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- 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
- Why does Community-Based Rehabilitation fail physically disabled women in northern Thailand?
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Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR) has been adopted in many countries to help disabled people. This article analyses the interplay between CBR and the self-alienation of physically disabled women from their communities. In-depth interviews with 40 wom ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:47
- Community-based rehabilitation and development: disabled children in Guyana
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This article examines the challenge facing the rehabilitation of disabled persons, particularly children, as we approach the end of the twentieth century. The potential of a community-based model of rehabilitation is considered in the light of experience ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:54
- Tensions in the psychosocial discourse: implications for the planning of interventions with war-affected populations
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Fundamental conceptual tensions underlie current debates regarding the implementation of psychosocial interventions with war-affected populations. Three particular tensions structuring current discourse concern the generalisability versus uniqueness of re ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:58
- Financing primary health care: an NGO perspective
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How is primary health care (PHC) to be funded in a climate of economic recession? The authors survey the financial implications of the Alma Ata Declaration of 1978 and the Bamako Initiative of 1987. They draw on a survey of over 100 Oxfam-funded health pr ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:04
