The Silent Architecture of International Development dismantles the dominant paradigm of international development by asking a question that practitioners have learned not to ask: What if the problem was never skills, mindset, or leadership in the first place? Drawing on decades of evidence from successful interventions across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, Babu George argues that durable development outcomes emerge not from teaching, training, or transferring values, but from external interventions that reconfigure the structural conditions under which people act, specifically the architecture of risk, incentive, access, and time, and then withdraw. The book offers both a devastating critique of the development industry's addiction to legible but ineffective programming and a practical alternative framework for practitioners, funders, and policymakers who are ready to stop performing impact and start enabling it. Written for Western development agencies, their consultants and trainers, but equally for communities on the receiving end of well-intentioned failure, this work provides the vocabulary and diagnostic tools to distinguish genuine structural support from elaborately disguised colonialism.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The Silent Architecture of International Development dismantles the dominant paradigm of international development by asking a question that practitioners have learned not to ask: What if the problem was never skills, mindset, or leadership in the first place? Drawing on decades of evidence from successful interventions across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, Babu George argues that durable development outcomes emerge not from teaching, training, or transferring values, but from external interventions that reconfigure the structural conditions under which people act, specifically the architecture of risk, incentive, access, and time, and then withdraw. The book offers both a devastating critique of the development industry's addiction to legible but ineffective programming and a practical alternative framework for practitioners, funders, and policymakers who are ready to stop performing impact and start enabling it. Written for Western development agencies, their consultants and trainers, but equally for communities on the receiving end of well-intentioned failure, this work provides the vocabulary and diagnostic tools to distinguish genuine structural support from elaborately disguised colonialism. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9798243174251
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