Introducing international development management

This course on international development management aims to provide learners with an overview of international development, including understanding different contexts, actors, and conceptualizations. By the end of the course, students will be able to manage development challenges professionally and personally, engage with conflict, and develop institutions effectively. The course teaches tools and approaches for investigating, understanding, and being inclusive in development management. It is designed for individuals interested in pursuing a career in international development or related fields.

• Introduction
• Learning outcomes
• 1 Overview of international development
• 1 Overview of international development
• 1.1 Development, development management – and you
• 1.2 Looking at development: context and practice
• 1.2.1 Different contexts
• 1.2.2 Different conceptualisations
• iii. Different actors
• 1.3 Managing development: professional and personal challenges
• 1.3.1 Acting in public arenas
• ii. Being inclusive
• 1.3.3 Making a case
• 1.4 Developing institutions: rules and relationships
• i. Framing development
• 1.4.2 Building relationships
• iii. Negotiating development
• 1.5 Engaging with conflict: war and peace
• i. Civil war threatens development
• ii. Challenging conventional wisdom on the causes of civil war
• iii. Peacebuilding as a process
• Over to you …
• 2 Development context and practice
• 2 Development context and practice
• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 Poverty and inequality
• 2.3 Globalisation
• 2.4 The practice of development
• 2.5 Public action and development policy
• 2.6 Public action as steering development
• 2.7 Public action as enabling immanent development
• 2.8 Public action as contesting development
• 2.9 Section summary and conclusion
• 3 Managing Development
• 3 Managing Development
• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 Managing development: professional and personal challenge
• 3.3 Development management in the twenty-first century
• 3.4 Managing development: tools and approaches
• 3.5 Tools and approaches: investigating
• 3.6 Tools and approaches: understanding
• 3.7 Tools and approaches: being inclusive
• 3.8 The development manager as advocate: making a case
• 3.9 The development manager as advocate: making a case against
• 4 Institutions of development
• 4 Institutions of development
• 4.1 Introduction
• 4.2 Understanding institutions and institutional development
• 4.3 Why are institutions and institutional development important for development?
• 4.4 Why do inter-organisational relations matter?
• 4.5 The changing relationships between state, market and civil society
• i. Bringing the state back in
• ii. Building institutions for markets
• iii. Understanding civil society
• 4.6 Making institutional development happen
• 4.7 Perspective and power in making institutional development happen
• 5 Development in difficult contexts
• 5 Development in difficult contexts
• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 Perceptions
• 5.3 Decision making
• 5.4 Choices and principles – sanctions and Sierra Leone
• ‘The sanctions debate’
• 5.5 Negotiation
• Conclusion
• References
• Acknowledgements