Long-Term Solutions for a Short-Term World

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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. Together, these essays present a fascinating picture of how some of today’s most pressing development issues are being dealt with through research, demonstrating how interdisciplinary and alternative approaches can be implemented in new and innovative ways.

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• Publié par: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Date de parution: 14 juin 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781554583539
• Langue: English

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Wilfrid Laurier University Press acknowledges the financial support of the International DevelopmentResearch Centre for this publication. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government ofCanada through its Canada Book Fund for its publishing activities.
 
 
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
 
Long-term solutions for a short-term world: Canada and research development / Ronald N.Harpelle and Bruce Muirhead, editors.
 
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issued also in electronic format.
ISBN 978-1-55458-223-5
 
 
1. Economic development —— Research—Developing countries —— Case studies. 2. Economic assistance,Canadian—Developing countries. 3. Technical assistance, Canadian —— Developing countries. I. Harpelle,Ronald N., 1957— II. Muirhead, Bruce
 
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Electronic formats
ISBN 978-1-55458-241-9 (PDF), ISBN 978-1-55458-353-9 (EPUB)
 
1. Economic development —— Research —— Developing countries —— Case studies. 2. Economic assistance,Canadian —— Developing countries. 3. Technical assistance, Canadian —— Developing countries. I. Harpelle,Ronald N., 1957— II. Muirhead, Bruce
 
 
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© 2011  Wilfrid Laurier University Press
 
Cover design by Sandra Friesen. Cover photograph by Bruce Muirhead. Text design by Daiva Villa, ChrisRowat Design.
 
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Contents
Cover
HALF-TITLE
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
INTRODUCTION The International Development Research Centre and Research for Development
CHAPTER ONE The Underpinnings of Canadian Development Assistance (Ronald Harpelle)
Notes
CHAPTER TWO IDRC: Forty Years of Research for Development (Bruce Muirhead)
The Centre Takes Off
Ivan Head Takes Over
Keith Bezanson and the Renovation of the Centre
A Return to Zen
What of the Future?
Notes
CHAPTER THREE Development Dharma and International Co-operation in a Changing World (Dipak Gyawali)
Missionary Calling
Encountering Dismal Reality
Not without Hope
Rethinking Collaboration
Notes
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)
Background
Introduction: The Argan Tree and the Argan Forest
Initial Attempts: The Search for New Argan Tree Metabolites
Argan Oil: From Family-Scale Production to Worldwide Distribution
Argan Oil for the Family
Argan Oil for Everyone
The Women’s Co-operatives
Argan Forest Rescue and Argan Oil Production: Two Works Still in Progress
Notes
CHAPTER FIVE Under Fire: Doing Research in Warlike Conditions (Rita Giacaman, Yoke Rabaia, and Viet Nguyen-Gillham)
Historical and Contextual Overview
Intervention Research in Warlike Conditions: From Research to Action
Consultation with CBR Workers
Consultation with International Experts
Needs Assessments, Community Consultations, and Pilot Interventions
Notes
CHAPTER SIX Informal Waste Recycling and the Landfill in Dakar (Oumar Cissé)
Development Problems Targeted by Research
Those Who Play a Role in Waste Recovery
The Mbeubeuss Landfill
Research and Results
Impact of Research on Women and Families
The Involvement of Communities
The Current Situation and Challenges
Notes
CHAPTER SEVEN Digital Technologies and Learning: Their Role in Enhancing Social and Economic Development (Clotilde Fonseca)
Development as Opportunity and Capacity-Building
The Poor as Bonsais
Digital Technologies as Enablers
The Development Problem
Equity and Learning Opportunities
New Approaches in Development Theory
Youth, Learning, and Development Opportunities
The Omar Dengo Foundation and Its Contribution to Costa Rica’s Development
Impacts and Testimonies from the Field
ODF: Its Origins, Purpose, and Development Theories
From Educational Informatics to Entrepreneurship and Citizen Participation
Lessons Learned from the Implementation of Lanz@
Results of the Implementation Process
ODF’s Impact in Costa Rica’s Development
Identification of Impact and Elements for Project Design
New Directions: Where This Work Is Leading and Why
The Role of “Angel Investors” in Stimulating Innovation and Social Change
Notes
CHAPTER EIGHT Past, Present, and Future of Biological Control of Malaria with Community Participation in Peru (Palmira Ventosilla)
Background
Malaria in the Peruvian Context
Biological Control of Malaria
Community Biological Control of Malaria Using Coconuts in the District of Salitral, Province of Sullana, Department Piura, Peru (1989–2002)
1. Sociological Studies
2. Biological Studies
3. Educational Proposal
Results
Phase 1: Social Studies and Raising Awareness (1992–93)
Socioeconomic Characteristics
(a) Community organization
(b) Education
(c) Labour organization
(d) Health
Phase 2: Intervention in Schools (1994–95)
Phase 3: Intervention in the Community (July 1994–April 1996)
Phase 4: Evaluation
1. Short-Term Evaluation (1993–95)
2. Medium-Term Evaluation (1998–2003)
3. Long-Term Evaluation (2003–4)
Conclusion
Notes
CHAPTER NINE Participatory Research on Information and Communication Technologies for Development and the Logic of the Network Approach (Heloise Emdon)
Introduction
My Early Path: Exploring the Relationship between ICTs and Women’s Development
New Opportunities for Enabling International Development Research on Policy and ICT Access and Use in Africa
From Local to Global
ICTs for Development in Context
Women’s Stories
Conclusion: Next Steps
Notes
CHAPTER TEN The Role of Private Academic Centres and Foreign Aid in Developing Social Sciences during Military Dictatorship (Diego E. Piñeiro)
Notes
CONCLUSION Long-Term Solutions
General Bibliography
Contributors
Index
BACK COVER
 
 
 
 
 
 

Acknowledgements
 
 
This book is an offshoot of a project to write a history of the InternationalDevelopment Research Centre. Research on the IDRC History Projectbegan in 2006 and over a three-year period we had the opportunityto meet scientists from around the world. We would like to thank all thecontributors to this book for their efforts in making the conference theyinitially attended and this publication a success. The conference was entitled “Canada and Research for Development: Past, Present and Future,”and it was organized with support from IDRC. With the support of Lauchlan Munro, IDRC vice-president, Corporate Strategy and Regional Management, and former president of IDRC, Maureen O’Neil, we were ableto bring together this diverse group of researchers whose work has madea difference.
Along with encouragement from a number of other IDRC staff, webenefited from the support of the Centre for International GovernanceInnovation in Waterloo and staff at Wilfrid Laurier University Press. Inparticular, we would like to thank Rob Kohlmeier and Ryan Chyncesthrough the publication process. Our anonymous reviewers provided agreat deal of assistance in helping us corral ideas and better connect thesubmissions, which were written from a wide variety of social, ethnic, andpolitical contexts. A great many thanks go to Laura Murray, who helped usedit and format generally pull the book together. We are indebted to ourpartners, Kelly Saxberg and Sandi Bair, who not only served as sounding boards for many ideas that did not see the light of day but who lived andrelived the “drama” of many of the decisions that went into this book. Wecannot hope to repay them for their patience and the sacrifices they madeto see us through the entire IDRC History Project.
 
 

INTRODUCTION
 
 
 
 
 
The InternationalDevelopment Research Centreand Research for Development
 
 
 
One of the most fascinating and inspiring aspects of international development is the dedication of individuals who are engaged finding solutionsto the problems faced by the world’s poor. In this age of globalization, weare never far from those that plague developing countries. From theextremes of poverty experienced by the majority of the world’s populationto the wealthiest of the weal