Friday, August 10, 2012

Development paradigm and shift in sustainable development



Paradigm is a comprehensive belier system, world view, or framework that guide practice in a field.” Willis 2007

The world atlas of wealth is shrinking while the one of poverty is expanding.”

Development paradigm-approaches

1.       Relief approach

a.       Provide welfare to poor people
b.      Provide service and goods directly
c.       Based on belief that outside agents must help those who are unable to help themselves

2.       Perform approach

a.       Provide knowledge, skills and awareness
b.      Gets participation to run development activities
c.       Outside agent must help that the people must change their life and run their life in their own way

3.       Right approach

a.       Perceives that poverty, deprivation and backwardness are outcomes of social structure at local, national and international levels.
b.      Belief that the basic needs of poor are basic rights that these structures implicitly or explicitly deny
c.       Focuses on polity, legal and social reformation to assist the marginalization to claim these as their own basic right
d.      Makes strategies with deprived groups to empower them to participate in decision making process that affects their lives at all levels.

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