Demystifying Participatory Community Development

Description

This book is one of the efforts today in search of effective strategies for poverty alleviation in Africa in the spirit of Millenium Development Goals (MDGs). It seeks to blend the two worlds of the normative, scholarly perspectives on the one hand, and the practitioner’s empiricism on the other. The book discusses a hybrid of ideas, methods and tools which have been tested and includes dis-tinct methodological streams such as Development Education and Leader-ship Teams in Action (DELTA), Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (PME). Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) and Participatory Strategic Planning (PSP) among others. The book will be a useful guide, particularly in efforts to reinforce and strength-en the management of participatory development initiatives intended to em-power the poor and the powerless This book leaves no doubt about the fact that participatory development is a process of the people, and by the people, enabling them to become masters of their own destiny. It is suitable for both field practitioners as well as stu-dents in development studies. Project managers, programme officers and community workers in diverse settings within NGOs, CBOs, Faith-based de-velopment agencies and bilateral (government) funded projects will certainly find this book a gold mine.