Socio-cultural factors in development assistance / by Arne Martin Klausen

A la coberta: The Norwegian National Committee of the World Decade for Cultural Development

Publicació originària del Ministeri de Desenvolupament i Cooperació de Noruega (MDC)

1. General information on socio-cultural factors: 1.1. Background for the assignment and interpretation of the mandate ; 1.2. The different concepts of culture ; 1.3. The cultural dimension of development assistance- a historical outline ; 1.4. The basic principles and the cultural dimension of Norwegian development assistance today ; 1.5. Focuses on women, ecology and socio-cultural factors- how do they differ? ; 1.6. Change and development ; 1.7. The extent of cultural differences ; 1.8. Tolerance of cultural differences -- 2. An attempt to translate socio-cultural factors into operational terms: 2.1. Can socio-cultural factors be measured? ; 2.2. How should socio-cultural factors be described? ; 2.3. Value circulation analysis as a planning tool ; 2.4. Are there any experts on socio-cultural factors? ; 2.5. Ideal criteria and the art of the possible ; 2.6. Different forms of development cooperation require different planning procedures ; 2.7 What is meant by “to take into account” and how much is “sufficient”? -- 3. A status report · summary of studies of archive material: 3.1. Sample and criteria ; 3.1. Evaluation reports and country studies ; 3.3. Project documents and other archive material ; 3.4. The planning manual and other guidelines -- 4. Difficulties in translating socio-cultural factors into operational terms: 4.1. Framework conditions in the MDC/NORAD- “sub-cultures” and organization ; 4.1. Difficulties at the recipient end ; 4.3. Difficulties related to the social sciences -- 5. Preliminary proposals for better routines: 5.1. General measures ; 5.1. Specific, short-term measures -- Appendix: The mandate for and summary of the original report to the MDC