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P07


Critical sustainable capacity and development management 
Convenor:
Farhad Analoui (University of Bradford)
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Location:
L30 (Richmond building)
Start time:
7 September, 2017 at
Time zone: Europe/London
Session slots:
1

Short Abstract:

This panel is concerned with the need for sharing critical challenges offered by new strands of research, theories, principles, tools, applications and different experience of practitioners' capacity and development management for continual learning, and the realisation of the sustainable goals.

Long Abstract:

The term development and its unitary interpretation dominates the debates at local, national and international levels, and suggests a wider political and policy for poverty, unemployment and inequality. A challenging multidimensional view stresses that whilst economic development is necessary, it may not be sufficient to improve capacity, human well-being and poverty reduction. The experiences of the development management theorists and practitioners have repeatedly reminded us that removing 'economic and social challenges and inequality' requires systematic modern and engaging capacity development and sound management principles that ease the process of reform and realising sustainable development goals. Despite the differences in views on the nature and role of the development management being 'idealist', 'managerialistic' and 'donors politics and agenda 'value laden', it is generally agreed that development management is progressive management of development and managing interventions on behalf of the relatively powerless. Indeed, recent empirical research and donor agencies reports suggest that the role of the capacity and development management for achieving sustainability has gained great deal prominence. Ultimately, whether we subscribe to 'modernising', 'dependency', 'economic', and 'geographic context related' or 'institutional' theories of the development the process of development requires capacity and application of managerial know how to achieve effectiveness and efficiency as prerequisite to its sustainability. This panel is concerned with the need for critical challenges offered by new strands of research, theories, principles, tools, applications and different experiences of practitioners involved to ensure continual learning and the realisation of the sustainable development goals.

Accepted papers:

Session 1