How a local Kamayoq is filling the role of a professional within the community.

Participatory development in action - for iPod/iPhone

Providing communities with experts

Participatory development inaction

Transcript -- A brief introduction to this album.

Transcript -- Participatory development inaction

Development agency support has led to greater access and management of water. Farmers in Peru have to persevere in their struggle.

Fighting for water

Transcript -- Development agency support has led to greater access and management of water. Farmers in Peru have to persevere in their struggle.

Transcript -- Fighting for water

Knowledge and technical skills are passed down through Kamayoqs to other farmers.  An example of how it has changed one woman’s life.

Learning to change the future

Transcript -- Knowledge and technical skills are passed down through Kamayoqs to other farmers.  An example of how it has changed one woman’s life.

Transcript -- Learning to change the future

Transcript -- How a local Kamayoq is filling the role of a professional within the community.

Transcript -- Providing communities with experts

Funding projects to implement further change in the Andean community.

Speeding up the pace of change

Transcript -- Funding projects to implement further change in the Andean community.

Transcript -- Speeding up the pace of change

Scolastico

Do you take your access to water for granted? The Peruvian and Tanzanian communities featured in this album certainly don’t. This album examines how development agencies can empower communities to help themselves by introducing simple technologies, and facilitate the sharing of ideas through education. In the Andean mountains, scarce supplies of water and agricultural challenges give rise to conflict; but the changes engineered by development agencies can start to show a way out of poverty. Meanwhile, Tanzanian rural schoolchildren are instrumental in bringing about positive long-term change within their communities.  However, development in practice is very complex and sometimes controversial. The audio tracks delve into the dilemma of how to incorporate the value systems of impoverished communities and agencies, which can have differing agendas. They also show how development is linked to issues of identity, urbanisation, politics, economics, social relations and gender. To complete the album, Dr Helen Yanacopulos of The Open University's Development Policy and Practice unit explains the choice of some of the case studies provided, and unpicks some of the issues that emerge.  This material is taken from The Open University course TU871 Development: context and practice.