People first : a guide to self-reliant participatory rural development /
People 1st
Stan Burkey.
- xix, 244 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-238) and index.
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. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. Pt. II. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Pt. III. 10. 11.