From clients to citizens : communities changing the course of their own development / edited by Alison Mathie and Gordon Cunningham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mathie, Alison.

Cunningham, Gordon, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community development--Case studies.

Community development.

Community leadership--Case studies.

Community leadership.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xxi, 378 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Warwickshire, UK : Practical Action Pub., 2008.

Summary:

Communities worldwide act on their own initiative, drawing on their own resources of leadership and solidarity, and in spite of poverty, to achieve their own goals. Development practitioners have too often viewed poor communities as helpless and disadvantaged, and have encouraged their dependency. Yet if instead communities are recognized as having social and cultural as well as material assets, and these are what help them to overcome obstacles, then their capacity to negotiate external assistance on their own terms can be strengthened.

From the Moroccan villages that secured irrigation infrastructure with the help of returning migrants, to the Egyptian youth leaders who wanted a soccer pitch for their village, and the indigenous women's cooperative in Ecuador that now exports medicinal plants, this book describes case studies of communities that first built on their own assets, before seeking assistance from outside. What are the common factors that help all these communities mobilize? Do outside organizations have a role to play when communities take charge of their own development?

From Clients to Citizens is aimed at community workers, researchers and policy makers who want to take a fresh look at community development.

Contents:

Section I Communities mobilizing assets and driving their own development 11

1 Possibilities for income-deprived but capability-rich communities in Egypt / Waad El Hadidy 13

2 God created the world and we created Conjunto Palmeira: four decades of forging community and building a local economy in Brazil / Rogerio Arns Neumann, Alison Mathie, Assisted by Joanne Linzey 39

3 Building the Mercado Central: Asset Based Community Development and community entrepreneurship in the USA / Geralyn Sheehan 63

4 The Jambi Kiwa story: mobilizing assets for community development in Ecuador / Gordon Cunningham 85

5 When bamboo is old, the sprouts appear: rekindling local economies through traditional skills in Hanoi, Vietnam / Jim Delaney, Nguyen Duc Vinh 111

6 By their own hands: two hundred years of building community in St Andrews, Nova Scotia, Canada / Gordon Cunningham, Kate Fiander 137

7 The hardware and software of community development: migrant infrastructure projects in rural Morocco / Natasha Iskander, Nadia Bentaleb-Maes 161

8 A spreading banyan tree: the Self Employed Women's Association, India / Martha Chen 181

9 People's institutions as a vehicle for community development: a case study from Southern India / Alison Mathie 207

10 Jansenville Development Forum: linking community and government in the rural landscape of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa / Susan Wilkinson-Maposa 237

Section II ABCD in Ethiopia, Kenya and the Philippines 261

11 Stimulating Asset Based and Community Driven Development: lessons from five communities in Ethiopia / Gordon Cunningham 263

12 Reviving self-help: an NGO promotes Asset Based Community Development in two communities in Kenya / Alison Mathie 299

13 From DCBA to ABCD: the potential for strengthening citizen engagement with local government in Mindanao, the Philippines / Alison Mathie 325.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781853396731

1853396737

OCLC:

228374238