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- Community sustainable-development indicators: a useful participatory technique or another dead end?
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This article undertakes a critical re-evaluation of a DFID-funded project in South Africa which ran between 1998 and 2001. The evaluation sought to test whether the development of community-led indicators would improve governance. Since the project ended, ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:36
- International volunteering for development and sustainability: outdated paternalism or a radical response to globalisation?
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This article discusses the history and evolution of international volunteer-sending agencies and volunteers as a response not only to symptoms but also to causes of global poverty and inequality. It considers how international volunteers might be defined, ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:09
- Drawing Development: Analysing local understandings of development in three Andean communities
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This article shows how local understandings of development can be researched empirically by reference to experiences presented from three drawing workshops performed with children in the Ayacucho region in the Peruvian Andes. The children were asked to dr ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:09
- The role of horizontal networks in microfinance impact monitoring and assessment
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This paper draws on five case studies to explore potential benefits and barriers to horizontal networking to promote impact monitoring and assessment of microfinance. Its main aim is to stimulate further discussion of this issue, but it also draws tentati ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:10
- `The Sword of Justice': South Pacific trade unions and NGOs during a decade of lost development
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Trade unions are typified as having `two faces'--one of social justice and the other of vested interest. This article examines the tensions and difficulties confronted by trade union movements in the South Pacific seeking to balance the `two faces' of uni ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:11
- Self-determination in practice: the critical making of indigenous media
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The article examines the notion of development as self-determination in the context of current politicisation of indigenous peoples’ affairs. It looks at the links between development studies, indigenous social movements, and community media pract ...
Abstract - anna - 2009-10-01 16:58
- Child welfare and the UNHCR: a case for pre-resettlement refugee parenting education
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Very little is known about the ecology of the refugee parenting experience in pre-resettlement contexts. This article presents research that is part of a larger study seeking to explain why refugee parents are appearing in the South Australian child pro ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-02-27 18:09
- Gold mining and corporate social responsibility in the Wassa West district, Ghana
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Despite a boom in gold mining in Ghana's Wassa West district (WWD), unemployment and poverty have deepened, partly due to loss of farmland to surface mining but more so because of the limited opportunities for wage employment in the district's 'revived' ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2010-05-04 15:53
- Where there’s no green man: child road-safety education in Ethiopia
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Traffic crashes kill 1.2 million people annually, and the number is growing fast, particularly in developing countries. Although child road-safety education is widely considered important, few programmes have resulted in demonstrated improvements in saf ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2010-11-05 14:10
- Editorial (21.1)
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On 1 July 2010, INTRAC (the International NGO Training and Research Centre) took over the editorship of Development in Practice, with myself as Editor-in-Chief. In the issues published since then, we have been handling the content that was carefully cra ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-06-06 14:52
