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- Measuring development results: lessons from Ethiopia
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As agências de desenvolvimento enfrentam o desafio de medir e relatar os resultados de suas contribuições para promover o desenvolvimento equitativo e sustentável. Como parte disso, as agências fazem previsões amb ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-05-15 10:10
- Factors and motivations contributing to community volunteers’ participation in a nursery feeding project in Malawi
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This article reports on a study to explore the factors and motivations that contribute to community volunteers’ participation in a nursery feeding project in Malawi. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with community volunteers in 15 of the 32 site ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:35
- Between a Rock and a Hard Place: African NGOs, Donors and the State
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Author: Igoe, Jim and Kelsall, Tim (eds.) Publisher: Durham, NC: Carolina Acad ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:57
- Designing food security projects: Kapchorwa and Bukwo, Uganda
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Food security is a key aspect of human development. The present article explores the shortcomings of agricultural interventions in two districts in eastern Uganda. Our study shows that these interventions have achieved only minor successes in relieving ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-05-15 10:11
- From mouthpiece to public service: donor support to radio broadcasters in new democracies
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The radio can help to stimulate better governance. However, state-run broadcasting organisations in the South are usually ill-prepared for their public-service role in new democracies. They are often poorly funded compared to their new, commercial rival ...
Abstract - anna - 2009-10-01 16:52
- The State They're In: An Agenda for International Action on Poverty in Africa
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Author: Lockwood, Matthew Publisher: London: ITDG Publishing, 2005, ISBN:18533 ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:57
- Rethinking poverty alleviation: a 'poverties' approach
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This article argues that the practice of poverty alleviation is greatly limited by a vision of poverty that fails to capture the locally specific causes of and solutions to the challenges that threaten human well-being. This problematic vision of poverty ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:34
- Pentecostalism and development in Kibera informal settlement, Nairobi
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This article outlines one of the activities organised by an international Evangelical faith-based development organisation (FBDO) working in the Kibera informal settlement, an area that attracts large numbers of development practitioners, including FBDO ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-07-12 13:38
- African Perspectives on China in Africa
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Author: Manji, Firoze and Stephen Marks Publisher: Nairobi and Oxford: Fahamu, ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-10 09:20
- Non-state providers, the state, and health in post-conflict fragile states
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Relations between states and non-state providers in fragile states occur within specific complex political and economic contexts. Moreover, donor approaches to specific fragile states shape the flow and priorities of aid resources. In the health sector, ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2010-06-23 16:12
