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- Reflections on relationships: the nature of partnership according to five NGOs in southern Mexico
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This article is based on interviews with several staff members of NGOs located in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, regarding partnerships between them and their funding sources, such as foundations or agencies of the North that do or support ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:05
- Multi-lateral agencies and NGOs in the context of policy reform
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This article examines the growth in relations that have occurred between Multilateral Agencies and Non-Governmental Organisations during the past decade. It identifies three substantive debates in the MLAs on participatory development, value for money and ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:53
- Rural development and migration in Mexico
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This article analyses one of the causes of migration in rural Mexico through the lens of US foreign assistance policy. US aid to Mexico – the largest migrant-sending country to the USA by far – does not sufficiently take into account the con ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2013-04-30 12:07
- Banking on the poor: Peru's small- and micro-enterprise sector
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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
- Capacity building: who builds whose capacity?
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This article focuses on the role that development NGOs play in capacity building, arguing that many conventional NGO practices are ultimately about retaining power, rather than empowering their partners. This leads to tunnel vision and to upward rather th ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:06
- Working with streetchildren
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In September 1990 we became involved with the Centre for the Defence of the Child (CDM) in Brazil, with a view to participating in a survey into the lives of streetchildren that was being conducted by the group. The CDM is a branch of its parent organisat ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:53
- Sustainability is not about money!: the case of the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry
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With specific reference to the BCCI, the author argues that equating sustainability with financial self-sufficiency can lead development organisations to sacrifice or compromise their development work in order to generate revenue. The BCCI was funded by U ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:57
- International NGOs and unions in the South: worlds apart or allies in the struggle?
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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
- Advocacy in the Amazon and the Camisea gas project: implications for non-government public action
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The article considers international advocacy concerning the exploitation of gas reserves in an area inhabited by an isolated indigenous group in Peru, the Machigengua. Considerable international advocacy activity was centred mainly in Washington, DC. Poor ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:07
- An education programme for peasant women in Honduras
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This paper introduces the PAEM, a programme working with Christian women in the rural parishes of Santa Barbara, Colon, Comayagua, Intibuca, and Lempira, all departments of Honduras. PAEM has a number of overall aims, which include to bringing together th ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:53
