Indigenous Organizations and Development (It Studies in Indigenous Knowledge and Development Series) - Softcover

Blunt, Peter; Warren, D. Michael

 
9781853393211: Indigenous Organizations and Development (It Studies in Indigenous Knowledge and Development Series)

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Indigenous organizations are local-level institutions with a community base, such as women's groups, ethnic associations, traditional religious groups, and a wide variety of other social groups. This significant book investigates
local planning and management systems, local levels of technology use
and development, community-based systems of evaluation and capacity building, and distinct social roles of the varied groups which exist worldwide. Some chapters investigate the problems of imposition of new organizational structures on local communities, others look at the rhetoric of "empowerment" as against the reality of local decision-making. There is no other published collection which describes such a wide range of local organizations. It is of appeal to development workers as well as students and teachers of development studies, and of development management.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

From 2008 to November 2011, Peter Blunt held a senior (level GH) staff position with the World Bank in Jakarta, as programme manager of the multi-donor Decentralisation Support Facility that is supporting the government’s programme of decentralisation. He is a consultant specialising in governance and public sector management in developing countries. He is currently a Freelance consultant at Blunt and Associates P/L, Sydney, Australia.

Professor Dennis Michael Warren was an anthropologist and leading Africanist scholar who taught at Iowa State University from 1972 to1997. Professor Warren was especially interested in indigenous knowledge and rural development in Africa. His interest in indigenous knowledge led him to the study of art, culture, the rural economy and traditional healing in Ghana and Nigeria and to comparative studies of other societies.

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