Sustainable Community Development: Dilemma of Options in Kenya [[electronic resource] /] / by Fuchaka Waswa, Christine Ruth Saru Kilalo, Dominic Mwambi Mwasaru |
Autore | Waswa Fuchaka |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (183 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 307.14096762 |
Collana | Palgrave Pivot |
Soggetto topico |
Africa-History
Ethnology-Africa Sociology, Urban History, Modern African History African Culture Sociology, general Urban Studies/Sociology Modern History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-349-50508-0
1-137-49741-6 |
Classificazione | QY 300 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Background -- 1.2 Africa's development irony -- 1.3 Poverty: from an international to a local understanding -- 1.4 Reflection questions -- 2 Development Approaches and Competing Paradigms -- 2.1 Historical perspective of main development paradigms -- 2.2 Development paradigms in the context of Kenyan history -- 2.3 Competing development approaches in Kenya -- 2.4 Participatory approach and people-centred development -- 2.5 Competing paradigms of social change -- 2.6 A social movement as the way forward -- 2.7 Reflection questions -- 3 Entry Points for Sustainable Community Development -- 3.1 Characterization of a sustainable community -- 3.2 Community institutional and leadership development -- 3.3 Community assets and resource mobilization -- 3.4 Community-Based Health Care (CBHC) -- 3.5 Emerging issues in CBHC -- 3.6 Gender and CBHC -- 3.7 Community food security and sustainable agriculture -- 3.8 Dealing with water scarcity in dryland ecosystems -- 3.9 Alternative income generation -- 3.10 Environmental dimension to community development -- 3.11 Reflection questions -- 4 Roles of Strategic Stakeholders -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Initiating and working through partnerships -- 4.3 Phasing-in and phasing-out -- 4.4 Reflection questions -- 5 Creating an Enabling Environment -- 5.1 Governance -- 5.2 Characteristics of good governance -- 5.3 The change formula -- 5.4 Reflection questions -- 6 Back to the Basics -- 6.1 Dilemma of options for community development -- 6.2 Learning from the "poor" -- 6.3 Reflection questions -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910672475203321 |
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