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Community Development Journal Advance Access published online on March 4, 2009
Community Development Journal, doi:10.1093/cdj/bsp002
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Juxtaposing doers and helpers in development

Henry Mintzberg and Nidhi Srinivas

Address for correspondence: Henry Mintzberg, email: henry.mintzberg{at}mcgill.ca; Nidhi Srinivas, email: srinivan{at}newschool.edu

A classic part of the community development process is people facing an acute economic or social problem connecting with others specializing in conceptual solutions. For example, South Asian villagers confronting chronic poverty may work with non-governmental organizations offering micro-credit schemes. These are two sides of the development relationship, the doers and the helpers. While the doers face problems that are unique to themselves, the helpers offer solutions that tend to be generic, applicable to a variety of contexts. In this paper we seek to bring some conceptual clarity to the relationships between doers and helpers in development, with a focus on the social sector that operates between business and government. We present a typology of the organizational forms involved in development, and then look at the gaps between helpers and doers and the approaches used to bridge them.


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