Integrated Community-Managed Development: Strategizing Indigenous Knowledge and Institutions for Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Community Development in Indonesia (Cooperative Management)

This book provides an overview of recent advances in Integrated Community-Managed Development (ICMD) as an innovative strategy for the community-based development of local institutions in order to achieve lasting poverty reduction and empowerment. The original approach presented here to improving the lives and livelihoods of the poor takes a critical stance on the failing concept of conventional community development, as it is based on the shifting paradigm of 'bottom-up' cooperation and development, where recent regional autonomy policies are enabling national services to successfully integrate with local institutions at the community level. 

L. Jan Slikkerveer is Professor in Ethnoscience and Development and Director of the Leiden Ethnosystems and Development Program (LEAD) of the Faculty of Science of Leiden University, The Netherlands. He has conducted several policy-based studies on local-global interaction processes of knowledge and technology in various sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa, South-East Asia and the Mediterranean region. Recently he designed - together with UNPAD, MAICH, MTF and Gema PKM -  a successful Master Course on Integrated Microfinance Management for Poverty Reduction and Empowerment in Indonesia (IMM) at the Faculty of Economics and Business of Universitas Padjadjaran in Bandung, based on a bottom-up approach to attain sustainable community development. He has published more than 100 scientific articles and books, and has so far supervised 10 PhD's at Leiden University. West Java at Leiden University. He is also Senior Lecturer in the Master course on Integrated Microfinance Management for Poverty Reduction and Empowerment in Indonesia (IMM) at the Faculty of Economics and Business of Universitas Padjadjaran in Bandung, Indonesia.