Participatory Development in South Africa

According to the writer, Participatory Development – a Development Management Perspective, follows a holistic and inter-disciplinary approach in assessing development management principles and strategies. The authors represent a broad teaching and research background, which allow the book to functionally integrate some of the most important challenges regarding development management.

This book is aimed at students, practitioners, consultants, researchers and government, non governmental organisations, and community based organisation change agents.

Contents:

• Contextualising development
• Development management as an applied discipline
• Poverty in South Africa: a development management perspective
• The institutional role-players in development
• The strategic role of development NGO’s
• Development management in practice
• Development management and action research
• Guidelines for writing assignments and using basic research methodology.