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- Community health workers – motivation and incentives
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The Community Health Worker (CHW) literature is expansive, covering more than 30 years of interest in the concept. Despite this, understanding of CHW motivation and the effectiveness of monetary incentives is limited. Using self-determination theory (SD ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2013-04-30 11:57
- Public resistance to privatisation in water and energy
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Since the 1990s, development agencies and international institutions have promoted private-sector involvement in infrastructure, assuming that this would inject both investment and efficiency into the under-performing public sector. In the water and energ ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:48
- The Nicaraguan Literacy Crusade: how lasting were its benefits?
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In 1981, Nicaragua was awarded UNESCO's Nadezhda K Krupskaya prize in recognition of the success of the 1980 National Literacy Crusade (CNA) through which, it was claimed, three quarters of the country's illiterate had been taught to read and write. This ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:54
- SatelLife - linking information and people: the last ten centimetres
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SatelLife was set up by the organisation International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) in 1985, with the aim of providing a forum for the involvement of medical colleagues in the South in discussion of health and peace issues. SatelLi ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:58
- The psycho-social effects of conflict in the Third World
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In current armed conflicts around the world, over 90 per cent of casualties are civilians. This article reviews medical and anthropological evidence of the psychosocial effects of extreme experiences such as torture, mutilation, rape, and the violent disp ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:04
- Towards human development: impact assessment of a micro-development intervention in Western India
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This paper seeks to understand the human development potential of a lift-irrigation scheme introduced by a development NGO in Western India. In particular, it focuses on the ways in which this micro-level intervention has been able to create conditions fo ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:10
- Readers from Development in Practice
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Author: Kothari, Rajni Issue: Volume 10, Numb ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-17 13:07
- Re-thinking the integration of women in population development initiatives
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This article argues that the integration of women in population development initiatives were largely the outcome of four overlapping historical events: the decolonisation of the South; the population ‘explosion’ following World War II; the m ...
Abstract - sally - 2009-10-20 15:57
- Introduction: development, children, and protection
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This paper introduces the special issue. It first places the protection of children in the context of development studies. It goes on to outline current international trends in the protection of children and raises questions about them. Finally, it intr ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-06-13 15:54
- Everyday practices of humanitarian aid: tsunami response in Sri Lanka
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This paper underlines the importance of grounding the analysis of humanitarian aid in an understanding of everyday practice by presenting and discussing ethnographic vignettes about three aspects of aid response in Sri Lanka following the 2004 Tsunami. Th ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:52
