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Volume 5, Numéro 4

• Editorial
  • Editorial 5(4)
    Eade, Deborah
• Articles
  • Combler l'écart entre `macro' et `micro' dans la recherche sur les stratégies politiques: deux expériences africaines
    Booth, David
  • Communication et intervention: une vue sur la politique `longhouse' en Sarawak, Malaysia Orientale
    Ngidang, Dimbab
  • Quelle place pour les ONG? Le développement d'une politique pour le secteur santé
    Green, Andrew; Matthias, Ann
  • Bâtiments de santé au niveau du village en Ouganda et en Sierra Leone
    Mitchell, Maurice
• Point de Vue
  • The Decade of the African Child
    Schuftan, Claudio
  • Adjusting health care: the case of Nicaragua
    Centro de Informacíon y Servicios de Asesoría en Salud (CISAS)
  • Help yourself by helping The Poor
    Lofredo, Gino
• Notes Pratiques
  • Widows' and orphans' property disputes: the impact of AIDS in Rakai District, Uganda
    Roys, Chris
• Notes Techniques
  • Assisting survivors of war and atrocity: notes on `psycho-social' issues for NGO workers
    Summerfield, Derek
  • Using Geographical Information Systems for decision-support in national development planning
    Connor, Stephen J.
• Rapport de Conférence
  • The World Conference on Sustainable Tourism
    Hampton, Mark
• Commentaires
  • Some thoughts on gender and culture
    Mukhopadhyay, Maitrayee
  • Small and medium-sized enterprise and the development of local technology
    Grierson, John
• Synthèses de Recherche
  • Household coping strategies in Kyrgyzstan
    Howell, Jude
• Critiques de Livres

Widows' and orphans' property disputes: the impact of AIDS in Rakai District, Uganda

Roys, Chris

A survey in the Rakai District in 1989 put the number of orphans at 25,000; by 1991 a population census counted 44,000, a growth the author attributes to the AIDS pandemic. The Child Social Care Project (CSCP) in Rakai works with widows and orphans to address their property rights, seeking to reduce the vulnerability of women and children under both customary and statutory law. The author discusses the work of the Project, and advocates continued processes of education and sensitisation to change attitudes, accompanied by legal reform. This article also appears in the Development in Practice Reader [13]Development for Health.

Mots clés: Genre et diversité sociale; Secteur social; Travail et moyens de subsistence; Droits humains; Sub-Saharan Africa

   

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