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- Decentralised transformative leadership approaches to HIV/AIDS in Nepal 2002-2004
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This article analyses a decentralised transformative leadership pilot project launched by the UNDP to combat the growing HIV/AIDS crisis in Nepal. The project aims to strengthen district leadership and participatory multi-sector planning, clarify the dist ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 16:44 - 0 attachments
- Bhutan: a review of its approach to sustainable development
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The Royal Kingdom of Bhutan has not only a unique national environment but provides researchers with an opportunity to observe effective development in a relatively uncomplicated and controlled system that is government-led rather than donor-driven. This ...
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- What difference can they make? Assessing the social impact of corporate codes of practice
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As retailers in the North increasingly adopt codes of practice containing social and/or environmental provisions in global supply chains, there is a need for rigorous assessment of their social impact. Moving beyond the rhetoric, it is important to establ ...
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- Attacking social exclusion: combining rehabilitative and preventive approaches to leprosy in Bangladesh
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Based on primary research on the applicability of social exclusion frameworks to the experiences of people with leprosy in Bangladesh, this article compares two means of intervention: health education of society, and socio-economic rehabilitation of indiv ...
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- Scaling up NGO impact on development: learning from experience Authors: Michael Edwards and David Hulme
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Despite their increasing numbers and size, the impact of NGO activity on development is usually localised and often transitory. In consequence, NGOs need to analyse the strategies by which they may be able to `scale up' their contribution to development. ...
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- The acceptability of immunisation in Somalia: What role does the community play in designing programme strategies?
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As part of the global drive to achieve Universal Child Immunisation by l990 (UCI9O), Somalia launched a national immunisation programme for women and children. While access to it improved, actual demand for immunisation remained low. This paper reports th ...
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- North-South relations and the question of aid
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The author gives a personal view describing the inequalities inherent in current global socio-economic and political arrangements. He identifies training, employment and allocation of development funds as issues fostering inequality between North and Sout ...
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- The role of NGOs in the democratisation and reconstruction process
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The 1994 World University Service annual conference, held at the London School of Economics in March 1994, discussed the role of northern NGOs in the processes of democratisation and reconstruction in developing societies. The participants considered the ...
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- Doing primary research in a developing economy
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In 1992 and 1993 fieldwork was done in the Eastern Region of Ghana to examine why hybrid cocoa, introduced by cocoa institutions, was adopted by some farmers and not others. This report discusses the problems encountered when collecting data, including th ...
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- Training for urban development
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Academic urban development training programs tend to either train in town planning, where the focus is on the production of plans, or in urban studies, where the focus is on the development of urban areas; there is a need, the author argues, for training ...
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