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Pick and Sirkin show how IMIFAP, a Mexican NGO, has employed a development strategy to encourage the establishment of a participatory, healthy and educated citizenry. The program strategy is grounded in Amartya Sen's approach to sustainable development through expanding individual's capabilities and freedoms.
It presents the Framework for Enabling Empowerment (FrEE) and the step by step strategy "Programming for Choice," based on the practical experience and evaluation of IMIFAP's programs. The end goal is to achieve sustainable community and individual development that can be expanded across a variety of life domains (social, economic, political, education, health and psychological).
The book shows how community development can be enhanced if people are enabled to make accountable choices and expand their alternatives. International development efforts will not be sustainable if we continue to build schools without quality teachers; health clinics without enhancing logistical and psychological access and improving quality of care; and laws that are not enforced. Institutions will only flourish if their leaders and bureaucrats enhance their personal capabilities. The central premise of the book is that enhancing skills, knowledge and reducing psychological and contextual barriers to change are central (and often neglected) aspects of sustainable development.
IMIFAP was founded in 1984. Through its health promotion and poverty reduction work it has reached over 19 million people in 14 countries through over 40 different programs and over 280 educational materials with support from over 300 funding agencies and government and private institutions. Its mission is to enable society's poor and vulnerable to take charge of their lives through helping them develop their potential. We have found that through the IMIFAP "I want to, I can" programs people take the control of their lives in their own hands. Examples of these results are presented including numerous testimonies.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Introduction
The Capability Approach and its Implications for Development
Psychology as Related to Development
The Foundation of the Framework:
Personal Agency and Intrinsic Empowerment
The Framework for Enabling Empowerment (FrEE)
Considerations for Development of Programs
Summary of the Chapters
Section I: Setting the Scene
Chapter 2. Socio-cultural Norms as Impediments to Individual
and Social Change: The Case of Mexico
The Pressure to Conform in Mexico
Examples of Prevailing Mexican Socio-Cultural Norms
Political Culture
Norms as Psychological Barriers to Change
Conclusions: Overcoming Psychological Barriers
Chapter 3. Testimonies
Silvia and Lorena
Felipe, Luisa and Carmen
Susana
Conclusions
Chapter 4. The Framework for Enabling Empowerment.
Foundations of the Framework: Access to Choice and Behavior Change.
Personal Agency
Extrinsic and Intrinsic Empowerment
The Framework for Enabling Empowerment Conclusions
Section II: Sustainable Human Development
Chapter 5. Development as Enhancing Capabilities
The Historical Context of Development Economics
The Capability Approach
Conclusions
Chapter 6. The Elements of FrEE: Enhancing Opportunities and
Reducing Barriers to Development by Addressing Situational Demands
Attitudes and Intentions as Concepts Focusing on Behaviors
Beliefs, Action and the Need for Knowledge
Going Beyond Knowledge: Skills and Competencies
Life Skills in IMIFAP Programs
Conclusions: From the antecedents of choice to actual expansion of freedoms .
Chapter 7. Behaviors as Choice
Behavior Change as an Outcome
Consequences of Behavior Change: Extension of Impact to the Person Frame of FrEE
Consequences of Changes in the Person: Extension of Impact to the Context Frame of FrEE
A Note on Behavior Change
Conclusions
Chapter 8. Context
Educational Context
Economic Context
Government Context
Health Context
Conclusions
Section III: Development Strategies
Chapter 9. Strategy for Program Development and Implementation
Stages of Program Development and Implementation
Conclusions
Chapter 10. Conclusion
A Psychological Approach
Appendix
Program: 'I want to, I can prevent pregnancies'
Program: 'I want to, I can prevent violence'
Program: 'I want to, I can integral human development'
Program: 'I want to, I can learn to be dad and mom'
Program: 'I want to, I can care for my health and exercise my rights'
Program: 'I want to, I can start my own business'
Program: 'Comprehensive Community Development'
Further acknowledgements
Glossary
