Using new evidence from a three year programme of research in developing countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa, the authors describe how government organizations have been privatised, decentralised or restructured while private sector organizations - both non-profit and commercial - have taken on increasingly important roles in resource management and service supply.
This book provides an important and easily accessible point of reference for decision-makers and students alike, offering unique view in its breadth of coverage across the natural resources sector and a range of different institutional types and approaches to resource management.

"Process" approaches to economic and social development appear to be more flexible and offer greater prospects of success than traditional "project" methods.
Development as Process addresses the questions raised by the different natures of the two approaches. The authors examine development projects through experience in water resources development in India and in organizational learning by a Bangladeshi NGO. Inter-agency contexts are examined in the setting of an aquaculture project in Bangladesh and in the setting of agriculture and natural resources development in Rajisthan, India. Finally, the role of process monitoring is explained in the context of policy reform, with illustrations from forestry in India and land reform in Russia.

Insufficiences and inequities in food production and supply in poor countries need to be addressed as problems of both agricultural resource management and rural democratization. "Reluctant Partners?" combines comprehensive empirical insights into NGO's work in agriculture with wider considerations of their relations with the State and their contribution to democratic pluralism. This overview volume for the "Non-Governmental Organizations" series contextualizes the case study material in the three regional volumes on Africa, Asia and Latin America, where over 60 specially commissioned case studies of farmer participatory approaches to agricultural innovation are presented. Specific questions are raised. How good/bad are NGOs at promoting technological innovation and addressing contraints to change in peasant culture? How effective are NGOs at strengthening local organizations? How do/will donor pressures influence NGOs and their links to the state?.

Insufficiences and inequities in food production and supply in poor countries need to be addressed as problems of both agricultural resource management and rural democratization. "Reluctant Partners?" combines comprehensive empirical insights into NGO's work in agriculture with wider considerations of their relations with the State and their contribution to democratic pluralism. This overview volume for the "Non-Governmental Organizations" series contextualizes the case study material in the three regional volumes on Africa, Asia and Latin America, where over 60 specially commissioned case studies of farmer participatory approaches to agricultural innovation are presented. Specific questions are raised. How good/bad are NGOs at promoting technological innovation and addressing contraints to change in peasant culture? How effective are NGOs at strengthening local organizations? How do/will donor pressures influence NGOs and their links to the state?.

Presents twenty specially commissioned case studies of farmer participatory approaches to agricultural innovation initiated by NGOs in Asia with case material set within the context of NGOs' relations with the state.

Using new evidence from a three year programme of research in developing countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa, the authors describe how government organizations have been privatised, decentralised or restructured while private sector organizations - both non-profit and commercial - have taken on increasingly important roles in resource management and service supply. This book provides an important and easily accessible point of reference for decision-makers and students alike, offering unique view in its breadth of coverage across the natural resources sector and a range of different institutional types and approaches to resource management.

Shawn Brush was born with morquio disease, one of the causes of dwarfism. He loves life, but rarely has a pain-free day. "I say this," says Shawn, who is 38, "not to evoke any sympathy or even empathy. "Being a little person is not being a mini-you," he says. "I am not just a regular, normal person in the body half the size of an average-sized person. "Being small is not a regular life from a lower-to-the-ground perspective. "It is not being a man in a child's body," says Shawn. In fact, it is quite the opposite.
Shawn is a young man living in an old man's body. When he was in his mid-20s a doctor told him he had the bones of an 85-year-old "Don't ever think I wouldn't have liked to be a strapping six-footer with a wife, kids, job. But I am happy in the body I am in'' Shawn is a singer-songwriter. He's released 11 CDs in the past 15 years, many of them showcasing his own compositions. Shawn has a number of goals. One is to go on tour, but that may never happen. His health and energy limit him. He finds it difficult to play two nights in a row - even sleeping in his own bed each night. Another is to be independent - busking in 2007 took him closer to that goal. Yet another is to have others read his story and be inspired to reach their full potential. This book could achieve that