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- Release of the poor through education in Tamil Nadu, India
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Release of the Poor Through Education (ROPE) is a small development organization operating in a rural area of Tamil Nadu, Southern India. ROPE has chosen to focus and concentrate its efforts on upgrading the education, health and quality of life of the 50 ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:54
- Sanctioned violence: development and the persecution of women as witches in South Bihar
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Victimising women as witches is prevalent in the tribal regions of South Bihar. As a result, between 1991 and 1994, over 60 women are known to have been killed in West Singhbhum district alone. The main reasons behind this persecution are to maintain wome ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:58
- On-farm testing and dissemination of agroforestry among slash-and-burn farmers in Nagaland, India
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This paper describes the structure and impacts of a development project in Nagaland, India. The project was a large-scale experiment in participatory development that emphasised local technology based on farmer-led testing of agroforestry, where farmers t ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:08
- Non-Governmental Organisations and the State in Asia: Rethinking Roles in Sustainable Agriculture
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Author: Farrington, John et al. Issue: Volume ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-10 09:25
- The dynamics of contemporary local-government policies and economic development in West Papua
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There have been enormous political, economic, and social changes in West Papua. Every governor of West Papua has designed programmes to boost economic development and reduce poverty. The influx of migrant workers under the ‘transmigration programm ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-06-27 12:59
- Religious values and beliefs and education for women in Pakistan
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This paper explores the hypothesis that Islamic religious values and beliefs are antithetical to women's education in two cities in Pakistan: Lahore, generally believed to be a socially liberal city, and Peshawar, often regarded as the bastion of conser ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-07-12 13:43
- Decentralised transformative leadership approaches to HIV/AIDS in Nepal 2002-2004
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This article analyses a decentralised transformative leadership pilot project launched by the UNDP to combat the growing HIV/AIDS crisis in Nepal. The project aims to strengthen district leadership and participatory multi-sector planning, clarify the dist ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:44
- A tribal welfare project in Tamil Nadu
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The Nilgiris Adivasi Welfare Association (NAWA) was founded in 1958, in Tamil Nadu, India, to work for the integrated welfare of the six Nilgiri tribes, all displaced and dispersed by the invasion of their forest homelands by incoming non-tribal peoples. ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:55
- Globalisation and women in India
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Describing the way globalisation has affected India over the last decade, the author considers the impact of these changes on women, in the main areas of `development' due to globalisation: commercialisation, capitalisation, foreign trade orientation, and ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02
- Women’s empowerment in challenging environments: a case study from Balochistan
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This article offers strategies for women’s empowerment in conservative, tribal, and religious environments, based on an innovative programme in Pakistan. Mainstreaming Gender and Development (MGD) encouraged participants to build on their communities’ str ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:09
