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- Women and family poultry production in rural Africa
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The author discusses the importance of rural family poultry (RFP) in Africa as an income generating and/or subsistence asset for families, particularly highlighting the gender dimension of RFP, since women are often the main owners of, and carers for, chi ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:48
- Languages in lifelong education for Third World development
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Educational and societal development programmes in the Third World have paid too little attention to the facilitative and motivational merits of using indigenous languages. From primary education through to development activities among adults, the use of ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:05
- Heroism and ambiguity: NGO advocacy in international policy
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NGO advocacy is sometimes portrayed in a heroic light, but efforts to influence World Bank-supported economic policies confront considerable ambiguity. Influence is difficult to demonstrate, but advocacy should be more rigorously assessed in the interest ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:06
- Stepping Stones - a participatory tool to integrate gender into HIV/AIDS work
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Stepping Stones is a training package on HIV/AIDS, gender, communication, and relationship skills designed both for use in existing HIV/AIDS projects and more generally. Narrating her experience of a training of trainers programme in India, the author exp ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:06
- Innovations for sustainable development in cities of the South: the Habitat-Cuba approach
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Centralised housing provision has co-existed in Cuba with the widespread reliance on self-help approaches to meeting housing needs, though there has been no mechanism to articulate the two with each other. The author discusses ways in which to bring toget ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:07
- More effective natural resource management through democratically elected, decentralised government structures in Uganda
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Scaling up agroforestry adoption requires technical innovations that are adapted to the environment, demand-driven, require low capital and labour inputs, and provide tangible benefits in a short time. The basic inputs, usually information and germplasm, ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:46
- Beyond the `Grim Resisters': towards more effective gender mainstreaming through stakeholder participation
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Gender experts who formulate planning frameworks, and strategies for mainstreaming gender issues in organisational policies and programmes usually characterise non-expert policy makers and planners as either active resisters or passive implementers rather ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:08
- The learning process of the Local Capacities for Peace Project
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If aid is found to support a war effort, should aid agencies and practitioners continue to give it? The resounding answer given by aid workers all over the world is that the needs of suffering people are too important to ignore and, further, that there ca ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:09
- Microfinance and women's empowerment: A lesson from India
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This article describes an NGO project intended to empower scheduled caste women working in the silk-reeling industry in India through the provision of microfinance. It documents the impact that the project had on their economic and social status over a pe ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:09
- The indigenous evaluation of wetlands research in Ethiopia
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The adoption of participatory approaches has become virtually de rigueur in rural development projects, if only to satisfy donor demands for evidence of participation. Often, however, PRA and its derivatives are used in an extractive fashion and do not be ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:43
