Development Methods and Approaches - Critical reflections (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Oxfam
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Development in Practice Reader
Release date:	December 2003
First published:	2003
Authors:	Deborah Eade
Introduction by:	Jo Rowlands
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-0-85598-494-6
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Development studies Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Development economics Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social work > Aid & relief programmes
LSN:	0-85598-494-5
Barcode:	9780855984946

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