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Title:Empowering People? World Vision and 'Transformatory Development' in Tanzania
Authors:Kelsall, TimISNI
Mercer, ClaireISNI
Year:2003
Periodical:Review of African Political Economy
Volume:30
Issue:96
Period:June
Pages:293-304
Language:English
Geographic term:Tanzania
Subjects:development
popular participation
Development and Technology
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056244.2003.9693501
Abstract:Ideas of participatory development and empowerment have become central to contemporary development discourse. This article identifies two axes of tension within this discourse. First is the disturbing thought that by empowering a 'community' a development project can disempower groups or individuals within that community. Second is the paradox whereby external agents are perceived as necessary to install internal desires and capacities for individual and community autonomy. The article presents empirical data from research conducted in 1996-1997 into two Area Development Projects (ADPs) supported by the NGO World Vision in northeast Tanzania, viz. Moshono ADP (Moshono Division, Arumeru District in Arusha region) and Sanya ADP (Siha Division, Hai District in Kilimanjaro Region). The aim is to show that the dilemmas of development in practice turn around these axes of tension, as the attempts to empower the 'community' benefit disproportionately an elite - the idea of development as 'empowerment' inserted into the community from the outside. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract, edited]
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