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Gender studies and gender training in Africa

The paper notes that there are substantial differences between women's studies/women in development and gender studies/gender and development. It suggests that the differences between women in development, and gender and development is such that the focus ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:39

Editorial 6(4)

In English only Author:  Eade, Deborah Issue:  V ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:56

Banking on the poor: Peru's small- and micro-enterprise sector

Sixty per cent of Peru's urban workforce is employed within the small and micro enterprises (SMEs) which account for 95 per cent of all business in the country's manufacturing, commercial, and service sectors. But in spite of credit needs of some US$ 1,25 ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:57

Commercial sex and the single girl: women's empowerment through economic development in Thailand

The author presents the views of Thailand's Population and Community Development Association (PDA - Thailand's largest NGO) about how to provide women attracted to the commercial sex industry (CSI) with economically viable alternatives to this accepted (i ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:58

Capacity-building: the making of a curry

Organisational capacity-building may be so focused on the hope for an improved future that it unwittingly fails to draw upon key learning from past experience. Reflection upon and public affirmation of those moments in organisational life when members fel ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:58

Editorial 14(3)

In English only. Author:  Eade, Deborah Issue:  ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:59

Matching services with local preferences: managing primary education services in a rural district of India

In India, the pressing concern in education is with bringing in at least 32 million children estimated to be out of school, to meet the goal of Universal Elementary Education. Support for decentralisation of public services is widespread because of the eq ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:59

Hearing silenced voices: developing community with an advisory committee

This article focuses on the challenge and effects of adhering to community participation as a principle of community development and the related issue of reflecting diverse representation in prevention and health promotion planning. As a requirement of fu ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:00

Security of tenure, development victims, and the limits of environmental impact assessment in Zimbabwe's communal lands

With specific reference to the case of granite mining in the Mutoko District in Zimbabwe, the author argues that while the state continues to hold rights to communal land, and freehold tenure is prohibited, Zimbabweans are being denied rights: in this cas ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:37

Kafka meets Machiavelli: post-war, post-transition Eastern Slavonia

As the agonising over `what next' for Kosovo and Serbia continues, Eastern Slavonia offers a transition experience and timescale from which we may learn. Each case is specific in historical and political terms, and in the nature of international intervent ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02