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- Ni Vanuatu women graduates: what happens when they go home?
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Part of New Zealand’s aid to Pacific Island nations is in the form of tertiary scholarships. Students awarded scholarships study at tertiary institutions throughout the Pacific, including New Zealand. But what is it like when they return home, fitting bac ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:03
- ‘Bread and butter’ human rights: NGOs in Fiji
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While ‘rights-based’ approaches to development – those in which development and poverty alleviation are viewed through the lens of human rights – have become the language of choice among the international development community, l ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2010-11-07 19:31
- Working at the intersection--a story from Australia
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Conceived by nurses in the hospital of a Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, and inspired by Norwegian People's Aid, the international aid agency of the Australian trade unions was designed to give a genuine material base to solidarity with national liber ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:01
- Women's groups for whom? The colonisation of women's groups in Papua New Guinea
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Women's groups in Papua New Guinea, often under the influence of colonial and church governance in the past, still have an ambiguous function which serves to isolate women and `women's issues' rather than spread gender sensitivity. The author concludes th ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:05
- Editorial 21.7
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This is a good issue. Wahey. Author: Wardle, Debs Author: Wardle ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-11-29 12:40
- How can small donors contribute to sustainable development in large regions? The case of NZAID in Latin America
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Donors face many issues when trying to support development goals in large regions such as Latin America. In their attempts to channel assistance to appropriate end-users, they also have to provide coherence with national strategy, balance supply and deman ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:01
- Stakeholders' perceptions within a farming systems aid project:
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Communication among stakeholders within international aid projects has long been recognised as problematic. The authors interviewed five different stakeholders on a Chinese-Australian project to explore whether (a) stakeholders have exclusive worldviews; ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:06
- Editorial (21.7)
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At whatever level we are working, or researching, it is probably a truism that development is a slow business. Recently a UN official said to me that there is no appetite for longer term solutions to the socio-political structural issues which maintain ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-11-29 14:45
- `Marriage' to capital: the fallback positions of Fiji's women garment workers
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The May 2000 coup in Fiji prompted a flight of capital from the country's garment industry. As workers lost their jobs, attention turned away from improving wages and conditions to retaining garment factory jobs in the country. What can feminist researche ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:00
- What price agricultural productivity? pesticides and the health of sugar farmers in Fiji:
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Many farmers in less developed countries (LDCs) lack comprehensive information detailing the acute and chronic health impacts of pesticide use. Even at low levels, the use of pesticides can have significant chronic health implications. The results of rese ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:07
