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Staff from the Twaweza initiative and SNV travelled to rural communities in northern Tanzania in order to understand what development means on the ground and how people make change happen. Rakesh Rajani describes their experience and how it challenges normative conceptions about development and lives among poor communities.
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Cathy Kell and Lindsay Morgan made significant contributions in analyzing the field notes and writing this article.
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Describes how taking into account lives of rural communities challenges pre-conceptions about development
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Rajani, R. Bridging a Thousand Miles: Development on the ground in the Lake Zone of Tanzania. Development 53, 394–401 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2010.55
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2010.55