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Population Policies Reconsidered: Health, Empowerment, and Rights

Author: Sen, Gita, Adrienne Germain, and Lincoln Chen (eds.) Issue: ...

Book review - admin - 2009-12-07 13:44

Churches, mosques, and condoms: understanding successful HIV and AIDS interventions by faith-based organisations

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

“Your kool-aid is not my kool-aid”: ideologies on microfinance within an INGO culture

Development investigations focus on synergies of institutional cultures for policy and practice. International non-governmental organisations (INGOs) currently enjoy a privileged position as harbingers of world culture unity. While there is contestation ...

Abstract - dwardle - 2012-08-16 10:18

Developing indicators to assess women's empowerment in Vietnam

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

Communication is not enough

The main purpose of extension work is to assist and encourage learning, and current thinking on the way adults learn suggests that the social context in which the learning takes place and the attitudes of the target group are as integral to their learning ...

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

The global struggle for the right to a place to live

The problem of inadequate housing and living conditions facing one quarter of the world's population is situated in this article within the framework of human rights, and of international recognition of the basic rights to a place to live, and to gain and ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:56

Participation, education and pluralism: towards a new extension ethic

The concern driving current debate on agricultural extension is increasingly that of what can be done to help farmers learn how to deal with the complex world around them responsibly and profitably, in such a way that the extension worker is ancillary. Th ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:03

Towards a policy framework for the empowerment of social movements

As they move from responding to needs and demands to a more rights-based approach, some French NGOs are rethinking both their areas of work and their ways of working. ‘Empowerment’ has become a key concept in this changing context, although it is sometime ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:08

Foreign Direct Investment for Development: Maximising Benefits, Minimising Costs