Abstract:
This report was the outcome of a meeting between Owen G. Glenn, two of the authors (Dr Yvonne Underhill-Sem and Dr Ward Friesen), and a liaison person from the School of Business (Geoff Whitcher) in early 2008. On the occasion of the opening of the Owen G. Glenn Building, the new home of the School of Business at The University of Auckland, to which the Glenn Family Foundation (GFF) had made a substantial contribution, Owen G. Glenn requested a meeting with the authors to discuss the possibility of a study of development projects which the GFF was undertaking in India. Following that meeting, a study was commissioned by GFF to be carried out through the Development Studies programme at The University of Auckland to assess the village development work that GFF has been carrying out in the Kalimpong area in the Himalayan foothills in the north of West Bengal. The purpose of this study was to examine the projects in relation to broader development principles and practices.
