Subject(s): Economic development. -- Sustainable development. -- Rural development. -- Settlement schemes in tropical Africa, project pathology in Perkerra, development, agricultural settlement, commitment, continuity and creativity, irreversibility, Cinderella concepts -- Aid and administrative capacity : Administrative capacity as a scarce resource- aid and development, demand and administration, demand for administration, indirect administrative costs, administration sparing polices, polices and practices in aid, proliferation and fragmentation, capital trap, HIV/AIDS, managing staff and reducing demands, administrative capacity -- Procedures, principles and power : Procedure and principles to empower, SRDO experience, COP and PEPs -- Participation- review, reflections and future : managing local participation, applications, potentials and transformations -- PRA, participation and going to scale : Options for spread of PRA -- Behaviour, attitude and beyond : Capabilities, power, dominance, attitude of teachers, trainers and facilitators -- Future developments , transform , pro-poor realism