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- Impact assessment in the Sustainable Livelihood Framework
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The use of impact assessment can be characterised on a scale with ‘proving impact’ on one side and ‘improving practices’ on the other. Even though this is not an either/or scale, the two often do not combine automatically. In thi ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-08-16 10:10
- Constructing alternatives to globalisation: strengthening tradition through innovation
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Full-text sample article FREE from Taylor & Francis With the inability of international economic integration to create opportunities for important segments of society, many Mexicans are searching for ways to forge their own alternatives. These ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:46
- Junto con los niños: street children in Mexico
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A notable absentee from the ten-point action plan set out by the 1990 World Summit for Children was the issue of street children. Yet such children are a common sight in cities of the developing world, and live in some of the most extreme conditions of po ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:57
- The new urban poor: the Tobas indians
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The author describes the movement of the Tobas indians from their nomadic, rural lifestyle in northern Argentina (due mainly to industrial deforestation) to Rosario, a city of around 1 million inhabitants. He highlights the difficulties the Tobas face in ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:05
- Organisational learning in NGOs: an example of an intervention based on the work of Chris Argyris
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The research work of Harvard professor Chris Argyris gave rise to much of what is today called Organisational Learning, an approach subsequently promulgated by Peter Senge and his team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The first section of t ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:09
- Accountability Politics: Power and Voice in Rural Mexico
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Author: Fox, Jonathan Publisher: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, ISBN: ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-10 09:07
- An international NGO representative in Colombia: reflections from practice
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Certain contexts render particularly challenging the disjunctures and discontinuities between international NGO (INGO) headquarters and in-country operations, as this Christian Aid case demonstrates. Torn loyalties result when seeking to discern how bes ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2010-11-05 13:34
- A meeting about women and reproductive health in Latin America and the Caribbean
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The author reports on the Latin America and Caribbean Women and Health Network of Isis International's working meeting in October 1991, held in Santiago, Chile. The meeting produced guidelines for the women's health movement on abortion, AIDS, teenage pre ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:53
- Guatemala: uncovering the past, recovering the future
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The author gives a personal view of her experiences in Guatemala in 1995, when she met with human-rights workers coping with the aftermath, and ongoing trauma, of the 36-year war. She describes the fear and disruption brought about by so many years of mil ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:58
- 'Resistance as creation': a new sociability in Argentina
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While everyday forms of resistance are not new in Argentina, the spontaneity that characterised the insurrection on 19 and 20 December 2001 was unprecedented. It showed how the absence of leadership, co-ordination, and promise might open the doors to powe ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:07
