Long-Term Solutions for a Short-Term World

Canada and Research Development
Herausgeber: Harpelle, Ronald N; Muirhead, Bruce

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Produktbeschreibung

Long-Term Solutions for a Short-Term World demonstrates the complexity of the challenges that poor countries face and introduces the readers to the concept and impact of participatory research for development. Participatory research requires researchers to work with communities, governments, and other relevant actors to deal with common problems. Finding solutions requires participants to reflect critically on the cultural, economic, historical, political, and social contexts within which the issue under investigation exists. The book contains a collection of essays from development researchers and professionals, each of whom is an activist who has made significant contributions to the struggles of the poor in their own societies. Essays are presented as case studies and, in each, the contributor explains the specific development problem, the paths followed to solve the problem, lessons learned as a result of the research, and the development challenges on the horizon in his field of research. Together, these essays present a fascinating picture of how some of today's most pressing development issues are being dealt with through research, demonstrating how interdisciplinary and alternative approaches can be implemented in new and innovative ways.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781554582235
• ISBN-10: 1554582237
• Artikelnr.: 28886672

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents for
Long-Term Solutions for a Short-Term World: Canada and Research Development
, edited by Ronald L. Harpelle and Bruce Muirhead
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The International Development Research Centre and Ressearch
for Development
Chapter One: The Underpinnings of Canadian Development Assistance Ronald
Harpelle
Chapter Two: IRDC: Forty Years of Research for Development Bruce Muirhead
Chapter Three: Development Dharma and International Co-operation in a
Changing World Dipak Gyawali
Chapter Four: The Rebirth of the Argan Tree or, How to Stop the Desert
While Giving a Future to Amazigh Women in Morocco Zoubida Charrouf and
Dominique Guillaume
Chapter Five: Under Fire: Doing Research in Warlike Conditions Rita
Giacaman, Yoke Rabaia, and Viet Nguyen-Gillham
Chapter Six: Informal Waste Recycling and the Landfill in Dakar Oumar
Cissé
Chapter Seven: Digital Technologies and Learning: Their Role in Enhancing
Social and Economic Development Clotilde Fonseca
Chapter Eight: Past, Present, and Future of Biological Control of Malaria
with the Community Participation in Peru Palmira Ventillosa
Chapter Nine: Participatory Research on Information and Communication
Technologies for Development and the Logic of the Network Approach
Heloise Emdon
Chapter Ten: The Role of Private Academic Centres and Foreign Aid in
Developing Social Sciences during Military Dictatorship Diego Piñiero
Conclusion: Long-Term Solutions
General Bibliography
Contributors
Index
Contributors' Bios
Zoubida Charouff is a professor at the Mohammed V University in Rabat,
Morocco. Her interest lies in the phytochemistry of Moroccan medicinal
plants and the evaluation of their chemical components in nutrition and
cosmetics. A woman of action and conviction, she has contributed to the
betterment of rural women's lives through money-making schemes using
medicinal plants, through literacy, training (in management, marketing, and
communication) and through the protection of the environment. Zoubida
Charrouf was behind the first argan oil co-operatives in Morocco, which now
employ more than 2500 women who form task groups to collect and begin the
process of argan oil production, followed by extraction of the oil, and an
economic interest group (GIE) Targanine that is concerned with the
marketing of the products. She has been active in obtaining geographical
guidelines for argan oil as there are many false claims both inside and
outside Morocco. She is the author of over a hundred publications and
articles on argan oil.
Oumar Cissé is a civil engineer who holds a master's degree in
environmental studies and a PhD in urban planning and environment from the
Université de Montréal. Since 1997 he has served as Executive Secretary of
the African Institute for Urban Management (IAGU). His previous positions
include a stint as municipal engineer and environmentalist at the Urban
Community of Dakar, where he founded the subdirectorate of the environment
in 1992. He is a researcher in urban environments, specializing on issues
of urban waste, and has trained African professionals in urban areas as a
lecturer at the Institute of Urban Planning at the University of Montreal
since 2000 and associate professor at the international French-language
Senghor University in Alexandria, Egypt, since April 2007. Dr. Cissé has
acted as an international consultant (UNDP, CIDA, UN HABITAT) and authored
several articles and international communications in urban environment. He
has also served as president of the Network of African Institutions Urban
Management (ANUMI) since 2003 and was coordinator of the Regional Centre of
the Basel Convention on hazardous waste in French-speaking Africa from 2004
to 2006. The main areas of intervention are municipal waste, environmental
planning, public-private partnership in urban services, urban agriculture,
and international co-operation in urban areas. Dr. Cissé is the main
initiator and coordinator of the "Discharge Mbeubeuss: Analysis of Impact
and Development of Channels of Waste and Urban Agriculture to Diamalaye
(Malika)" project funded by IDRC under its Urban Poverty and Environment
initiative (PURE).
Heloise Emdon leads Acacia, an International Development Research Centre
program that works with African partners to apply information and
communication technologies to Africa's social and economic development.
Before joining IDRC, Ms. Emdon was a communications sector analyst for the
Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA). At the bank, she worked on
telecom and broadcast investment projects and operational policy as well as
other ICT-related projects in Southern Africa. She also led, for the DBSA,
a development-oriented community radio pilot project in a remote peri-urban
and rural South African community. Ms. Emdon also has ten years of
experience as a journalist for the print press, as well as experience with
a news agency.
Clotilde Fonseca is the director and founder of the Programa de Informática
Educativa de Costa Rica. The program was created in 1988 by the Fundación
Omar Dengo and the Ministry of Public Education. She was also the executive
director of the Fundación Omar Dengo from its founding in 1987 until 1994
and from 1996 to the present. She was also the president of Instituto de
Asistencia Social de Costa Rica (1994-95). Clotilde Fonseca is a member of
the Consejo Consultivo del Ministro de Ciencia y Tecnología (2000-1) and
the Proyecto del Estado de la Nación (2001). She has also served as a
consultant to numerous international agencies and was a professor at the
Universidad de Costa Rica. Clotilde Fonseca is the author of Computadoras
en las escuelas de Costa Rica and the author of several articles.
Rita Giacaman is a professor of public health at the Institute of Community
and Public Health, Birzeit University, occupied Palestinian territory. She
is a founding member of the institute and has worked there for 31 years.
During the 1980s, she participated as a researcher and practitioner in the
Palestinian social action movement, which led to the development of the
Palestinian primary health care model. During the 1990s, she participated
in building the Palestinian community-based disability rehabilitation
network. Since 2000, Rita has been focusing on understanding the impact of
chronic warlike conditions and excessive exposure to violence on the health
and well-being of Palestinians, with an emphasis on psychosocial health;
and ways in which interventions could generate the needed active and
positive resilience and resistance to ongoing warlike conditions,
especially among youth. She has published extensively, including articles
in scientific journals, chapters in books published internationally, as
well as several volumes and reports published locally.
Dominique Guillaume is a professor of medicinal chemistry at the University
of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (France). He is an expert in natural product
chemistry and has been working with Professor Z. Charrouf (University
Mohammed V-Agdal, Morocco) on the argan tree since 1995. Dominique
Guillaume's initial work on argan tree secondary metabolites focused on the
search for biologically active molecules, but he rapidly oriented his
activity toward argan oil. His work has led to the design of analytical
methods of ascertaining argan oil purity and quality. These methods have
been implemented in the argan oil women's co-operatives and have
undoubtedly permitted the commercial success of argan oil. Dominique
Guillaume has authored or co-authored more than 100 scientific papers, is a
regular reviewer for several scientific journals, and is consultant to two
start-up companies working in the therapeutic and nutrition field.
Dipak Gyawali is a member of the Royal Nepal Academy of Science and
Technology. By profession he is a hydroelectric power engineer (Kafedra
Gidroenergetiki, Moskovski Energeticheski Institut, USSR,1979) as well as a
resource economist (Energy and Resources Group, University of California,
Berkeley, 1986) specializing in water and energy issues. For the past two
decades he has been an independent researcher and consultant on development
issues and has been pursuing his own interdisciplinary research agenda on
society-technology-resource-base interface. After the democratic changes in
Nepal in 1990, he was called by the new government to help define a new
energy development policy in the changed context in Nepal. He is currently
a director of Nepal Water Conservation Foundation and the editor of its
journal Water Nepal, as well as a member of the Oxford Commission on
Sustainable Consumption.
Ronald Harpelle is a professor of history at Lakehead University, where he
is also the co-director of the Advanced Institute for Globalization and
Culture. His association with IDRC dates from 1998, when he was awarded a
Canada and the World grant to undertake a study of the West Indian
community of Central America. With Bruce Muirhead, he authored a
commissioned history of IDRC.
Bruce Muirhead is a professor of history and the associate dean of graduate
studies and research in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Waterloo
and senior fellow at CIGI. He is the co-author of a history of the
International Development Research Centre and has undertaken the writing of
a history of Canadian official development assistance policy from 1945 to
1984 with a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
He continues to work on the topic of the development of Canadian foreign
economic policy in the 1960s and 1970s.
Viet Nguyen-Gillham has a background in social work and psychotherapy. She
has a PhD from Boston University in sociology and social work and has
worked internationally in conflict areas (Thailand, Bosnia, Guinea/Sierra
Leone, East Timor, Palestine) in programs related to refugees, torture
victims, and social development. She is currently working as an independent
consultant and researcher in mental health and community development at the
Institute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University.
Diego Piñeiro is dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Universidad de la
República, in Uruguay. He has worked and published extensively in the area
of rural sociology. With a PhD in sociology, Piñeiro has received research
grants from several organizations, including CLACSO and the Ford
Foundation. Because he was a researcher in Uruguay during the military
dictatorship, Piñeiro's later work reflects the importance of supporting
research during times of repression.
Yoke Rabaia conducts research with the mental health unit of the Institute
of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University, in the occupied
Palestinian territory. She is also working on her PhD dissertation with the
VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Palmira Ventosilla is an expert on tropical disease vectors and for years
has toiled to control malaria by targeting the spread of the Anopheles
mosquito. With funding from IDRC, Ventosilla and her colleagues at the
Alexander von Humboldt Institute of Tropical Medicine in Lima have
developed a low-cost, environmentally friendly alternative to pesticides
through biological control of mosquito larvae. Through an educational
program using posters, comics, and games, the three major schools of
Salitral, the town where the program is based, are involved, and the whole
community has been reached; future plans include expansion to more towns,
schools, and ponds. Palmira Ventosilla also volunteers with the American
Society for Microbiology (ASM) project in Mozambique to evaluate the range
of microbiology capacity within Mozambique.