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Introduction to Development Training Dani
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INTRODUCING
DEVELOPMENT
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Defining Development
Change for the better?
Development
Organizations
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What is the goal of development?
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Economic Growth?
"Growth in per capita income in less developed countries"
Is economic growth necessary and/or sufficient?
Dudley Seers (1969): to be developed, growth needs to be reducing poverty and unemployment as well as decreasing economic equality.
Poverty Reduction?
Should we be focusing on relative or absolute poverty?
How should we look at poverty? Purely economically?
- e.g. MDGs?
Or should we take a multi-dimensional approach?
- e.g. Basic Needs Approach
Freedom?
Amartya Sen introduced the 'capability approach' to development
He believed that economic growth was only a means to an end
What ultimately matters is people's freedom: they should do what they value have reason to value.
Happiness?
A move to sustainability
Sustainability
"Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." (IISD)
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Dimensions of Sustainability
Social equality
Bearable
Equitable
Environmental
Economic (self-sustaining)
Social (Addresses a particular
context / specific needs)
Sustainable
Economic Viability
Environmental
Protection
Viable
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Get out your project proposals!
Which SDGs is your project addressing and why?
Discuss in your teams
Key
Terms
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'Voluntourism'
'Third vs first world'
'Developed vs developing'
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Partnership
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Global Citizen
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Where does EGP stand in all this?
Where do we
fit in?
What makes us unique?
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Projects proposed by community
Support small-scale sustainable development
Work with the community to achieve their long term development goals
Ethics
Our Ethics
We only select projects that are proposed and supported by the host community
We only select projects with a clear sustainability plan
We aim to maintain our volunteers' environmental awareness
We respect the privacy of people living in the communities where projects are carried out
All the money volunteers raise goes directly towards the project
Discuss and report back
Project
Have a look through project proposals
What makes your project sustainable? Why is it not voluntourism? How does it reflect ideas of partnership?
Global citizen
Why should we care?
Global citizenship is the idea that all people have rights and civic responsibilities that come with being a member of the world, with whole-world philosophy and sensibilities, rather than as a citizen of a particular nation or place.
An important topic in a world that is polarizing between nationalism and globalism.
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" Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is the protection of a fundamental human right."
Mandela
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Further
Reading
Pieterse, J.N. 2000. ‘After post-development.’ Third world quarterly 21: 2. Pp.175-191.
Radhika, D. 2012. Theories of Development in Haslam et al. eds.
Introduction to International Development: Approaches, Actors and Issues. Oxford University Press: Oxford.