Development Practitioners' Handbook

A prerequisite for effective develoment work is a knowledge and understanding of the approach, perspective and value-base from which the practitioner works. This handbook aims to provide a source of knowledge and inspiration to those actively engaged in development work. It demonstrates that the discipline of the field worker is an art which demands imagination, flexibility, the ability to work with ambiguity and contradiction, and to use guidelines but not rules. It provides suggestions on how western-trained workers should think about themselves and their work, and views development from various viewpoints - the individual, the organization, community and society.

'A book that all reflective practitioners should read, and read again'

Allan Kaplan is co-founder of the Proteus Initiative, and former Director of the Community Development Resource Association in Cape Town, South Africa. He specialises in working with NGOs and community-based organisations across Southern and East Africa, as well as in Europe. He is the author of Development Practitioners and Social Process (Pluto, 2002) and The Development Practitioners' Handbook (Pluto, 1996).

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