This chapter delineates the evolution of two contested, closely related concepts in development ethics – empowerment and participatory development. While empowerment originated in radical feminist ...

In April 2015, Maji Safi Group received word from district health officials of 30 confirmed cases of cholera in the Rorya District in northern Tanzania, where our organization operates. Though cholera ...

The World Bank has repeatedly acknowledged the importance of participation, good governance, and accountability for development. As both human rights and development experts have noted, respect for ...

Business entities across the world are primarily profit driven. In many cases, they struggle merely to break even amid challenging economic conditions. Yet, beyond profitability lies a broader ...

Africa needs to take control over its own development strategy through a participatory and coordinated approach that involves a more effective mobilization and use of domestic financial and ...

Meaningful child participation in medical research is seen as important. In order to facilitate further development of participatory research, we performed a systematic literature study to describe ...

As expressed in the community development global guidelines, community development is intended to fashion conditions of economic and social growth for the entire community with its dynamic involvement ...

Development in Practice offers practice-based analysis and research concerning the social dimensions of development and humanitarianism, and provides a worldwide forum for debate and the exchange of ...

Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 35, No. 1 (Feb 2015), pp. 16-26 (11 pages) In the tropical Andes, uncontrolled urban growth and the loss of agricultural land severely affect periurban ...

There is great potential to take a bottom-up approach to development planning in the drylands that includes the knowledge, input, and support of dryland communities. To date, pastoralists have had ...

Our comprehensive five-day training will enable you to improve your monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems / processes, using participatory and adaptive practice. Using complexity-aware, ...