Message-ID: <33D3F4B0.2B79@m.cc.utah.edu> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 17:45:52 -0600 From: "James B. Mayfield" <mailto:james.mayfield@M.CC.UTAH.EDU> Subject: One Can Make A Difference To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
Several people have asked where they can get a copy of One Can Make a Difference. It is published by University Press of America, 4720 Boston Way, Lanham, Maryland 20706. Below is the table of contents.
One Can Make A Difference The Challenges and Opportunities of Dealing with World Poverty
The Role of Rural Development Facilitators (RDFs) in the Process of Rural Development
James B. Mayfield
University Press of America, Inc., 4720 Boston Way, Lanham, Maryland, 20706
Table of Contents Foreword by Muhammad Yunus Unit One: Introduction to the Field of Development p. 1 Chapter One: Introduction p. 3 Chapter Two: The Realities of Poverty in the LDCs p. 9 Chapter Three: The Challenges of Conceptualizing World Poverty p. 41 Chapter Four: Toward an Understanding of the Concept of Development p. 65 Unit Two: The Concept of Rural Development p. 101 Chapter Five: Concept of Rural Development p. 103 Case One: The Y. C. James Yen Story p. 125 Case Two: The Village Bank System of Egypt p. 135 Case Three: Sarvodaya: A New Form of Development p. 147 Case Four: The Grameen Bank p. 160 Case Five: ACCORD Organization p. 168 Lessons Learned From the Case Studies p. 175 Unit Three: Becoming an RDF, Challenges of Training p. 181 Chapter Six: Is A Career in Development for You? p. 183 Chapter Seven: Getting the Most From RDF Education and Training p. 203 Chapter Eight: Stage One of Rural Development: The Process of Trust Building and Cultural Awareness p. 237 Chapter Nine: Stage Two of Rural Development: The Process of Problem-Solving in Village Development p. 267 Chapter Ten: Stage Three of Rural Development: The Process of Local Institution Building, Empowerment, Networking and Coalition Building: p. 299 Unit Four: Five Dimensions of Rural Development p. 323 Chapter Eleven: First Dimension: Non Formal Education and Grassroots Literacy Programs p. 327 Chapter Twelve: Second Dimension: Primary Health Care in the Village p. 349 Chapter Thirteen: Third Dimension: The Role of Agriculture and Small Scale Enterprise in Village Development p. 389 Chapter Fourteen: Fourth Dimension: A Concern and an Appreciation for the Local Environment. p. 417 Chapter Fifteen: Fifth Dimension: Local Culture Enhancement: A Key to Long-Term Sustainable Development p. 447 Chapter Sixteen: Reflections On Foreign Aid and Technical Assistance: The Role of NGNOs p. 473
Foreword
In an age when centralized bureaucracies, large-scale donor agencies, and well funded Non Government Organizations (NGOs) seem to dominate the process of development, it is appropriate to reflect on the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of individuals who have dedicated their lives to living and working among the poorest of the poor, those nearly two billion who often live in the more isolated and disadvantaged villages of the world. Professor Mayfield has sought to outline the processes of rural development, seeking to emphasize the various programs, strategies and interventions that have been successul in confronting the tragedies of world poverty. It is refreshing to find a book that approaches the challenge of poverty alleviation with some sense of optimism. Professor Mayfield has done the discpline a great service in outlining the many examples of success that are available in the literature. It is easy to criticize the many efforts that have tended to fail, to dwell on the blunders and mistakes that have been made in the past. What we need are models of success, approaches that have worked, interventions that appear to produce sustainable long-term development. For many of the general public and even a significant number of experts in development, there is not much good that can be said for foreign aid, technical assistance, and the past efforts to help the disadvantaged of this planet. While it is easy to see failure and misuse of funds, a more objective assessment of the past four decades, suggests in a most profound way that there has been far more progress than might be believed in general, that the real test of success, may not be in the budgetary allocations of the larger government programs or in the well-funded international donor agencies, but more in the lives and in the work of the many community development workers, rural development facilitators, village school teachers, primary health care workers, agricultural extension workers, micro-credit workers, and others who are willing to live and work out among the poor, experiencing the heat, the dust, and the misery on a day to day basis -- these are the real heroes of development. This book has been dedicated to the proposition that One Person Can Make A Difference. Over the past several decades we have learned a lot about what works and what does not work in a village setting, what is more apt to be sustainable and what is less likely to be sustainable, and why a sensitivity and an appreciation for the local knowledge, culture and spiritual values of the rural areas of this world may well be far more important than the complicated administration systems, the large budget allocations or the costly technologies that have characterized so much of development work in the past and in the present. I agree with the notion, that rural development is best defined as "people development," that what is needed is a greater commitment to recruiting and training people to live and work in the rural areas of the world. This is a book that takes us in that direction, that demonstrates a number of successful approaches and interventions, and thereby helps to document that One Can Make A Difference. Muhammad Yunus Grameen Bank
> --Jim Mayfield
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