Long-Term Solutions for a Short-Term World demonstrates the complexity of the challenges that poor countries face and introduces the readers to the concept and impact of participatory research for development. Participatory research requires researchers to work with communities, governments, and other relevant actors to deal with common problems. Finding solutions requires participants to reflect critically on the cultural, economic, historical, political, and social contexts within which the issue under investigation exists. The book contains a collection of essays from development researchers and professionals, each of whom is an activist who has made significant contributions to the struggles of the poor in their own societies. Essays are presented as case studies and, in each, the contributor explains the specific development problem, the paths followed to solve the problem, lessons learned as a result of the research, and the development challenges on the horizon in his field of research.
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- HALF-TITLE 2
- Title 5
- Copyright 6
- Contents 7
- Acknowledgements 9
- INTRODUCTION The International Development Research Centre and Research for Development 11
- CHAPTER ONE The Underpinnings of Canadian Development Assistance (Ronald Harpelle) 19
- Notes 42
- CHAPTER TWO IDRC: Forty Years of Research for Development (Bruce Muirhead) 45
- The Centre Takes Off 46
- Ivan Head Takes Over 48
- Keith Bezanson and the Renovation of the Centre 54
- A Return to Zen 58
- What of the Future? 62
- Notes 63
- CHAPTER THREE Development Dharma and International Co-operation in a Changing World (Dipak Gyawali) 67
- Missionary Calling 67
- Encountering Dismal Reality 71
- Not without Hope 77
- Rethinking Collaboration 81
- Notes 87
- CHAPTER FOUR The Rebirth of the Argan Tree or, How to Stop the Desert While Giving a Future to Amazigh Women in Morocco (Zoubida Charrouf and Dominique Guillaume) 89
- Background 89
- Introduction: The Argan Tree and the Argan Forest 90
- Initial Attempts: The Search for New Argan Tree Metabolites 93
- Argan Oil: From Family-Scale Production to Worldwide Distribution 94
- Argan Oil for the Family 94
- Argan Oil for Everyone 97
- The Women’s Co-operatives 98
- Argan Forest Rescue and Argan Oil Production: Two Works Still in Progress 101
- Notes 103
- CHAPTER FIVE Under Fire: Doing Research in Warlike Conditions (Rita Giacaman, Yoke Rabaia, and Viet Nguyen-Gillham) 105
- Historical and Contextual Overview 105
- Intervention Research in Warlike Conditions: From Research to Action 114
- Consultation with CBR Workers 119
- Consultation with International Experts 119
- Needs Assessments, Community Consultations, and Pilot Interventions 120
- Notes 124
- CHAPTER SIX Informal Waste Recycling and the Landfill in Dakar (Oumar Cissé) 127
- Development Problems Targeted by Research 127
- Those Who Play a Role in Waste Recovery 129
- The Mbeubeuss Landfill 130
- Research and Results 132
- Impact of Research on Women and Families 137
- The Involvement of Communities 138
- The Current Situation and Challenges 141
- Notes 142
- CHAPTER SEVEN Digital Technologies and Learning: Their Role in Enhancing Social and Economic Development (Clotilde Fonseca) 145
- Development as Opportunity and Capacity-Building 145
- The Poor as Bonsais 145
- Digital Technologies as Enablers 146
- The Development Problem 147
- Equity and Learning Opportunities 148
- New Approaches in Development Theory 149
- Youth, Learning, and Development Opportunities 150
- The Omar Dengo Foundation and Its Contribution to Costa Rica’s Development 151
- Impacts and Testimonies from the Field 151
- ODF: Its Origins, Purpose, and Development Theories 154
- From Educational Informatics to Entrepreneurship and Citizen Participation 158
- Lessons Learned from the Implementation of Lanz@ 160
- Results of the Implementation Process 162
- ODF’s Impact in Costa Rica’s Development 163
- Identification of Impact and Elements for Project Design 164
- New Directions: Where This Work Is Leading and Why 165
- The Role of “Angel Investors” in Stimulating Innovation and Social Change 167
- Notes 169
- CHAPTER EIGHT Past, Present, and Future of Biological Control of Malaria with Community Participation in Peru (Palmira Ventosilla) 171
- Background 171
- Malaria in the Peruvian Context 172
- Biological Control of Malaria 174
- Community Biological Control of Malaria Using Coconuts in the District of Salitral, Province of Sullana, Department Piura, Peru (1989–2002) 174
- 1. Sociological Studies 175
- 2. Biological Studies 175
- 3. Educational Proposal 176
- Results 178
- Phase 1: Social Studies and Raising Awareness (1992–93) 178
- Socioeconomic Characteristics 178
- (a) Community organization 178
- (b) Education 178
- (c) Labour organization 178
- (d) Health 178
- Phase 2: Intervention in Schools (1994–95) 180
- Phase 3: Intervention in the Community (July 1994–April 1996) 180
- Phase 4: Evaluation 181
- 1. Short-Term Evaluation (1993–95) 181
- 2. Medium-Term Evaluation (1998–2003) 181
- 3. Long-Term Evaluation (2003–4) 182
- Conclusion 182
- Notes 183
- CHAPTER NINE Participatory Research on Information and Communication Technologies for Development and the Logic of the Network Approach (Heloise Emdon) 185
- Introduction 185
- My Early Path: Exploring the Relationship between ICTs and Women’s Development 189
- New Opportunities for Enabling International Development Research on Policy and ICT Access and Use in Africa 190
- From Local to Global 191
- ICTs for Development in Context 193
- Women’s Stories 200
- Conclusion: Next Steps 202
- Notes 203
- CHAPTER TEN The Role of Private Academic Centres and Foreign Aid in Developing Social Sciences during Military Dictatorship (Diego E. Piñeiro) 205
- Notes 212
- CONCLUSION Long-Term Solutions 213
- General Bibliography 219
- Contributors 229
- Index 235
- BACK COVER 247
