Yao Assogba, avec la collaboration de Koffi R. Kékeh, Animation, participation et hydraulique villageoise en Afrique: Étude d’un exemple au Togo

Animation, participation et hydraulique villageoise en Afrique: Étude d’un exemple au Togo. (1994)
Abstract

Une édition électronique réalisée à partir du texte de Yao Assogba, avec la collaboration de Koffi R. Kékeh, Animation, participation et hydraulique villageoise en Afrique: Étude d’un exemple au Togo. Québec: Université Laval, Centre Sahel; Université du Québec à Hull; Université du Bénin à Lomé, septembre 1994, 128 pp. [Autorisation de diffuser ce livre dans Les Classiques des sciences sociales accordée par l’auteur le 14 août 2008.]

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Animation, participation et hydraulique villageoise
en Afrique:
Étude d’un exemple au Togo

Abstract

See here a book which brings a singular contribution to the theory and the practice of community development in the section of rural hydraulic in South Sahara Africa and in Togo particularly. The book analyses quantitatives and qualitatives data. The study is based on interactionist paradigm framework of a weberian type. The author shows the limited effects of popular education on the community participation during implementation of water project in rural villages of South Togo during the Décennie internationale de l'eau potable et de l'assainissement (DIEPA : 1980-1990).

The author explains these limited effects by the large stepping aside between rationale of decision makers and rationale of the beneficiaries of water project. In the final analysis the author shows that CUSO practises determinist community development like discourse during 1960-1970 years, but not interactionist community development like its discourse during 1980-1990 years.

In terme of practical use, the study suggest that the interactionist approach to the process of implementing development projects in Africa could reduce the nomber of failures.