Human Rights and Community-Led Development
Subtitle: Lessons from Tostan
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781474419796
Subjects: Human rights, africa; Community development, africa
Description: This book investigates work of the NGO Tostan as a working model of human development. The study is grounded in the ethnographic study of the actual change that happened in one West African village. How can we best empower people living in the most economically disadvantaged areas of the world to improve their lives in ways that matter to them? This book investigates work of the NGO Tostan as a working model of human development. The study is grounded in the ethnographic study of the actual change that happened in one West African village. The result is a powerful mix of theory and practice that questions existing approaches to development and that speaks to both development scholars and practitioners.