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This is a wonderful book of deep insight, sharp reflection and above all a renewed call to action. Robert Chambers is one of the great explorers of our age, brave enough to pass into new landscapes of thought and ideas, capable enough to explain how poor people could live their lives if only they had the opportunity.

Jules Pretty, Professor of Environment and Society, University of Essex

This is a fascinating and inspiring journey into participation, learning and social transformation. Chambers is a quintessential practitioner, thinker, learner and provocateur. I believe that this latest addition to Roberts collection will stimulate a new generation of development practitioners in an era of doom and gloom today.

Dr Rajesh Tandon, founder and President of Participatory Research in Asia

Robert Chambers introduces us to an art of exploratory rock climbing called development practice a practice that knows many teachers. Few, however, show the humour and self-reflexivity of Chambers in these profoundly humanist memoirs by a unique development practitioner.

Louk Box, former Rector of the International Institute of Social Studies, and a Distinguished Fellow at the University of South Africas Chair in Development Education

With his infectious optimism and lucid, insightful and often highly entertaining prose, Robert Chambers has given us yet another book that is set to become a classic. Of all his works, this is my favourite, not only for its reflexive engagement and for the inspiring example Robert gives us of looking for lessons from where things went wrong, but also for what it exhorts us to do: to engage our imaginations, our passions and our curiosity to create a better, fairer world.

Andrea Cornwall, Professor of Anthropology and International Development, University of Sussex, UK

A brilliant book. Robert Chambers draws on his personal journeys in rural development to provide searing insights into the pervasive blind spots and myths that hamper development efforts worldwide, and ways to overcome them. Into the Unknown will inspire both seasoned and burgeoning explorers in rural development and encourage them to find truer pathways forward.

Roberto Lenton, founding Executive Director, Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute, University of Nebraska

In this book, Robert Chambers refers to himself as an explorer and poignantly reflects on his incredible half-century career of exploration. Like other great explorers, Robert has opened new frontiers of knowledge, methodology, self-reflection and learning. In this latest book, he inspires and challenges other development practitioners also to become explorers not to follow his path, but to create their own paths towards a new 21st-century development project.

John Gaventa, Director, Coady International Institute, St Francis Xavier University, Canada, and Professor, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex

Practical Action Publishing Ltd

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Copyright Robert Chambers, 2014

ISBN 978-1-85339-822-3 Hardback

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The author has asserted his rights under the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as author of this work.

Chambers, R. (2014) Into the Unknown: Explorations in Development Practice, Rugby, UK: Practical Action Publishing

< http://dx.doi.org/10.3362/9781780448220 >.

Since 1974, Practical Action Publishing has published and disseminated books and information in support of international development work throughout the world. Practical Action Publishing is a trading name of Practical Action Publishing Ltd (Company Reg. No. 1159018), the wholly owned publishing company of Practical Action. Practical Action Publishing trades only in support of its parent charity objectives and any profits are covenanted back to Practical Action (Charity Reg. No. 247257, Group VAT Registration No. 880 9924 76).

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Contents

PART I:
Exploring experience

PART II:
Exploring learning

PART III:
Into the new unknown

About the author

Professor Robert Chambers is a research associate of the Institute of Development Studies, at the University of Sussex, UK, which has been his base since 1969 with periods in other countries. His educational background is in natural sciences, history and public administration. His main administrative and research experience in development has been in East Africa and South Asia. Among other work he has been a field administrator and trainer of administrators in Kenya and East Africa, a field researcher in Kenya, India and Sri Lanka, an evaluation officer with UNHCR and a project specialist with the Ford Foundation in India.

Books he has written include Rural Development: Putting the Last First (1983), Challenging the Professions (1993), Whose Reality Counts? Putting the First Last (1997), Participatory Workshops (2002), Ideas for Development (2005), Revolutions in Development Inquiry (2008) and Provocations for Development (2012). His current work and interests include participatory methodologies; participation, power and complexity; professional perceptions and the realities of poverty and well-being; and going to scale with community-led total sanitation.

Abbreviations and acronyms

CGIAR	Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research
CIAT	International Centre for Tropical Agriculture
CLTS	community-led total sanitation
COP	community of practice
DFID	Department for International Development (UK)
ICRISAT	International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-arid Tropics
IDS	Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK
IIED	International Institute for Environment and Development
IIMI	International Irrigation Management Institute
INGO	international non-governmental organization

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