Volume 9, Number 4

• Editorial
  • Editorial 9(4)
    Eade, Deborah
• Articles
  • The Emperor's New Clothes: a moral tale for development experts?
    Hintjens, Helen
  • Birds of a feather? UNDP and ActionAid implementation of Sustainable Human Development
    Nicholls, Lilly
  • Pursuing partnership: World Vision and the ideology of development - a case study
    Whaites, Alan
  • Microfinance, wage employment and housework: a gender analysis
    Khan, Mahmuda Rahman
  • The use of donkeys in the central highlands of Mexico: a gender perspective
    von Keyserlingk
• Viewpoint
  • ICVA's near-death experience: temptation and redemption in the `Humanitarian International'
    Sogge, David
  • Mission impossible? Creating partnerships among NGOs, governments, and donors
    Kilalo, Christine; Johnson, Deb
  • Community development in the Third World - walking a fine line
    Casey, Dympna
• Practical Notes
  • Resuscitating voter interest in Zambia: the Adult Education Association of Zambia's role in national elections
    Chakanika, Wanga Weluzani; Chibuta Chuma, Peter
  • A participatory approach to community-based HIV/AIDS awareness
    Breslin, Edward D.; Sawyer, Ron
  • Information affluence for the developing world: the vision and work of WorldSpace
    Samara, Noah A.
  • Alternative financial institutions? Sustainability, development, social reproduction, and gender analysis
    Kidder, Thalia
• Feedback
  • Evaluation of microfinance projects
    Johnson, Susan
  • In support of Where Women Have No Doctor
    Starrs, Ann M.
  • Prescription for underdevelopment
    Shannon, Sarah; Metcalf, Elena
• Book Reviews

Birds of a feather? UNDP and ActionAid implementation of Sustainable Human Development

Nicholls, Lilly

By the 1990s, innovative ideas such as Sustainable Human Development (SHD) and People-Centred Development (PCD) had begun to shift the development discourse beyond economistic perspectives and the ideological (market versus state) debates of earlier days. This article describes how, despite their promise and the genuine efforts of international development agencies such as UNDP and ActionAid to put SHD/PCD ideas into practice, the conceptual deficiencies of the SHD/PCD paradigm, and internal organisational interests within the two agencies, have gradually displaced the agenda's core components.

This article is freely available as a chapter in Development NGOs and Civil Society.

Keywords: Subsaharan Africa; Subsaharan Africa; Subsaharan Africa; Subsaharan Africa

   

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