Gender and the Case of Girls’ Education: Organizational Learning in International Development Agencies

2008 ◽  
pp. 203-222
Author(s):  
Nelly P. Stromquist
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Learning ◽  
International Development ◽  
Development Agencies

ICTs and the (Re)Production of Development Knowledge in Africa

2014 ◽  
pp. 36-54
Author(s):  
Lord C. Mawuko-Yevugah
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Western Development ◽  
African Context ◽  
Development Agencies ◽  
Dependency Model ◽  
Development Paradigm

Over the past few years, Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) have been promoted by Western development agencies in Africa and other regions of the developing world. There are legion of intellectual (theoretical) and practical policy-oriented arguments advanced by the proponents of an ICT-driven agenda and to justify why this paradigm offers an effective pathway out of poverty and under-development in the global South. This chapter proposes a critical theoretical approach for analyzing and interpreting the implications and impacts of this ICT-driven development agenda for Africa and other regions striving for home-grown and locally-driven development agenda. Drawing on aspects of critical theoretical lenses including Foucault's knowledge-power dynamics and neo-Gramscian concept of hegemony, the chapter explores how the ICT-driven development paradigm being championed by key international development agencies may in fact,help to perpetuate unequal power relations in the production of development knowledge whereby ideas and practices of the “developed” and “advanced” West are privileged and imposed on the “less developed” and “backward” regions such as Africa. The chapter provides a historical overview on development theory in the African context from the era of modernization theory to the neo-liberal turn in order to examine if and how the ICT-driven paradigm offers any departures from the path-dependency model embedded in earlier theoretical and policy interventions.

Evaluation for Improvement in International Development Agencies - Learning from a Pilot Project

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (1) ◽  
pp. 11428
Author(s):  
Sami Ullah Bajwa ◽  
Katie Minderhoud ◽  
Muhammad Asif
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Development Agencies
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