Narrow down by keywords: Latin America and the Caribbean
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- Multi-lateral agencies and NGOs in the context of policy reform
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This article examines the growth in relations that have occurred between Multilateral Agencies and Non-Governmental Organisations during the past decade. It identifies three substantive debates in the MLAs on participatory development, value for money and ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:53
- Beyond development, what?
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The authors begin to outline the epic now unfolding at the grassroots, arguing that pioneering social movements are groping for their liberation from the `Global Project' being imposed upon them. Going beyond the premises and promises of modernity, peop ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:59
- Translation in cross-cultural research: an example from Bolivia
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Translation raises ethical and epistemological dilemmas inherent in cross-cultural research. The process of communicating research participants’ words in a different language and context may impose another conceptual scheme on their thoughts. This may rei ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:07
- Analysing social change practice in the Peruvian Amazon through a feminist reading of participatory communication research
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This article analyses the social change practices of Minga Perú, an NGO in the Peruvian Amazon that promotes gender equality and reproductive health through radio broadcasts and community-based interventions. This analysis, grounded in participat ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-12-02 17:12
- Popular Education and Social Change in Latin America
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Author: Kane, Liam Publisher: London: Latinmerican Bureau, 2001, ISBN: 1 8993 ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:51
- Editorial (21.7)
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At whatever level we are working, or researching, it is probably a truism that development is a slow business. Recently a UN official said to me that there is no appetite for longer term solutions to the socio-political structural issues which maintain ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-11-29 14:45
- Building synergies in development research: is it time for the Mosaic Approach?
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Development research has responded to a number of charges over the past few decades. For example, when traditional research was accused of being 'top-down', the response was participatory research, linking the 'receptors' to the generators of research. As ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:42
- Living or surviving: reflections on Central America
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As the wars in Central America have subsided, the region is undergoing extensive and far-reaching changes in its economies, and in the role of the State, in particular in the growth of the maquila (assembly plant) industry, and the reduction of the public ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:55
- Free Trade and Uneven Development: The North American Apparel Industry after NAFTA
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Reviewed by Luz María de la Mora, Trade Representative of the Mexican Ministry of Economy at the EU, Brussels Author: Bair, Jennifer ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02
- Participatory design of agroforestry systems: developing farmer participatory research methods in Mexico
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Participatory research that combines the knowledge of farmers and researchers promotes the development of a variety of agroforestry options that may meet the various needs of different farmers, and thus exploits one of the greatest strengths of agroforest ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:07
