果冻影院

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This module focuses upon the broad field of development practice, namely the international development industry and management approaches,听 common tools and methods employed within this industry that are used to conceptualise, design, manage, monitor and evaluate development interventions, specifically development projects and programmes. We treat 鈥榙evelopment鈥� as a normative concept and its management as being shaped by these normative principles

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In the course of this module, students are guided through an intervention planning cycle (design, budget, implementation, management, monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment) and are asked to analyse elements of the cycle based on the ontological assumptions present therein. This means analysing the assumptions contemporary approaches to development management make about reality and deciphering the culturally informed ways in which this reality is seen, known and subsequently acted upon.

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The module concludes with critical reflections on the practice of development, development management; shifting the scale of analysis from projects and programmes to the individuals who manage them , the ethics of development work and with an analysis of how COVID-19 set forth new ways of approaching development

Specifically, it asks:听

1. What does doing development mean in the contemporary world?
2. What are the dominant discourse of 鈥榙oing good鈥� that guide development practice?
3. What constitutes the development industry?
4. How can critical approaches to development management and practice reorient how development is practiced?
5. What does it mean to be an ethical development听 manager?

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Teaching delivery:听

This module is taught in 10 weekly lectures (inclusive of reading week). Teaching and learning activities include lectures, group discussions, invited speaker and student presentations. A commitment to engage with learning material prior to class is essential, as in some weeks students will need to have completed a short exercise, watched a film or read a policy document to fully participate. 听

Indicative Topics:听

The module topics are likely to include the following, these are subject to possible changes for 2024/25: Deconstructing 鈥榙evelopment鈥�; Critical reflections on development management and planning; nowing reality for development planning; Needs, objectives and rights based planning; Conceptualising interventions: projects and programmes (special focus on budgets); Logical thinking in development planning and management; Evidence and Results in development planning and management; Approaches to monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment Understanding the role of development policy; Ethics of Development Managers and management of global crisis

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Module aims:听

By the end of this module students will be able to:

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• Identify and critique a range of development management models;

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• Query the assumptions that underlie common tools and approaches to development management;

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• Situate themselves in critical reflections on practices of development management.

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Recommended readings:

1. Escobar, A., 2018.听Designs for the pluriverse: Radical interdependence, autonomy, and the making of worlds. Duke University Press.
2. Thomas, A. (1996) 鈥榃hat is development management?鈥�, Journal of International Development 8(1):95-110
3. Cooke, B. (2010). Managerialism as knowing and making in Latin America: International development management and World Bank interventions. In听International Management and International Relations听(pp. 175-198). Routledge.听
4. Eyben, R. (2003). Mainstreaming the social dimension into the overseas development administration: a partial history.听Journal of International Development: The Journal of the Development Studies Association,听15(7), 879-892.听
5. Munro, L. T., & Ika, L. (2020). Guided by the beauty of our weapons: Comparing project management standards inside and outside international development.听Development in Practice,听30(7), 934-952.听
6. May, T. (2011) 鈥楶erspectives on social scientific research鈥� in Social Research: Issues, methods and process (4th edition), Maidenhead: Open University Press/McGraw鈥怘ill, pp.7-25
7. Pailey, R. N. (2020). De鈥恈entring the 鈥榳hite gaze鈥� of development.听Development and Change,听51(3), 729-745.听
8. Hassan, M. and Kodouda, A., 2023. Dismantling old or forging new clientelistic ties? Sudan鈥檚 civil service reform after uprising.听World Development,听169, p.106232.

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Additional costs: None