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Indigenous organizations are local-level institutions with a community base, such as women's groups, ethnic associations, traditional religious groups, and a wide variety of other social groups.
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Part 1 Africa: The drum speaks - are we listening? experiences in development with traditional Gabra institutions - The Yaa Galbo, B.J. Linquist with David Adolph; traditional settlement, cultural identity and rural development in the Transkei, Patrick A. McAllister; hometown associations - balancing local and extralocal interests in Nigerian communities, Michael L. McNulty and Mark F. Lawrence; indigenous organizations and development - the case of Ara, Nigeria, D. Michael Warren, Remi Adedokun and Akintola Omolaoye; the Ogbomoso Parapo - a case-study of an indigenous development association in Nigeria, G.O. Kolawole; community development associations and self-reliance - the case of Isalu community development union, Iseyin, Nigeria, Bolanle W. Wahab; the importance of indigenous organizations to the sustainability of contemporary Yoruba strip-weaving industries in Iseyin, Nigeria, Norma H. Wolff and Bolanle W. Wahab; traditional leadership and community management in Northern Ghana, Nancy Cosway and Steve A. Anankum; indigenous healer associations and a South African AIDS-prevention project, Edward C. Green and Bongie Zokwe. Part 2 Indian sub-continent: History of an indigenous community management organization in Nepal, Durga Pokhrel and Anthony B.J. Willet; building on the Panchayat - using Jal Samitis in Uttar Pradesh, Yogesh Kumar; informal institutions of financial intermediation - social value of Vishis, chit funds and self-help groups, Tushaar Shah and Michael Johnson; taking count of the depth of the ditches - understanding local organization forms, their problems and strategic responses Nidhi Srinivas. Part 3 Australia and New Zealand: Aboriginal agenda or agency agenda? community-development planning projects in Australia, Jackie Wolfe-Keddie; Yolngu rom - indigenous knowledge in North Australia, Ian Hughes; community development among the New Zealand Maori - the Tainui case, Toon van Meijl. Canada: indigenous organizations for development in the Canadian North - native development corporation, Leo Paul Dana. China: the role of indigenous organizations in the rural development of China - a case-study of a non-farm productive activity, Li Xiaoyun, Li Ou and Zhou Shengkun. Indonesia: using indigenous organizations from West Kalimantan, Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Reed L. Wadley and Enis Widjanarti. Philippines: personal networks and agricultural extension in the Philippines, Ricardo C. Armonia.
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From 2008 to November 2011, Peter Blunt held a senior (level GH) staff position with the World Bank in Jakarta, as programme manager of the multi-donor Decentralisation Support Facility that is supporting the government's programme of decentralisation. He is a consultant specialising in governance and public sector management in developing countries. He is currently a Freelance consultant at Blunt and Associates P/L, Sydney, Australia. Professor Dennis Michael Warren was an anthropologist and leading Africanist scholar who taught at Iowa State University from 1972 to1997. Professor Warren was especially interested in indigenous knowledge and rural development in Africa. His interest in indigenous knowledge led him to the study of art, culture, the rural economy and traditional healing in Ghana and Nigeria and to comparative studies of other societies
