عنوان

A critique of participatory development in Pakistan

شماره

TLets440217

عنوان اصلي

A critique of participatory development in Pakistan

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Ali, Johar

نام ساير پديدآوران

Johnson, Mark ; Clisby, Suzanne

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of Hull

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2005

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Thesis (Ph.D.)

امتياز متن

2005

متن يادداشت

This study, a critical analysis of participatory development, was empirically conducted within a participatory development NGO in Pakistan, namely the Sarhad Rural Support Programme (SRSP). It critically analysed participatory development in relation to micro and macro level forces, such as government, bilateral and multilateral donors and local power structures. The study found the ideal of participatory development to be infeasible. The government undermined participatory development by controlling and co-opting the SRSP, which is a government initiated NGO, to perform its dictated functions. The government arranged funds for its activities from its own established fund, backed by bilateral and multilateral donors, namely, Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund. Donor agencies impeded participatory development by requiring the SRSP to attain a pre-determined target in a given time. Donors' restrictions prompted the SRSP to follow the quantitative target by sacrificing its documented and idealized participatory development theory. Furthermore, at the micro level, the local power structure not only hijacked the SRSP's activities but also discouraged women and poor men from representing their actual needs. Hence, all these macro and micro-level forces, instead of adopting facilitative structural changes, reinforced each other and co-opted the SRSP for their own inherent objectives. The SRSP's position, constrained by the macro level forces in particular, made it a 'subcontractor' carrying out its activities without following the required process of structural transformation. Furthermore, the study found that participatory development has lost its critical edge over the earlier development theories as a result of by being co-opted by the modernization theories at the theoretical level, and by donors, states and local power structures at the practical level. This co-option, under the neo-liberal agenda, at both levels, reduced it to little more than fashionable lip service.

موضوع مستند نشده

Sociology

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Ali, Johar

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Johnson, Mark ; Clisby, Suzanne

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

University of Hull

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y