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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
- Abortion in the Developing World
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Author: Mundigo, Alex and Cynthia Indriso Issue: ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-07 16:51
- Diary of a participatory advocacy film project: transforming communication initiatives into living campaigns
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In August 2007, the Government of Tanzania committed to doubling the number of training places for skilled midwives following a five-year campaign by the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood in Tanzania (WRATZ), which culminated in the first televi ...
Abstract - sally - 2009-10-20 16:03
- The spatialisation of child protection: notes from the occupied Palestinian territory
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This paper considers the employment of spatialised practice within child protection efforts as pursued by humanitarian agencies. Starting from a brief overview of the genealogy of enclosure and separation within both humanitarianism and in relation to c ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-06-13 15:58
- Women, workers, and migrants in the globalised public health sector: debate at the 2004 International Labour Conference
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Total remittances from migrant workers (US$80bn in 2003) significantly outstrip the total amount of overseas development assistance (US$55bn in the same year). Many conclude that such remittances make a positive contribution to development in the global S ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:52
- 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
- In support of Where Women Have No Doctor
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The author gives personal feedback on a review of this publication (Development in Practice 8(3)). She argues that the reviewers' criticisms in respect to the book's treatment of abortion and intra-uterine contraceptive devices, and it's failure to consid ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:01
- Embracing marginality: place-making vs development in Gardenton, Manitoba
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Based on a two-year, multi-method study of ‘development’ in one small community in rural Manitoba, Canada, the article examines how the community and people’s reasons for living there have both changed and remained consistent since the beginning of the ar ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:07
- Neither silent nor invisible’: anti-poverty communication in the San Francisco Bay Area
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The communication practices of three US anti-poverty groups in the San Francisco Bay Area – Coalition on Homelessness, Poor News Network, and Media Alliance – are discussed whose communication strategies work for the recognition and rights o ...
Abstract - anna - 2009-10-01 16:47
- Children's Lifeworlds: Gender, Welfare, and Labour in the Developing World
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Author: Nieuwenhuys, Olga Issue: Volume 5, Nu ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-17 12:52
