Scaling Up Scaling Down: Overcoming Malnutrition in Developing Countries

ISBN-13: 9789057005473 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 322 str.

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Opis

The individual and institutional capacities required for the prevention and reduction of nutritional insecurity and hunger in lesser-developed countries as the twenty-first century approaches are identified in this book. Household nutritional "security" can be defined as the successful
The essays in this book champion the idea of increasing, or scaling up, grass roots operations to provide nutritional security, while scaling down the efforts of national and international institutions. Scaling up involves strengthening local capacities to improve and expand upon current successful programs by building upon existing local culture and organizations. This, in turn, enables the programs to strengthen relationships with national governments, international bilateral/multilateral donors, as well as non-governmental organizations. Scaling down concerns the ways and means by which these various organizations encourage and complement the local development. Therefore, as local capacities are scaled up, the national/international control over decisions and functions is, ideally, scaled down. The volume also directly addresses the resultant complication: how to create programs that are both culturally specific and that will flourish well into the future.

Recenzje

"Scaling Up, Scaling Down: Overcoming Malnutrition in Developing Countries is an interesting volume that addresses a question that most people working in economic and social development face today: how to foster programs specific to particular settings in a way that promotes sustainability beyond the project itself. The major strength of the book is the authors' attempt to treat both the issue of moving beyond the small, controlled setting of a pilot project to a much larger effort ('scaling up'), as well as the response which must be made from the central agencies to facilitate such expansion ('scaling down')."

O autorze

Thomas J. Marchione