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Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
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This free course was written by Susan Fawcett and Emil Dauncey.

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Section 3: extract: Eyben, R., Kidder, T., Rowlands, J. and Bronstein A. (2008) ‘Thinking about change for development practice: a case study from Oxfam GB’ p.203, Development in Practice

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Course image: World Bank Photo Collection World Bank Photo Collection | Flickr. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-commercial-No Derivatives Licence http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-nc-nd/ 3.0/

Figure 1: adapted from: ‘Pretty’s typology of participation’, Community Development Journal, 2008, Oxford University Press

Figure 2: Rist, L. et al. (2013) ‘A new paradigm for adaptive management’, Ecology and Society, vol. 18, no. 4, art. 63.

Figure 3: Photo by Jamie Street/Unsplash

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Video 1: Documentation of Manual Drilling in Lagos and beyond by Rural Water Supply Network. https://vimeo.com/107047730. http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 3.0/

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