Local Partnership For Sustainable Rural Livelihood: Case Studies From West Africa

The shift to participatory development has been a long time coming and seems to be gathering momentum in contemporary development practices. Contemporary development programs of many donor agencies, as well as developing countries' efforts, such as community-driven development programs initiated by the World Bank and adopted by other multilateral development banks and the mandatory Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP), have all seen a significant shift towards participatory development processes. A key part of this shift is to enhance diversity and accommodate the 'voices from below' rather than just the top-down and the technocratically led development. The question raised here is to what extent do contemporary interventions intersect with the fundamental preconditions of a bottom-up process that will bring about sustainable rural livelihoods? This book emanates from the author's doctoral thesis which examined local partnerships born out of a need at the local level to engage partners to jointly further their development efforts. His interest in local partnership is focused on how new alliances are facilitated; ways of understanding and reacting to problems; the sharing of risks and responsibilities in a changing and unpredictable development environment, and emphasis on lateral, local, inter-organisational for sustainable livelihoods' development.

• | Author: Sullay Kamara
• | Publisher: Independently Published
• | Publication Date: May 04, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 266 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1096877864
• | ISBN-13: 9781096877868