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- Papers from a Symposium: Building Bridges in Southern Africa: Conflict, Reconstruction, and Reconciliation in Times of Change Preface
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This issue of Development in Practice contains twelve papers from the symposium, held in Johannesburg, South Africa 20-23 June 1996. The symposium, co-hosted by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) and the South Africa Office of ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:38
- Ambivalent messages: organisational purposes of NGOs and images of the South
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The author considers how Northern NGOs present the South, in order to recruit volunteers and fundraise. Negative and positive images have been used to illicit feelings of pity and self-satisfaction respectively. Here, the author describes the effects of u ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:58
- Editorial 8(4)
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In English only Author: Eade, Deborah Issue: V ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:59
- Fundraising in Brazil: the major implications for civil society organisations and international NGOs
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This paper looks at the opportunities for civil society organisations (CSOs) in Brazil to increase and diversify income. It demonstrates the range of potential new sources of funds, including the Brazilian public, commercial activities, and government ins ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:59
- Impact assessment of farmer institutional development and agricultural change: Soroti district, Uganda
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This article is based on participatory development research conducted in Soroti district of Uganda with the aim of assessing the impact of agricultural development among poor farmers. The central argument is that a combination of farmer empowerment and in ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:35
- Editorial 9(4)
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In English only Author: Eade, Deborah Issue: V ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:01
- Globalisation and women in India
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Describing the way globalisation has affected India over the last decade, the author considers the impact of these changes on women, in the main areas of `development' due to globalisation: commercialisation, capitalisation, foreign trade orientation, and ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02
- Blazing a trail while lazing around: knowledge processes and woodfuel paradoxes?
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Using autobiographical experience with reference to woodfuel research in two locations in West Africa, this paper illustrates how knowledge processes influence what can be produced as knowledge; how such knowledge is actually produced; and what is eventua ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:36
- NGOs and the dynamics of the Egyptian labour market
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This article discusses the role NGOs play, not in their traditional role as service providers, but as employers in the Egyptian labour market. Over the last two decades, NGOs have been offering attractive job opportunities to middle-class professionals wh ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:03
- Ambassatna Nadif: an experimental household-rubbish collection project
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In 1989 Oxfam approached the town council of N'Djamena, the capital of Chad, Africa, and set up a joint project to encourage community participation in improving sanitary conditions in Ambassatna. The author highlights the main problems and lessons to be ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:49
