People first : a guide to self-reliant participatory rural development / Stan Burkey.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-238) and index.

Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Pt. I. Analysis -- 1. Understanding Poverty -- Basic Needs and Poverty -- What are the Causes of Poverty? -- Analysing Poverty -- 2. What is Development? -- Theories of Development -- Recent Trends in Development Thinking -- Development from Below - People First -- 3. 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 -- Pt. II. Action -- 4. Agents of Change -- What Part can Development Agencies Play? -- What is a Change Agent? -- The Role -- Formal Qualifications -- The Staying Power of Change Agents -- 5. The Training and Support of Change Agents -- Participatory Training -- Follow-up and Support -- Organisation and Leadership -- 6. Getting Started -- Preparatory Studies -- Planning and Proposals -- Programme Monitoring -- 7. Working with People -- The Dialogical Method -- What is an Interest Group? -- How Groups are Formed -- Group Activities -- Common Causes of Failure -- Summing Up -- 8. External Relationships: Inside Looking Out -- Local Elites and the Power Structure -- Government Officials -- Combining with Other Groups -- Dilemmas of Participatory Development -- 9. Savings, Credit and Inputs: Essential Components -- Factors of Production -- External Credit -- Donations and Matching Grants -- Introducing New Technologies -- Pt. III. Reflection -- 10. Objectives and Principles of Self-Reliant Participatory Development -- The Objectives -- Basic Principles -- 11. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back -- Two Steps Forward -- One Step Back. -- Stepping Out -- Appendix: Questions for Discussion -- References -- Index.

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