Assessing Participatory Development: Rhetoric Versus Reality

by William P. Lineberry

Overview

This book was shaped by ten years of International Fund for Agricultural Development's experience on innovative approaches to people's participation in development. Its critical assessment of the participatory approach explains how it works, its benefits and the pitfalls it harbours for the unwary.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367013172
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/02/2019
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	5.88(w) x 8.88(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Foreword — Introduction — Participatory Development: The IFAD Experience — The Fate of Smallholders and Other Rural Poor in Africa During the Structural Adjustment Transition — The Economics of Investment in Rural Development: Private and Social Accounting Experiences from Latin America — Letting the Worm Turn: — Rural Women in Ghana: Their Workloads, Access and Organizations — The Enterprise Concept: A Comment on Innovations in Participatory Approaches to Development