Capacity Building in Developing Countries

✍ Scribed by Valentine Udoh James

Year: 1998
Tongue: English
Leaves: 341
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The term "capacity building" refers to enabling the indigenous people of developing countries to carry out development processes successfully by empowering them through strengthened domestic institutions, provision of domestic markets, and improvement of local government efforts to sustain infrastructures, social institutions, and commercial institutions. Capacity building also involves the need to recognize indigenous interest groups, encourage local efforts, provide incentives for privatization, and coordinate local, regional, and international strategies to enhance productivity and wise use of natural and human resources. Most important, capacity building encourages a "bottom-up" or grassroots effort for sustainable development. The grassroots effort begins with the family unit. Capacity building addresses all areas of social, economic and health, and environmental processes through a holistic approach. The chapters of this book, written by experts in their fields, address these three areas of the developing societies.

✦ Table of Contents

Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 7
Tables and Figures......Page 11
Preface......Page 15
Acknowledgments......Page 17
1 Building the Capacities of Developing Nations through Empowerment......Page 21
2 Ethnicity in the Politics of a Nation......Page 33
3 The State and Interplay of Gender and Class on the Emergence of Women as Political Leaders in Developing Countries......Page 47
4 The Difficulty of Consensus Building in Developing Countries The African Dilemma......Page 67
5 Democratization and the Grass Roots The Case of the Jomoro District Assembly......Page 76
6 Economic Theory and the Growth Ethic......Page 99
7 A Reassessment of the Impact of Structural Adjustment in Ghana......Page 110
8 Pineapple Production Labor and Marketing Relations in the Periurban Economy of Accra Ghana......Page 119
9 Maintaining the African Wealth A Natural and Human Resource Sustainability Issue......Page 149
10 Modernizing Influences and Traditional Villages in Sarawak......Page 163
11 Exceptional Kerala Efficient and Sustainable Human Behavior......Page 172
12 Measuring Development Policy Organizational Effectiveness in Third World Countries......Page 195
13 Communications and Democratic Governance for Sustainable Development in Africa......Page 214
14 The Role of Indigenous Education in Development The Tanzanian Case......Page 226
15 The Role of Food Self Sufficiency in Sustainable Development in Africa in Readiness for the Twenty First Century......Page 236
16 Management Capacity Building A Strategic Imperative for African Development in the Twenty First Century......Page 248
17 Manpower Development in Nigeria A Research Note on the University......Page 272
18 Rural Population and Economic Development in Africa An Analysis of Some Policy Issues......Page 287
References......Page 307
Index......Page 327
About the Contributors......Page 339

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