How International NGOs Operate in Myanmar (Paperback)
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Context-Sensitive Development - How International NGOs Operate in Myanmar (Paperback)
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Development is a difficult endeavor in any environment, much more
so in places such as Myanmar with its "perfect storm" of extreme
poverty, international sanctions, and political repression and
human rights violations with concomitant conflicts within
development organisations over norms and policies. This book
examines how to affect successful development interventions in
Myanmar. The author points out how practitioners have questioned
universal economic prescriptions for development in ways that they
have not questioned the normative foundations behind their work.
Ware does not argue for a facile moral relativism; he sees Myanmar
as an egregious violator of human rights, but he does call for
"context sensitivity" to help organisations adapt their values to
meet better the needs of client populations. Through fieldwork and
an extensive series of interviews, Ware brings into focus key
issues of perception and practice that are intrinsic to the
development enterprise. Although the focus is on Myanmar as a
quintessential "difficult" case, Ware shows how his conclusions can
be used elsewhere. His book represents a major contribution to both
development theory and practice, vital for both the classroom and
the development organisation in situ.
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