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Overview
This topic aims to provide students with a comprehensive knowledge and skills necessary for planning and managing development programs/projects with particular reference to poorer countries. It focuses on the centrality of the state institutions in promoting and sustaining development in low-income economies and transitional societies. Major aspects to be covered … For more content click the Read More button below.
Aims
This topic aims to provide the participants with a comprehensive knowledge of developmental issues and enhance their capabilities and skills necessary to plan, implement, manage and evaluate development programs/projects.
Learning outcomes
On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:
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Demonstrate familiarity with basic concepts of and approaches to development and its management with particular reference to poorer countries
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Demonstrate clear understanding of the important strategies and mechanisms tried in the past, results achieved and the alternatives currently being advocated to achieve developmental goals
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Demonstrate deeper appreciation of the political and institutional context of development and the complexities and challenges involved in the management of the development programs
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Demonstrate enhanced knowledge of the best practices in planning and management of development in different contexts and the factors that contribute towards the success of such initiatives
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Develop and apply a framework for reflective practice about development policy and management
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