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- Re-defining community - state partnership in natural resource management: a case from India
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This article examines the role of state in the Joint Forest Management (JFM) programme in the northern province of Haryana in India. In the past two decades, significant developments pertaining to institutional reforms in promoting community - state partn ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:44
- Women targeted and women negated: an aspect of the environmental movement in Bangladesh
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In Bangladesh, government organisations and non-governmental organisations are implementing programmes and energy-saving projects in an effort to save the environment. This article examines such programmes in the specific area of improved stove technology ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:56
- A participatory approach to evaluating the impact of NGOs on development in Nepal
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This paper describes a technique used to evaluate an NGO support and development project in Nepal. The project has been operating since 2000 or before in five Districts of Nepal and has the primary objective of assisting NGOs to work more closely with t ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02
- Institutional evolution and the impact of training and communication in Joint Forest Management
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In 1999, with a view to strengthening the JFM arrangement, the Gujarat State Forest Department, in collaboration with the Aga Khan Foundation, initiated a nodal agency called the JFM cell. Its mandate is to assist in strengthening and expanding JFM in Guj ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:09
- Micro-insurance through corporate-NGO partnerships in West Bengal: opportunities and constraints
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This Practical Note examines the nascent micro-insurance sector in West Bengal, paying particular attention to the corporate–NGO partnership model for micro-insurance distribution, which has been enabled by India’s unique regulatory framewor ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-06-21 15:27
- Children's responses to risk in agricultural work in Andhra Pradesh, India
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This paper discusses protection of children from hazards in agricultural work. International and national policies aim to protect children by eliminating all child labour. Previous literature on hazardous child labour tends to focus on single industries ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-06-13 16:03
- Attacking social exclusion: combining rehabilitative and preventive approaches to leprosy in Bangladesh
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Based on primary research on the applicability of social exclusion frameworks to the experiences of people with leprosy in Bangladesh, this article compares two means of intervention: health education of society, and socio-economic rehabilitation of indiv ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:52
- A reply
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The author replies to Hasan Zaman's comments (in the same issue of the journal) about micro-credit organisations. Author: Rogaly, Ben ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:57
- Taking the power out of empowerment - an experiential account
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This article traces the centuries-long evolution of the concept and practice of empowerment, its adoption by radical social movements, especially women’s movements from the 1970s onwards, and its conversion, by the late 1990s, into a buzzword. Situating t ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:05
- Developing small production and marketing enterprises: mushroom contract farming in Bangladesh
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This article presents a case study of an activity implemented under the FAO component of the Local Partnerships for Urban Poverty Alleviation Project funded by UNDP in Bangladesh. In Mymensingh city the project is linking poor urban dwellers with a nich ...
Abstract - sally - 2009-10-20 16:01
