Kritz Redefining Development

Resolving Complex Challenges in a Global Context
2. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-009-39485-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

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Reihe: Elements in Public and Nonprofit Administration

In 2015, Old Fadama, the largest informal community in Accra, was a government 'no-go zone.' Armed guards accompanied a participatory action research team and stakeholders as they began an empirical research project. Their goals: resolve wicked problems, advance collaboration theory, and provide direct services to vulnerable beneficiaries. In three years, they designed a collaboration intervention based on rigorous evidence, Ghana's culture and data from 300 core stakeholders. Sanitation policy change transformed the community, and government began to collaborate freely. By 2022, the intervention was replicated in Accra, Kumasi and eleven rural communities, providing health services to more than 10,000 kayayei (women head porters) and addressing complex challenges for 15,000 direct and hundreds of thousands of indirect beneficiaries. This collaboration intervention improved community participation, changed policy, and redefined development in theory and practice. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kritz, Jessica

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 1; 2. Why cross-sector collaboration? 8; 3. The Accra stakeholder platform: designing a cross-sector collaboration intervention 21; 4. Confronting development as usual: process and project results 40; 5. Network analysis: replicating the PAR intervention 54; 6. Conclusion; References.