Geographers and ‘logical’ development practice: the smallholder market access and food supply programme in Papua New Guinea

Crittenden, Robert; Lea, David A. M.

doi:10.1016/0143-6228(92)90025-i

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“…But in attempting to apply more comprehensive and detailed controls, planners often generated new con¯icts and problems. 45 Control-orientated planning, or`management science' as Crittenden & Lea label it, 46 is re¯ected in the use of log-frame analysis, cost±bene® t analysis, elaborate activity/project cycles and more recently, gender analysis frameworks. All these management tools attempt to exert greater control over project outcomes, for it is assumed that, once all the components of the project environment are known and controlled, the desired outcome will result.…”

Section: The Privileging and Power Of The Practice Of Integrationmentioning

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Women in development: A critical analysis

Koczberski¹

1998

Third World Quarterly

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In the early 1970s a general disenchantment with development efforts in Third World countries led to a search for alternative development strategies and a growing awareness that women, like the poor, were peripheral to the development efforts of major aid donors. In 1972 the United Nations designated 1975 as International Women' s Year, highlighting the need to involve women in issues of economic development. During the past 20 years the`women in development' approach, which seeks to recognise and integrate women in aid policies and programmes, has been incorporated into the aid practice of most development agencies. This paper traces the efforts of large aid agencies over the past two decades to integrate women into their aid programmes and discusses the main limitations and weaknesses of the W ID approach.Many studies of Third World women in the 1990s indicate that their impoverishment is growing, their work burdens expanding and their status relative to men declining. 1 Given the optimism of development agencies in the 1970s that a focus on women in their aid programmes would automatically improve their lives, it is pertinent to ask why so little has been achieved. It is recognised that such a question encompasses a broad and complex set of factors that cannot be addressed adequately in a single piece of work. This paper, therefore, narrows the search for possible explanations by examining some of the major aid agencies' efforts to incorporate women into their aid programmes over the past 20 years. These efforts to integrate women into their development plans are generally known as part of the`women in development' (WID) approach.The paper begins with a brief overview of the emergence of WID in the 1970s and then considers some of the main problems with this approach. It is argued that WID' s attempt to integrate women is based on certain assumptions and arguments that have limited its scope and success. Third World women have been presented in a particular way, with their problems and needs identi® ed by W ID`experts' , and their control over the development process ® rmly restricted. While WID may offer a different approach to`doing' and`viewing' development, it is not an alternative approach to mainstream development, as its concepts, strategies and perspectives on development remain welded to the existing Western-dominated development framework.

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Women in development: A critical analysis

Koczberski¹

1998

Third World Quarterly

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“…The above diagram was built on the assumption that contemporary donor aid was mediated through "indicatorism" This assumption is well supported by prior work discussed in Chapter I (Holvoet & Renard 2003;Crittenden & Lea 1992;Holvoet & Inberg 2009;Holvoet & Rombouts 2008). Thus, this research sought to address the question: how was contemporary donor aid to developing countries mediated by possible "indicatorism"?…”

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confidence: 95%