Development and Management: Experiences in Value-Based Conflict(Development in Practice Reader)

Development is not merely a question of project-based interventions, or of quantifiable inputs and outputs, but rather is a complex process of negotiation over meanings, values, and social goals within the sphere of public action. This collection includes in-depth accounts by academics and development managers that range from civil society organisations in Brazil to NGO workers in Egypt, government departments in Tanzania and Poland, donor agencies in Bangladesh, and black feminist activists in the United Kingdom.

Table of Contents:
* Contributors * Preface * Introductory essay Development management and the aid chain: the case of NGO's Tina Wallace * What makes good development management? Alan Thomas * Tools for project development within a public action framework David Wield * Institutional sustainability as learning Hazel Johnson and Gordon Wilson Managing institutional change: the science and technology systems of Eastern Europe and East Africa Jo Chataway and Tom Hewitt * Inclusive planning and allocation for rural services Doug Porter and Martin Onyach-Olaa * Finding out rapidly: a soft systems approach to training needs analysis in Thailand Simon Bell * Matching services with local preferences: managing primary education services in a rural district of India Ramya Subrahmanian * The development management task and reform of 'public' social services Dorcas Robinson * An endogenous empowerment strategy: a case study of Nigerian women; P.Kassey Garba * Fundraising in Brazil: the major implications for civil society organisations and international NGO's Michael Bailey * Routes of funding, roots of trust?; Northern NGO's, Southern NGO's, donors, and the rise of direct funding David Lewis and Babar Sobhan * Relevance in the 21st century: the case for devolution and global association of international of NGO's Alan Fowler * Northern words, Southern readings Carmen Marcuello and Chaime Marcuello * Whose terms?; Observations on 'development management' in an English city Richard Pinder * Information Technology and the management of corruption Richard Heeks * Petty corruption and development Stephen P. Riley * The need for reliable systems: genedered work in Oxfam's Uganda programme Lina Payne and Ines Smyth * Domestic violence, deportation, and women's resistance: notes on managing inter-sectionality Purna Sen * A day in the life of a development manager David Crawford, Michael Mambo, Zainab Mdimi, Harriet Mkilya, Anna Mwambuzi, Matthias Mwiko, and Sekiete Sekasua, with Dorcas Robinson * Funding preventive or curative care? The Assiut Burns Project Norma Burnett * Small enterprise opportunities in municiple solid waste management John P.Grierson and Ato Brown * An innovative community-based waste disposal scheme in Hyderbad Marielle Snel * Annotated Bibliography * Addresses of publishers and other organisations

About the Author :
Tina Wallace has worked in development, as an academic, practitioner and activist for over 35 years and has conducted reviews with the major NGOs including Oxfam, ActionAid, WaterAid, Amnesty International, as well as IIED and the UK's Department for International Development.

Review :
Among the contributors there is a good balance between practically orientated academics and reflective practitioners. The book is honest about problems, and provides the raw materials for their resolution without the reader feeling that the book is peddling pet solutions. It meets a real need and should be of interest to students, thoughtful practitioners and scholars alike. 'Public Administration and Development', No. 21, 2001.