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DEVELOPMENT
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RELIEF
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GOAL
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| Facilitate change |
Deliver services
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| Attacks root causes |
Treats Symptoms
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| Prevention |
Cure
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| Long term objectives |
Short term objectives
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| Inspire cooperation |
Finish project
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| Independence |
Meet immediate need
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| Build capacity |
Stop-gap solutions
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| Transformation |
Temporary relief
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| World view change |
Behavioral change
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| Holistic and integrated |
Reductionistic and compartmentalized
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PRIMARY PARTNERS
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| Community focus |
Individual focus
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| Church as "healing community" |
Individual recipients
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ORGANIZATION
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| Decentralized |
Centralized
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| Uses existing structures |
Uses donor's structures
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| Much local ownership |
Little local ownership
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| Participatory |
Hierarchical
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| Uses local resources |
Uses foreign resources
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| Indigenous leadership style |
Expatriate leadership style
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| Volunteers/Non-professionals |
Salaried staff
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| Generalists |
Specialists
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SCALE
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| Small |
Big
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| Grass roots |
Institutional
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| Personal |
Impersonal
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| Low appropriate tech |
High Tech
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INTERACTION OF LEADERS/CHANGE AGENTS AND PRIMARY PARTNERS
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| Fraternalistic |
Paternalistic
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| Incarnational |
Extractionistic
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| Reciprocal relationship |
Donor-recipient relationship
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| Begin with locals' perceived needs |
Begin with expats' perceived needs
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| Participatory appraisal/evaluation |
Top-down appraisal and evaluation
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| On-the-job training |
Centralized training
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| Moves at local pace |
Moves at expat's pace
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| Emphasizes flexible process |
Follows standard blue-print
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PERPETUATION
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| Sustainable (reproducible) |
Non-sustainable
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| Empowerment |
Continued dependency
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| "Help others help themselves" |
"Help others"
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| Nonformal "problem-posing" education |
Formal Western education
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| Uses contextualized media |
Uses alien media
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| Emphasizes stewardship |
Ongoing donor mentality
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Four Dimentions of Christian Development Ministry
HEIGHT
*motivated by God's mission to reconcile all things to Himself
*facilitated through the church as the "healing community"
*integrated vertically with all other types of ministry
*infused with wisdom and power from above
DEPTH
*goal is transformation on deepest level of being
*aims at worldview change as key to transformation
*attacks root causes, especially sin, not just symptoms
BREADTH
*broad holistic agenda
*focuses on a few but with intent to impact everyone
*decentralized organization spreads ownership
*participatory leadership empowers more people
LENGTH
*begins with the end in mind
*long-term objectives include establishing a church that will serve as agent of reconciliation until the Lord comes
*inclined against short-sighted use of outside funds
*concern for appropriate scale with
sustainability in mind
*sustainability balanced by sense of global responsibility and stewardship
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