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- A tribal welfare project in Tamil Nadu
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The Nilgiris Adivasi Welfare Association (NAWA) was founded in 1958, in Tamil Nadu, India, to work for the integrated welfare of the six Nilgiri tribes, all displaced and dispersed by the invasion of their forest homelands by incoming non-tribal peoples. ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:55
- Prescription for underdevelopment
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The authors respond to some of the criticisms of Where Women Have No Doctor (Development in Practice 8(3)). They argue that, far from it being dangerous to give medical information to low-literacy, untrained people, the reverse, i.e. no information at all ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:01
- Community development: Freire and Grameen in the Barrowfield Project, Glasgow, Scotland
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This article is an attempt to examine one of the better-known failures in UK community development – the Barrowfield Project in Glasgow (1986–1996) – and to compare and contrast it with other attempts at community development, especially some associated w ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:07
- A World Turned Upside Down: Social Ecological Approaches to Children in War Zones
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Author: Boothby, Neil, Alison Strang, and Michael Wessels (eds.) Publisher: Ku ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-17 12:46
- Population Policies Reconsidered: Health, Empowerment, and Rights
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
