Development Methods and Approaches: Critical Reflections - Hardcover

Jo Rowlands

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8170339235 ISBN 13: 9788170339236

Publisher: Rawat Publication, 2006

Synopsis

Many aid agencies adopt values-based approaches to development - requiring, for instance, that they should be rights-based, participatory, gender-equitable, and sustainable - but these approaches are often at odds with the methods that the agencies actually adopt. This selection of essays offers critical readings of fashionable tools such as Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) and Logical Frameworks, in addition to presenting less familiar methods. Two central themes that a project-based approach tends to distort rather than illuminate the wider picture; and that whatever the ideology under-pinning a given method, its impact will depend on the skills and understanding of those applying it.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rawat Publication
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8170339235
• ISBN 13: 9788170339236
• Binding: Hardcover