Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 663 g
The Human Basis for Sustainable Development
Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 663 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-538316-4
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
Development and poverty reduction programs have been an integral component of the international development scene for the past few decades. Such discussions often focus on economic development, and the potential contextual or structural factors that could enhance national or community development.
Proposes a tested development framework and a step by step implementation strategy. The process is encapsulated in the Framework for Enabling Empowerment (FrEE) and the strategy, "Programming for Choice," as a means of making the widely-cited Capability Approach (initially proposed by Nobel Prize Laureate Amartya Sen) operational from a human perspective. It provides a unique strategy and psychosocial framework from which Sen's approach can be operationalized. This book provides a unique mix of practical strategies that are also grounded in the academic literature.
Pick and Sirkin show how IMIFAP, a Mexican NGO, has employed a development strategy to encourage the establishment of a participatory, healthy and educated citizenry. The program strategy is grounded in Amartya Sen's approach to sustainable development through expanding individual's capabilities and freedoms.
It presents the Framework for Enabling Empowerment (FrEE) and the step by step strategy "Programming for Choice," based on the practical experience and evaluation of IMIFAP's programs. The end goal is to achieve sustainable community and individual development that can be expanded across a variety of life domains (social, economic, political, education, health and psychological).
The book shows how community development can be enhanced if people are enabled to make accountable choices and expand their alternatives. International development efforts will not be sustainable if we continue to build schools without quality teachers; health clinics without enhancing logistical and psychological access and improving quality of care; and laws that are not enforced. Institutions will only flourish if their leaders and bureaucrats enhance their personal capabilities. The central premise of the book is that enhancing skills, knowledge and reducing psychological and contextual barriers to change are central (and often neglected) aspects of sustainable development.
IMIFAP was founded in 1984. Through ist health promotion and poverty reduction work it has reached over 19 million people in 14 countries through over 40 different programs and over 280 educational materials with support from over 300 funding agencies and government and private institutions. Ist mission is to enable society's poor and vulnerable to take charge of their lives through helping them develop their potential. We have found that through the IMIFAP "I want to, I can" programs people take the control of their lives in their own hands. Examples of these results are presented including numerous testimonies.
Zielgruppe
A general educated audience with a college degree interested in development, politics, poverty reduction, the application of psychology to development; last year undergradute and graduate students and teachers of political science, social psychology, behavioral economics, social and human development groups, policy development specialists.
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Fachgebiete
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Internationale Zusammenarbeit (Recht, Kultur, Umwelt etc.)
