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- Moved to act: communication supporting HIV social movements to achieve inclusive social change
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Social movements have generated interest in development circles since the mid-1990s as relatively independent expressions of civil society, mobilising people to set their own development priorities and agendas for issues as diverse as water privatisatio ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-01 13:38
- Utopia Disarmed: the Latin American Left After the Cold War
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Author: Castaneda, Jorge Issue: Volume 5, Num ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-10 09:10
- Child protection: a role for conditional cash transfer programmes?
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Drawing on empirical data from a community-based study with children and adults in rural Peru, the paper analyses the everyday experiences of a conditional cash transfer programme, called ‘Juntos’. The findings show that social protection pr ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-06-13 16:06
- Decentralisation and NGO-municipal government collaboration in Ecuador
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Decentralisation, or the transfer of decision-making power and funds from central to local governments, is one of the most important reform movements in Latin America. Recent constitutional changes in Ecuador have contributed to the democratisation and em ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:46
- Empowerment and Survival: Humanitarian Work in Civil Conflict (Part I)
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This two-part article explores the experience of living and working for a poverty-focused NGO in a civil war whose roots lay in the chronically inequitable distribution of power and access to resources. Based on 12 years' work in Central America, principa ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:56
- Environment, advocacy, and community participation: MOPAWI in Honduras
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MOPAWI is an NGO in La Mosquitia, Honduras, working with indigenous communities in the region to create ecological sustainability and to strengthen technical knowledge and resource management. This paper presents the findings of research into how MOPAWI h ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:04
- NGO–government partnerships for scaling up: sexuality education in Mexico
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Governments in developing countries need effective programmes to advance public policies and improve social welfare. NGOs often have well-tested programmes and research outcomes that are relevant to such needs, yet the scaling up of pilot programmes to ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:08
- Environmental Justice In Latin America - Problems, Promise and Practice
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Author: Carruthers, David V. (ed.) Publisher: Cambridge, MA/London, UK: The MI ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-07 13:23
- Struggles for memory and social-justice education in Latin America
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Popular-education programmes conducted by social movements are reshaping politics and education in Latin America. Negotiating with governments, they promote social justice while educationally challenging 'neo-liberal' educational standardisation. Moving ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2010-06-23 14:58
- Identifying barriers to GIS-based land management in Guatemala
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The development of a cadastral system for the Republic of Guatemala was one of the priorities of the 1997 Peace Accord that ended 30 years of civil war. While uncertainty of land ownership and land title are contentious issues, the development of a nati ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:52
