(added singkong as topic expert) |
(==Community participation in development== - make a start) |
||
| Line 6: | Line 6: | ||
Another issue is red-green color blindness, though this mainly affects men, whereas women are the ones who most often collect water. | Another issue is red-green color blindness, though this mainly affects men, whereas women are the ones who most often collect water. | ||
==Community participation in development== | |||
In recent years development work has shifted from a top-down approach to a bottom-up approach. While sometimes this is rhetoric, there is also a recognition that participation (and preferably initiation) by the community is essential to an effective project. | |||
This approach is more costly and time-consuming, but is also more cost-effective as it gives much better and longer-lasting results. | |||
See: | |||
*[[Wikipedia:Participation (decision making)]] | |||
*[[Wikipedia:Orangi Pilot Project]] | |||
*[http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/sourcebook/sbhome.htm The World Bank Participation Sourcebook] | |||
==Footnotes and references== | ==Footnotes and references== | ||
Revision as of 17:06, 29 October 2006
Example: Color and meaning in Bangladesh
When some organizations identified wells in Bangladesh as contaminated with arsenic, they were marked - red dots for bad wells and green dots for good wells. However there are behavioral barriers: people don't like unfamiliar wells; they can't see the effects of arsenic immediately; and people without experience of traffic lights may not know that red is bad and green is good.[1] In fact, Bangladeshis like the color red more than green.[2]
Blogger (and law professor) Eugene Volokh writes:
- Not that this means you shouldn't do anything -- on the facts reported in this article, it seems pretty clear that it's better to have today's arsenic problem than yesterday's cholera problem (but then again, the article doesn't give enough information to say that for sure). All I draw from the article is that public health and development planners -- and any policymaker -- should have a sense of humility about the solutions they propose.[1]
Another issue is red-green color blindness, though this mainly affects men, whereas women are the ones who most often collect water.
Community participation in development
In recent years development work has shifted from a top-down approach to a bottom-up approach. While sometimes this is rhetoric, there is also a recognition that participation (and preferably initiation) by the community is essential to an effective project.
This approach is more costly and time-consuming, but is also more cost-effective as it gives much better and longer-lasting results.
See:
- Wikipedia:Participation (decision making)
- Wikipedia:Orangi Pilot Project
- The World Bank Participation Sourcebook
Footnotes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Volokh Conspiracy (archive) by Eugene Volokh (Law Professor at UCLA). The comments are based on an article written in German, in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
- ↑ Statement made in talk by Peter Kelly of AusAID to an Engineers Without Borders (NSW) meeting, October 11 2006
See also
- Orangi Pilot Project on Wikipedia.
External links
- RDI Cambodia's Studio Projects Using methods such as storytelling and karaoke to spread information.
- No Average Days - a blog about teaching reproductive health and gender in rural Bangladesh, with many observations on culture.
- Equity for a Small Planet - links to audio of Arif Hasan of the Orangi Pilot Project, Pakistan, talking about the disparity between local governance and the way people live, using the city of Karachi as an example. Listen (RealAudio, streaming)
Blogs
- No Average Days - Teaching reproductive health and gender in rural Bangladesh.
- Pyjama Samsara - Relief/development/latrines in post-tsunami Nias, Indonesia.
Pages in category "Culture and development"
The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.