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- Social capacity, sustainable development and older people: lessons from community-based care in Southeast Asia
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While gender has become a central factor in development, age and older people are seldom considered, and many organisations assume a top-down, non-participatory model of care - even when these organisations are otherwise engaged in sustainable and partipa ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:06
- Global Connections: ‘A Tool for Active Citizenship’
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As a result of globalisation and changing technologies, young people are increasingly required to engage with the broader world beyond their local and national communities. This raises significant questions about the ways and spaces young people will ne ...
Abstract - sally - 2009-11-19 12:20
- Children of war in the Philippines: introducing Creative Process Therapy into the work of the Children's Rehabilitation Center in Davao City
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Political armed conflict has important ramifications in the lives of children as individuals and in terms of social development more generally. However, the emotional problems faced by children during and after war or political violence are rarely conside ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:54
- Achieving behaviour change: Three generations of HIV/AIDS programming and jargon in Thailand
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NGOs have played an important role worldwide in trying to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS through achieving behaviour change. NGOs have often been at the fore of innovative changes, influencing government and international programming activities. This pape ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:09
- The impact of high food prices on poverty in China
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This article first reviews the development of food prices in China since 2000. The authors find that despite tremendous price fluctuations in the international market in 2007–08, major staple crops (rice, wheat, and maize) in the domestic market w ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-16 09:50
- The power of participatory monitoring and evaluation: insights from southwest China
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This article examines the capacity-building experiences of two research teams in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces in southwest China who used participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) to strengthen their development research actions, particularly in the ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02
- Southeast Asia in Search of an ASEAN Community : Insights from the Former ASEAN Secretary-General
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Author: Severino, Rodolfo C. Publisher: Singapore, ISEAS, 2006, ISBN 978-981- ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-17 13:11
- Cooperation in aquaculture rehabilitation and development in Aceh, Indonesia
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Post-tsunami rehabilitation and reconstruction activities in Aceh have been criticised as focussing on vertical reporting at the expense of lateral coordination, leading in some cases to ‘overlaps and redundancies, mis-targeting and hastily planne ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-02-27 18:06
- 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
- TNCs: aid agents for the new millennium?
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Until very recently private capital flows to developing countries have been growing rapidly. In the wake of the 1997 East Asian financial crisis, foreign direct investment has been identified as a vital ingredient to restore and invigorate the economies i ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:06
