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  • International Community Development Practice

    Edited by Charlie McConnell, Daniel Muia, Anna Clarke ...
    Series series Community Development Research and Practice Series
    International Community Development Practice provides readers with practice-based examples of good community development, demonstrating its value for strengthening people power and improving the effectiveness of development agencies, whether these be governmental, non-governmental or private sector. The chapters focus upon the making of the community development profession and the eight core ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Connectedness, Resilience and Empowerment

    Perspectives on Community Development

    Edited by Daniel Muia, Rhonda Phillips ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book discusses how aspects of connectedness, resilience and empowerment are intertwined in community development processes. It explicitly brings together these elements in the context of community development and well-being, helping foster an understanding of how each influences the other. With chapters contributed by scholars from around the globe, this volume provides insights into how ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • Community Development Theories

    Perspectives and Practices in Africa

    by Boniface Rufo, Judi Aubel, Mamadou Coulibaly, Bob Rhodes, Chris Brown, Nancy Biwott, John Cornwell, Emmanuel Tawiah Tetteh, Amelia Visagie, Bernie Dolley, Janine Ward, Judith Demeshane, Judith Mtsewu, Teresa Opperman, Elor Enoge, Lizzy Ihekerenma Ewumi, Bosco Juma, Dedi Mwita, Shamim Juma, Abdulkadir Inuwa Abdulkadir, Stellah Masese ...
    This book is grounded in Afrocentric community development theoretical framing and perspectives. It curates nuanced perspectives, experiences and case studies to anchor the discipline and practice in traditional worldviews, values, and knowledge systems that draw on ubuntu-based interconnectedness.Focusing on community-led frameworks, such as asset-based community development and culturally ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

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  • A New Synthesis of Public Administration

    Serving in the 21st Century

    by Jocelyne Bourgon ...
    Series Book 81 - Queen's Policy Studies Series
    In an increasingly interconnected environment, shocks, crises, cascading failures, and surprising breakthroughs are features of our age. The ability to anticipate, intervene, innovate, and adapt is now seen as essential for governments. Public officials serve in an expanded public space that is being reshaped by the rise of social networking and modern information and communication technologies. ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • The Art of Public Strategy

    Mobilizing Power and Knowledge for the Common Good

    by Geoff Mulgan ...
    The strategies adopted by governments and public officials can have dramatic effects on peoples' lives. The best ones can transform economic laggards into trailblazers, eliminate diseases, or sharply cut crime. Strategic failures can result in highly visible disasters, like the shrinking of the Russian economy in the 1990s, or the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005. This book is ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • The New Synthesis of Public Administration Fieldbook

    by Jocelyne Bourgon ...
    The New Synthesis (NS) brings together the role of government, people and society in a co-dependent and dynamic governing system. The purpose is to invent new solutions and build a better future - together. One thousand participants have been involved in some ways in the NS Initiativein the period between 2012-2015. One thousand journeys of discovery have been unfolding since. This second NS book ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Development Management

    Theory and practice

    Edited by Justice Nyigmah Bawole, Farhad Hossain, Asad K. Ghalib, Christopher J. Rees, Aminu Mamman ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    Despite significant financial investments, the rate of development and pace of poverty reduction in developing and transitional countries has not always matched expectations. Development management typically involves complex interactions between governmental and non-governmental organisations, donors and members of the public, and can be difficult to navigate.This volume brings together a group of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Gender at Work

    Theory and Practice for 21st Century Organizations

    by Aruna Rao, Joanne Sandler, David Kelleher, Carol Miller ...
    At a time when some corporate women leaders are advocating for their aspiring sisters to ‘lean in’ for a bigger piece of the existing pie, this book puts the spotlight on the deep structures of organizational culture that hold gender inequality in place. Gender at Work: Theory and Practice for 21st Century Organizations makes a compelling case that transforming the unspoken, informal institutional ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Non-Governmental Development Organizations and the Poverty Reduction Agenda

    The moral crusaders

    by Jonathan Makuwira ...
    Series series Global Institutions
    The Non-Governmental Development Organisations (NGDOs) have, over the past two decades, entered centre stage in their active participation in the social, political and economic issues affecting both the developing and developed world. This book offers a highly stimulating and concise summary of the NGDO sector by examining their history and metamorphosis; their influence on the social, political ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Knowledge, Policy and Power in International Development

    A Practical Guide

    by Harry Jones, Nicola A. Jones, Louise Shaxson, David Walker ...
    This book presents an academically rigorous yet practical guide to efforts to understand how knowledge, policy and power interact to promote or prevent change.It offers a power analysis perspective on the knowledge-policy process, illustrated with rich empirical examples from the field of international development, combined with practical guidance on the implications of such an approach. It ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Saving Democracy

    by Professor Gerry Stoker, Professor Mark Evans ...
    Democracy is in crisis. Is there still time to save it?Democracies face external threat from aggressive authoritarian states. Internally, citizens have grown increasingly distrustful of politicians and more cynical about national and global governance institutions. The time is ripe for democracy to renew itself. This text offers a state-of-the art overview of democratic innovations today, moving ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • NGO Management

    The Earthscan Companion

    Edited by Alan Fowler, Chiku Malunga ...
    The task environment of NGOs is changing rapidly and significantly, making new demands on their management and leadership. This Companion discusses the complexities involved. It illustrates how NGOs can maintain performance and remain agile amidst increasing uncertainties. These factors include the position of NGOs in civil society, their involvement in governance and coping with the effects of ... Read more

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