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"At last!..this guide will become an essential item on your bookshelf!"
-Professor John Overton, Director of Development Studies, Victoria University, Aotearoa New Zealand.
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"This Guide should be an essential addition to the backpack or briefcase of development practitioners, academics and students working in the Pacific region."
Associate Professor Regina Scheyvens, Head of the Institute of Development Studies, Massey University, Aotearoa New Zealand.
The world of international development is awash with terms and acronyms mysterious to the uninitiated and impossible to keep abreast of for the most deeply submerged. This guide gives you the tools you need to navigate all those complex terms and jargon. Over 1200 terms covered! This guide not only defines and explains terms in readable language, but also provides you with brief summaries of the critiques surrounding controversial terms.
Some of the subject areas the guide covers include: agriculture, aid, conflict and security, cultural survival, disaster relief and management, economy, education, environmental issues, food security, gender, globalisation, governance, health, human rights, indigenous rights, land use, migration and refuge, NGOs/civil society, peace, poverty, privatisation, trade and water rights.
The Guide is an invaluable resource for all who are passionate about international development and global issues. The easy-to-read format and concise explanations and critiques give you the key to the language of development at your fingertips, empowering practitioners, activists, academics and students to be more effective at meetings, workshops, during field and secondary research and in class.
The Guide offers you:
- Easy-to-read colour format with concise, accessible explanations and critiques
- Wide coverage of development themes, including over 1200 terms
- Wide coverage of general and specialised terms in all areas of development, relevant for everyone from the interested public and undergraduate students to academics and those working in development
- Comprehensive guide to the UN and other major global palyers, as well as regional organisations, key political movements, strategies and trends in the Pacific
- Quick access to the meanings of acronyms and terms used now in written and spoken debate, including the latest terms from the official reports and the hallways of key regional and global meetings
- Pacific reference maps and reference lists for key regional organisations
What are people saying about the Guide?
"At last! For many years we have been plagued with an ever-increasing lexicon of development-speak. Now this guide provides us with a means to translate this often-impenetrable language into something that can be understood by all. If you ever needed to tell your MIRABs from your PRSPs or work with PRISM or PRUDD, this guide will become an essential item on your bookshelf!"
Professor John Overton, Director of Development Studies, Victoria University, Aotearoa New Zealand.
"A pithy, informative and highly relevant guide to the multitude of terms, organisations and theories about development…should be an essential addition to the backpack or briefcase of development practitioners, academics and students. This is an invaluable resource that will transport development practitioners, academics and students who are bogged down with development jargon from a state of confusion to one of enlightenment!"
Associate Professor Regina Scheyvens, Head of the Institute of Development Studies, Massey University, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Alice Beban-France is an Information Officer at Dev-Zone and co-editor of the magazine Just Change. She has a Masters in Development Studies (Dist.) from Massey University, and has worked with NGOs in Cambodia, Sri Lanka and Japan.
Jonquil Brooks has been working in international aid and development, and community education, for 25 years. She was Director of the Development Resource Centre for 10 years, and now works as a freelance copy-editor.
The Development Resource Centre (DRC) is a not-for-profit, non-governmental organisation that works to inform and educate New Zealanders to take action to create a just world. Dev-Zone also runs a free public library with fantastic books, films and magazines on global issues, manages the knowledge centre, a portal of quality links on global issues and publishes the free magazine Just Change.The DRC is governed by an independent charitable trust and core funded by Nga Hoe Tupatupa-mai-tawhiti (The New Zealand Agency for International Development).
We hope the Guide to International Development Terms and Acronyms - Pacific Focus will be available soon in a quality bookshop near you, where our recommended retail price is NZ$20.00.
If you're in Wellington you can come into the Dev-Zone office in the James Smiths building (55 Cuba Street Wellington) and pick up the Guide, or order here and we'll send it out to you for just $20 (inc. p&p) to a NZ address, or $25 (inc. p&p) for international purchases.
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Title: Guide to International Development Terms and Acronyms: Pacific Focus
Editors: Alice Beban-France and Jonquil Brooks
Publisher: Development Resource Centre
Place of Publication: Te Whanga-nui-a-Tara, Wellington
Date: June 2008
ISBN: 978-0-9582873-3-3
Recommended Retail Price: $20.00
