People First A Guide to Self-Reliant, Participatory Rural Development

Name: People First A Guide to Self-Reliant, Participatory Rural Development
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ISBN: 9781856490825

ISBN-10: 1856490823

ISBN-13: 9781856490825

Edition: 1993 (Reprint)

Authors: Stan Burkey

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This down-to-earth book is aimed at Third World development staff involved in working with the rural poor and draws on the author's own field experience in Africa and Asia. The book is also relevant to non-field staff and, indeed, students of development generally, who want to understand what participatory development is, how it differs from the more conservative process of simply trying to involve people in already decided development projects, and the practicalities of how a non-government organisation (NGO) can go about its work without taking over and manipulating the local people.People First presents a coherent methodology for achieving development based on principles of…

Book details

List price: $42.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Zed Books, Limited
Publication date: 8/1/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Abbreviations


Preface


Introduction



Analysis



Understanding Poverty


Basic Needs and Poverty


What are the Causes of Poverty?


Analysing Poverty



What is Development?


Theories of Development


Recent Trends in Development Thinking


Development from Below - People First



Self-Reliant Participatory Development


What is a Community?


Social and Cultural Change


What is Self-Reliance?


What do We Mean by Participation?


Participatory Development and the Time Factor



Action



Agents of Change


What Part can Development Agencies Play?


What is a Change Agent?


The Role


Formal Qualifications


The Staying Power of Change Agents



The Training and Support of Change Agents


Participatory Training


Follow-up and Support


Organisation and Leadership



Getting Started


Preparatory Studies


Planning and Proposals


Programme Monitoring



Working with People


The Dialogical Method


What is an Interest Group?


How Groups are Formed


Group Activities


Common Causes of Failure


Summing Up



External Relationships: Inside Looking Out


Local Elites and the Power Structure


Government Officials


Combining with Other Groups


Dilemmas of Participatory Development



Savings, Credit and Inputs: Essential Components


Factors of Production


External Credit


Donations and Matching Grants


Introducing New Technologies



Reflection



Objectives and Principles of Self-Reliant Participatory Development


The Objectives


Basic Principles



Two Steps Forward, One Step Back


Two Steps Forward


One Step Back...


Stepping Out


Appendix: Questions for Discussion


References


Index