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- Decommissioning dams in India: a comparative assessment of Mullaperiyar and other cases
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With the ruefully anticipated breakdown of the Mullaperiyar dam in Kerala as the central issue, this article debates the decommissioning of large dams in India. Drawing on other examples of dam breakdown and decommissioning cases from India and the USA, ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2013-04-30 12:12
- Urban governance and service delivery in Nigeria
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This article examines the inadequate delivery of social services by city governments in Nigeria. It identifies three problems: lack of transparency and accountability in governance; under-qualified staff and administration; and the tenuous relationship ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:34
- Training ethnic workers in mental health work
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This paper develops issues raised in Hans Buwalda's article `Children of war in the Philippines'. It examines issues in training ethnic workers in areas of recent or on-going armed conflict, in mental health work. It explores the possibilities of combinin ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:54
- Empowerment at village level through a workshop method
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An examination in presented of a pilot project to strengthen Primary Health Care (PHC) in Sheikhupura District, which was initiated by the Department of Health, Punjab, Pakistan. The project seeks to create a viable PHC model, providing accessible and sus ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:59
- Engaging elite support for the poorest? BRAC's Targeted Ultra Poor programme for rural women in Bangladesh
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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
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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
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Author: Foley, Griff Issue: Volume 10, Number ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-09 19:50
- Development in States of War
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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
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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
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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
