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- Institutional change: the unanticipated consequences of action
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This article argues that the managerial approaches to development need to be reconstituted through a more comprehensive understanding of how institutional and behavioural change processes occur. Drawing from a case study in Nepal, and by exploring the l ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2010-11-09 12:51
- 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
- Hearing silenced voices: developing community with an advisory committee
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This article focuses on the challenge and effects of adhering to community participation as a principle of community development and the related issue of reflecting diverse representation in prevention and health promotion planning. As a requirement of fu ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:00
- Evaluating HIV/AIDS programmes
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The ultimate objective of any AIDS/HIV intervention project is to reduce the spread of AIDS by promoting safer sexual behaviour. It is misleading to evaluate individual projects in terms of their success in achieving this because behavioural changes are i ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:53
- The right to protection from sexual assault: the Indian anti-rape campaign
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The author discusses her involvement, as a member of the Indian Women's Movement (IWM), in campaigning for increased protection under Indian law for women, and children, from sexual assault of any kind. The law at present has large gaps in it, and is form ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:56
- An Intellectual history of the United Nations
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The United Nations Intellectual History Project (UNIHP) is an independent activity located at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Originally concentrating on the economic and social arena, it was intended to include peace and security ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:03
- Counting the cost of HIV and AIDS to civil-society organisations
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HIV threatens the survival of many civil-society organisations (CSOs) in Africa. While we know the range of potential costs to such groups, we lack a detailed picture of the extent of the impact. This article highlights important findings from exploratory ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:36
- The Right to Education Denied: Costs and Remedies
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Author: Tomasevski, Katarina Publisher: London: Zed Books, 2003, ISBN: 1 84277 ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:49
- Right to Choose: Pioneers in Women's Health and Family Planning
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Author: Huston, Perdita Issue: Volume 3, Num ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-17 12:57
- Programmes for the promotion of home herbal gardens: what challenges ahead?
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In recent years, increasing attention has been given to home herbal gardens (HHG) and numerous projects have been carried out. Despite this, the active participation of villagers in the cultivation of medicinal plants in HHGs is not very high. The prese ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-03-30 16:05
