Context-Sensitive Development : : How International NGOs Operate in Myanmar / / Anthony Ware.

• VerfasserIn: Ware, Anthony ,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2012]; Kumarian Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (286 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Tables and Figures --; Abbreviations --; Acknowledgments --; Preface --; Prologue: Burma or Myanmar? A Note on Names and Political Orientation --; Part 1 The Problem and Theory --; Part 2 Myanmar: A Historically Informed Analysis of Context --; Part 3 Context-Sensitivity in INGO Development Practice --; Afterword --; Glossary of Myanmar Terms --; List of Interview Participants --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781565495258
• DOI: 10.1515/9781565495258
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Anthony Ware.

Focusing on Myanmar, with its perfect storm of extreme poverty, international sanctions, and egregious political repression, Anthony Ware shows how context sensitivity can help development organizations to better meet the needs of their client populations. Ware points out that, while practitioners have questioned universal economic prescriptions for development, they have been less rigorous in questioning the normative foundations behind their work. Though Myanmar is his case in point, he suggests key issues of perception and practice that are intrinsic to a successful development enterprise wherever it is undertaken.