Development Projects as Policy Experiments
An Adaptive Approach to Development Administration
Dennis A. Rondinelli(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 17. December 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-415-06623-5 (ISBN)
Description
As international agencies' assistance strategies become more complex, their methods of planning and administration become less effective. Neither the rationalistic techniques of planning and management they adopted during the 1960s and 1970s to control development activities nor the structural adjustment models they used during the 1980s and 1990s to reform economic policies, encouraged the flexibility, experimentation and social learning that are crucial to implementing successfully complex and uncertain development activities. Urgent reorientation of development programmes and continuous testing and verification is required if development activity is to cope effectively with the uncertainty and complexity of the development process. An adaptive approach is needed, an approach which relies on strategic planning, administrative procedures that facilitate innovation, responsiveness and experimentation, and on decision-making processes that join learning with action. Following practical testing and reformulation of ideas presented in the first edition, this up-dated text offers new examples and extended coverage of participatory and strategic management.
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Series
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Illustrations
illustrations, 3 figures
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-06623-5 (9780415066235)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
The problem of development administration; coping with complexity and uncertainty; development policies as social experiments; from macroeconomic growth to sectoral development; development policies as social experiments; from growth-with-equity to structual adjustment; designing development projects; the limits of rationalistic planning and management; implementing development projects as policy experiments; toward adaptive administration; reorienting development administration; principles, problems and opportunities.