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- Combining worker and user interests in the health sector: trade unions and NGOs
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This paper examines the relationship between workers in the health sector and users of health services as seen through two case studies of trade unions and NGOs working together, one in Malaysia and the other in South Africa. In spite of a history of tens ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:42
- Negotiating power: community media, democracy, and the public sphere
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Given the centrality of communication to society, who ‘owns’ the media, who gets to speak on behalf of whom, and to what end are critical issues. The regression of ‘mainstream’ media from ‘watchdogs’ of democracies to ...
Abstract - anna - 2009-10-01 16:43
- Cooperation in aquaculture rehabilitation and development in Aceh, Indonesia
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Post-tsunami rehabilitation and reconstruction activities in Aceh have been criticised as focussing on vertical reporting at the expense of lateral coordination, leading in some cases to ‘overlaps and redundancies, mis-targeting and hastily planne ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-02-27 18:06
- 'Communities of practice': prospects for theory and action in participatory development
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'The myth of community' permeates both the understanding and the practice of participatory development. Yet the idea that communities exist as coherent units of people who inhabit bounded geographic spaces and are ready to be mobilised for development r ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2010-05-04 15:51
- A rural economic development plan to help the USA win its war on cocaine
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Since the 1980s, the USA has fought cocaine in the Andes with carrots and sticks: interdiction and crop eradication wield the sticks, while Alternative Development (AD), which offers economic assistance to farmers who voluntarily abandon illicit cultiva ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2010-11-05 13:57
- Acknowledgements
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The following individuals served as referees for articles received or published in 2010, or supported us in other ways. Kiikpoye Aaron Haleh Afshar Kwame Akyeampong Bryant Allen Ghartey Ampiah Marta Arango Colin Bangay Owen Barder Re ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2010-11-09 12:58
- Index-based livestock insurance for Kenyan pastoralists: an innovation systems perspective
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Pastoralists in northern Kenya live with a high level of risk, including climatic shocks, disease, and insecurity. This article considers the potential role of index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) as a mechanism which pastoralists can use to manage cl ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-05 15:34
- Revisiting the impact of economic crisis on Indonesian agro-food production
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This article discusses the impact of the ongoing global economic crisis on the Indonesian agro-food sector. It compares the current situation with the crisis of 1997–98 and examines whether the liberalisation of the Indonesian economy (and the agr ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-16 10:11
- Social Network Analysis to evaluate organisational networks on sexual health and rights
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There are many challenges in evaluating international networks. The use of conventional tools can be difficult and often provides less than useful information. Social Network Analysis offers benefits for network evaluators by allowing for documentation ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-02-07 13:13
- Practical innovations for strengthening Community-Led Total Sanitation: selected experience from Asia
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While Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) is a relative success in a growing number of countries, there are also difficulties in assuring all community members can build and use toilets. This paper draws on experiences of IRC International Water and S ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-05-14 17:03
