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Engaging elite support for the poorest? BRAC's Targeted Ultra Poor programme for rural women in Bangladesh

This article draws preliminary lessons from the experience of engaging village elites in support of a BRAC programme for ultra-poor women in rural Bangladesh. It describes the origins, aims, and operation of this programme, which provides comprehensive li ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:05

Participation via collective action in basic education in government and NGO schools in Pakistan

Parent teacher associations or school management committees (PTAs/SMCs) are an important way of realising participation via collective action to improve schooling. Field visits, a literature search and a small sample survey are the three sources used to e ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:10

Learning in Social Action: A Contribution to Understanding Informal Education

Author: Foley, Griff Issue: Volume 10, Number ...

Book review - admin - 2009-12-09 19:50

Development in States of War

Edited by: Eade, Deborah Humanitarian relief has always been focused on meeting the needs of people affected by war and armed conflict. ...

Book - anna - 2009-12-21 12:45

Global priorities against local context: protecting Bhutanese refugee children in Nepal

This paper explores how the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR) global priorities and strategies for refugee girls and boys are applied in long-term Bhutanese refugee camps in Nepal. It examines UNHCR's interventions to prevent and re ...

Abstract - dwardle - 2012-06-13 16:02

A meeting about women and reproductive health in Latin America and the Caribbean

The author reports on the Latin America and Caribbean Women and Health Network of Isis International's working meeting in October 1991, held in Santiago, Chile. The meeting produced guidelines for the women's health movement on abortion, AIDS, teenage pre ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:53

A tribal welfare project in Tamil Nadu

The Nilgiris Adivasi Welfare Association (NAWA) was founded in 1958, in Tamil Nadu, India, to work for the integrated welfare of the six Nilgiri tribes, all displaced and dispersed by the invasion of their forest homelands by incoming non-tribal peoples. ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:55

Prescription for underdevelopment

The authors respond to some of the criticisms of Where Women Have No Doctor (Development in Practice 8(3)). They argue that, far from it being dangerous to give medical information to low-literacy, untrained people, the reverse, i.e. no information at all ...

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

Community development: Freire and Grameen in the Barrowfield Project, Glasgow, Scotland

This article is an attempt to examine one of the better-known failures in UK community development – the Barrowfield Project in Glasgow (1986–1996) – and to compare and contrast it with other attempts at community development, especially some associated w ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:07

A World Turned Upside Down: Social Ecological Approaches to Children in War Zones