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Participatory development: an approach sensitive to class and gender

This article takes an experience from Irian Jaya to clarify the centrality of popular participation to development. It explores the ways in which a focus on class and gender takes participatory development to a new level; and considers how development age ...

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

The use of matrix scoring to identify systematic issues in country-programme evaluation

The author describes and assesses the use of matrix-scoring as a participatory evaluation tool. Often used as part of the Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) arsenal of tools, here the author applies it specifically to evaluating the performance of the Eu ...

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

Sustainable self-help development efforts in the Cameroon grassfields

It is argued that community development can contribute to national development, in conjunction with other phenomena. Village-level development efforts depend on the dynamism of community groups. The populations of the Cameroon grassfields possess the crea ...

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

The need for reliable systems: gendered work in Oxfam's Uganda programme

This paper looks at a Gender Review conducted for Oxfam GB of their programme in Uganda. The Review found that the programme lacked a coherent strategy and gender work was invariably considered an add-on rather than an integrated part of development plann ...

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

Developing indicators to assess women's empowerment in Vietnam

From mid-1999 to mid-2001, the authors carried out a qualitative study in rural Vietnam to explore relationships between gender equity and reproductive health. One of the study's objectives was to develop culturally appropriate indicators of women's empow ...

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

International NGOs and unions in the South: worlds apart or allies in the struggle?

In the early 1980s, support for trade unions was a significant component of Oxfam GB's programmes in various parts of the world, most notably Central America and South Africa. In Central America, this was motivated both because organised labour played an ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:01

Alternative microfinance institutions and vulnerability

The author argues, using the example of microfinance institutions, that it is essential to build genuinely solid and alternative institutions if development is to take its direction from the poor and vulnerable. He sets out his view of the characteristics ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:01

Can Business Development Services practitioners learn from theories on innovation and services marketing?

Business Development Services (BDS) programmes have become big business for international donors and NGOs. Focusing on small enterprises in developing countries, the current BDS approach revolves around the idea that the development of commercial markets ...

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

Risk Reduction and Society in the Twenty-first Century

This Conference Report presents the recommendations taken from a Summary Report of the South Asian Agenda Regional Meeting for South Asia, held in New Delhi, India in 1999. The event was convened by the Disaster Mitigation Institute (DMI) and supported by ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:03

Editorial 15(1)

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

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:03