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Development Approaches and Competing Paradigms

In: Sustainable Community Development: Dilemma of Options in Kenya

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  • Fuchaka Waswa

    (Kenyatta University)

  • Christine Ruth Saru Kilalo
  • Dominic Mwambi Mwasaru

Abstract

This chapter chronologically discusses past development approaches and competing paradigms in Kenya since independence to date. The menu of approaches provides development practitioners with insights on what may work and what may not work in the quest for sustainable community development. Further the chapter provides insight on how the dominant group (political elite) has insisted on using the approaches under interrogation to perpetually and subtly encourage the underdevelopment of the masses. By way of conclusion, the future of sustainable community development requires deliberate replacement of the “dominant paradigm” that is still elitist-driven with a more socially oriented people-driven process, in order to eradicate institutionalized poverty.

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  • Fuchaka Waswa & Christine Ruth Saru Kilalo & Dominic Mwambi Mwasaru, 2014. "Development Approaches and Competing Paradigms," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Sustainable Community Development: Dilemma of Options in Kenya, chapter 2, pages 19-56, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-49741-3_2
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137497413_2
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