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- Female volunteers: An asset to the reproductive health sector in rural Cambodia
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The results of a field study examined in this article show the remarkable success of a reproductive health education and community outreach project in Cambodia that has been implemented by the Ministry of Women's and Veterans' Affairs since 1995, in terms ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:10
- The Multidimensional Poverty Assessment Tool: a new framework for measuring rural poverty
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The Multidimensional Poverty Assessment Tool (MPAT) measures fundamental dimensions of rural poverty in order to support poverty-alleviation efforts in the less developed world. This article’s primary purpose is to introduce MPAT and describe its ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2010-11-07 21:01
- Developing indicators to assess women's empowerment in Vietnam
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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
- Churches, mosques, and condoms: understanding successful HIV and AIDS interventions by faith-based organisations
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There are an estimated 33 million people living with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) worldwide. While national education campaigns have been successful in providing a broad platform of awareness of HIV and AIDS, within some countries faith-based ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-06-06 16:25
- Health programs for the disadvantaged: a psychosocial approach to barriers in the community
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The implementation of health programmes by external health professionals (`givers') in disadvantaged communities (`receivers') faces a variety of interactional barriers, some of which can be appreciated within the framework of the doctor-patient relations ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:53
- Learning for capacity development: a holistic approach to sustained organisational change
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This article describes a holistic approach to organisational development that promotes learning and its integration into everyday work practice. It presents the approach and how it leads to genuine organisational transformation, increased organisational ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-08-16 10:13
- Health and hygiene behaviour change: bottom-up meets top-down in Tibet
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The Tibet Poverty Alleviation Fund (TPAF) has been working in the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China since 1998 to increase the income and assets of rural Tibetans. From the beginning TPAF recognised that high morbidity and ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:54
- Environmental leadership training for Asia
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There was a split between North and South over environmental issues at the 1992 Earth Summit. A similar rift may re-emerge as British ODA opens management of its training programmes to competition in 1993. Emerging environmental training institutions in A ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:54
- 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
- Commercial sex and the single girl: women's empowerment through economic development in Thailand
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The author presents the views of Thailand's Population and Community Development Association (PDA - Thailand's largest NGO) about how to provide women attracted to the commercial sex industry (CSI) with economically viable alternatives to this accepted (i ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:58
