Adventures in the Aid Trade: Forty Years Practising Development in Forty Countries

ISBN-13: 9780367434038 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 224 str.

Richard Holloway

Opis

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.

 

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.