Richard Holloway

Adventures in the Aid Trade (eBook, PDF)

Forty Years Practising Development in Forty Countries

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book takes us on a journey through 40 years of work at the coal face of international development. Drawing on his experiences from long periods in the field, the author reflects on what has worked, what has not and why, and considers how these experiences relate to students and practitioners today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000039030
• Artikelnr.: 58645896

Autorenporträt

Richard Holloway is an international development professional with more than 40 years' experience managing social development projects and programmes in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the South Pacific. He has extensive experience of working with non-state and state actors to strengthen processes of citizen-state engagement, and over 20 years' experience of implementing and managing large donor-funded projects (USAID, DFID, UNDP, EU, World Bank). He is currently an independent consultant after many years as a long-term project manager. His notable books are Beyond NGOs: CSOs with Development Impact, Doing Development: Governments, CSOs and the Rural Poor in Asia and Towards Financial Self-Reliance: Handbook on Resource Mobilization for CSOs in the South.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Addis Ababa
Ethiopia and street children
1966-69: trying hard to keep a welfare institution going 2 Maun
Botswana
1970-72: making technical education pay for itself 3 South Sudan
1973-75: reconstructing the country in its one short period of peace 4 LSE and Patchwork Community
1970-76: keeping in touch with the UK 5 Dominica
West Indies
1976-78: demanding assistance from the State or the joys of self-help 6 South Pacific
1979-80: appropriate technology
ideologues and small gains 7 Java
Indonesia
1979-84: more AT ideologues and people's technology 8 The far east of Indonesia
1979-84: Oxfam
famine in East Timor and the amazing growth of Leucaena leucocephala in NTT 9 Positive deviance
1980-81 and 1984-85: nutrition in Indonesia and rice/fish farming in north-east Thailand 10 Bangladesh
1989-95: NGOs
CSOs
dependence on aid and independence from aid 11 Zambia
1995-99: moving into advocacy from service delivery 12 CSOs everywhere
1990 to the present: trying fundraising and resource mobilisation
not donor dependence 13 Indonesia
1999-2004: never again
neither Suharto nor his corruption 14 East Timor
2002-04: moving from relief and human rights to development and civil rights 15 Tajikistan
2005-10: persuading ex-apparatchiks that citizens can do good without the State 16 Different countries in Africa
2005-10: building integrity and CSO standards as an alternative to fighting corruption 17 Nepal
2010-13: the birth of social accountability
digging down into corruption and half-hearted efforts to control it 18 Myanmar
2015-16: watching a country become aid-dependent and doing nothing about corruption 19 East Africa
2018-19: social accountability neutered by corruption 20 Reflections: bringing it all together Index