Development Practitioners' Handbook

Uniquely, The Development Practitioners'(tm) Handbook views development from the point of view of the individual, the organisation, the community and society, as well as a living process in its own right, and explains where the development practitioner is best placed to pursue his or her work. Allan Kaplan outlines the illusive nature of development itself, in order to deepen and underpin the practice of development and to provide it with foundation and meaning.

Allan Kaplan is the Executive Director of the Community Development Resource Association (CDRA) in Cape Town. He has been an organisation development consultant since the mid-1980s, specialising in working with NGOs and community-based organisations across Southern Africa. The Community Development Resource Association is a consultancy NGO based in Cape Town and one of the most sucessful agencies to work successfully in both the old and new South Africa.