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- Pro-poor? Class, gender, power, and authority in faith-based education in Maharashtra, India
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Religious and secular ideologies are hotly debated within Indian educational circles, partly in response to neo-liberal trends in educational provision, which have encouraged non-state providers, including religious organisations, to increase their invo ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-07-12 13:56
- Working with streetchildren
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In September 1990 we became involved with the Centre for the Defence of the Child (CDM) in Brazil, with a view to participating in a survey into the lives of streetchildren that was being conducted by the group. The CDM is a branch of its parent organisat ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:53
- Getting down to ground level: a community perspective on social development
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In 1994, the UN Volunteers programme (UNV) and UN Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) collaborated on a research project, Volunteer Contributions to Social Integration at the Grassroots: the Urban or `Pavement Dimension'. The author describ ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:56
- How can PhD research contribute to the global health research agenda?
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We suggest that PhD and post-doctoral researchers are a strong, untapped resource with the potential to make a real contribution to global health research (GHR). However, we raise some ethical, institutional, and funding issues that either discourage new ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02
- Who cares? the personal and professional problems of NGO fieldworkers in Bangladesh
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This article highlights the personal and professional problems of NGO fieldworkers in Bangladesh. The paper draws on field research with the front-line workers of four NGOs, their clients, immediate superiors, and senior management. Fieldworkers face pers ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:08
- Rural Poverty, Risk and Development
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Author: Fafchamps, Marcel Publisher: Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2004, ISBN: 1 8 ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:48
- World Food Aid
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Author: Shaw, John and Edward Clay Issue: Vol ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-10 09:04
- Identity and learning in international volunteerism: ‘Sport for Development and Peace’ internships
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Young sportspersons now serve abroad within the ‘Sport for Development and Peace’ (SDP) movement. Drawing on interviews with former interns from Commonwealth Games Canada's Canadian Sports Leadership Corps programme, this study explored what ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-11-29 13:03
- Toilet is not a dirty word: close to meeting the MDGs for sanitation?
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Improving access to water and sanitation facilities has been a priority on the international development agenda. Halving the number of those who do not have access to sanitation facilities is an MDG target. This study assessed the toilet conditions in a ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2013-04-30 12:04
