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Challenging capacity building : comparative perspectives rethinking international development

Kenny, Sue and Clarke, Matthew 2010, Challenging capacity building : comparative perspectives rethinking international development Palgrave Macmillan, New York, N.Y..

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Title Challenging capacity building : comparative perspectives rethinking international development
Author(s) Kenny, Sue
Clarke, Matthew
Editor(s) Kenny, Susan
Clarke, Matthew
Publication date 2010
Series Rethinking international development series
Total pages xi, 269 p.
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Place of Publication New York, N.Y.
Keyword(s) community development
infrastructure (economics)
sustainable development
Summary The focus of most capacity building programs is poor and disadvantaged communities. However, the appropriateness of capacity building for these groups, whether located in "developing" or "developed" countries, is always presented as self-evident. In much of the discussion of "how to" build capacity, critical questions regarding the determination of whose capacities are to be built, the methods by which capacity will be built and the consequences for wider relationships of those whose capacity is being built (and presumably for those whose capacity is being left to be built at another time!) are not investigated. A deeper understanding of the meaning, practice and potential of capacity building is required. This book challenges capacity building by critically interrogating its central ideas and practices. But it also considers the ways in which capacity building itself can challenge disadvantage and inequality, by offering a self-determining way forward for communities.
ISBN 9780230233232
0230233236
Language eng
Field of Research 160607 International Relations
Socio Economic Objective 940399 International Relations not elsewhere classified
HERDC Research category A7 Edited book
ERA Research output type X Not reportable
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30031124

Document type: Book
Collection: School of International and Political Studies
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