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- Participation, education and pluralism: towards a new extension ethic
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The concern driving current debate on agricultural extension is increasingly that of what can be done to help farmers learn how to deal with the complex world around them responsibly and profitably, in such a way that the extension worker is ancillary. Th ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:03
- Towards a policy framework for the empowerment of social movements
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As they move from responding to needs and demands to a more rights-based approach, some French NGOs are rethinking both their areas of work and their ways of working. ‘Empowerment’ has become a key concept in this changing context, although it is sometime ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:08
- Foreign Direct Investment for Development: Maximising Benefits, Minimising Costs
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Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Publisher: Pari ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:49
- Community Nutritional Assessment
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Author: Jelliffe, D.B. and E.F.P. Jelliffe Issue: ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-07 13:21
- Is the doctor on? In search of users for medical software in rural Himalayas
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The Indian healthcare sector provides ripe ground for development as access to high-quality and timely medical diagnosis remains unrequited among its vast rural populace. With an acute shortage of doctors in rural areas, medical diagnostic software has ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-03-30 16:07
- The challenges and prospects of the school feeding programme in Northern Ghana
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There is a general problem of enrolment to basic education in northern Ghana. Available statistics indicate that from 2000–05 only about 42 per cent of qualified applicants of school-going age in the Northern Region were enrolled in basic schools. ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2013-07-05 12:31
- Insider-outsider positions in health-development research: reflections for practice
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Recognising that the stance of investigators could make a major impact on the quality and/or interpretation of development-study findings, a small investigation to explore researcher positions and roles was implemented. This was a subsidiary component o ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:49
- Alternatives to residential care for children
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Institutional care for children separated from their family (for whatever reason) continues to be the first choice of governments of developing countries. The long-term consequences of institutionalisation can be severe and in 1991, Save the Children Fund ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:54
- Whose terms? Observations on `development management' in an English city
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Using the example of a project in Sheffield intended to promote user-involvement and participation in planning healthcare services, the author criticises the failure of the project to actually provide any forum for user-participation. The structures used ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:59
- Social protection
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The term ‘social protection’ has been widely used around the world and is often treated as synonymous with ‘social security’, which is misleading. This article considers the numerous terms that have become part of the language of social protection, indica ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:05
