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- Hanging in, stepping up and stepping out: livelihood aspirations and strategies of the poor
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In recent years understanding of poverty and of ways in which people escape from or fall into poverty has become more holistic. This should improve the capabilities of policy analysts and others working to reduce poverty, but it also makes analysis more ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:52
- Editorial 2(3)
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In English only Author: Eade, Deborah Issue: V ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:53
- The International People's Health Council
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A conference of health-rights activists was held in Nicaragua in 1991, the theme of which was `Health Care in Societies in Transition'. The participants, in response to concerns that health care is being eroded by the widening gap between rich and poor, d ...
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- Community-based rehabilitation and development: disabled children in Guyana
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This article examines the challenge facing the rehabilitation of disabled persons, particularly children, as we approach the end of the twentieth century. The potential of a community-based model of rehabilitation is considered in the light of experience ...
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- Redefining the role of environmental NGOs in Africa
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The article summarises issues identified in a study undertaken on behalf of the HIVOS Foundation of the Netherlands and the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs Development Division, which included a field study of 45 environmental NGOs in seven Africa ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:39
- Who is the expert?
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This is an account of the author's experience as an adviser in the Education Ministry of the Lao People's Democratic Republic. The article looks critically at the role of the foreign `expert', the contexts in which such expertise is provided or even impos ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:55
- The World Bank derogates women's rights: outcomes from Beijing
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The World Bank claims to have become the defender of women's rights, urging national governments to 'invest more in women in order to reduce gender inequality and boost economic development'. Through its Women in Development Programme (WID), adopted throu ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:56
- Recovering the future: grandmothers campaigning for human rights
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The author reports on the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo (the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo), working actively in Argentina to discover the whereabouts of the desaparacidos, the children who were abducted by the military regime of the 1970s to early `80s. T ...
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- South African NGOs and the trials of transition
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The post-election period in South Africa has been marked by trials for the NGO sector, in spite of its pivotal role in the anti-apartheid struggle. The article explores certain developments within the NGO sector, and between the NGOs and the government, t ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:38
- 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 ...
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