This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. Reflection on this outcome by the agency led to important shifts in processes that are more supportive of freedom.

Essentially, they could hold the implementing agency to account. He’s credited as one of the founding fathers of modern social-choice theory with his landmark 1970 book, Collective Choice and Social Welfare.

Sen is both the first Indian and the first Asian to win the Nobel prize for economics. Over his 65-year career, Sen’s research and ideas have touched many areas of the field. One of the findings of these focus groups was that the participants valued the process because it opened a space for them to influence the work of the implementing NGO. According to 1998 Nobel prize winner, Amartya Sen, freedom is both the primary objective of development, and the principal means of development. This finding is the result of an emergent Action Learning process that was initiated by applying Sen’s principles to focus-group interviews with women who care for people affected by HIV and AIDS. Freedom is central to the process of development for both. It may help to examine and challenge those who hold power in development: the guardians. He thus defines development as a process of expanding the real freedoms that people enjoy (1999:3). The authors show that putting this approach into practice has important implications for the manner in which ‘development’ is undertaken as an ideological project.

An Action Learning process integrated with Sen’s Capability Approach can support development agencies to formulate interventions that enhance freedom. Amartya Sen is an important author, economist, and philosopher for anyone in human rights work to know, and his book Development as Freedom (1999) is a.

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