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- Failed aid: how development agencies are neglecting and marginalising Rwandan genocide survivors
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This Viewpoint argues that international development aid agencies have failed adequately to address the rights and needs of genocide survivors in Rwanda. It illustrates that genocide survivors remain impoverished and marginalised, and that development a ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2010-05-04 16:19
- Development for whom? Homosexuality and faith-based development in Zimbabwe
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This article reviews some of the main arguments advanced by scholars operating at the interface of religion and development. It then seeks to expand the current literature on religion and development to include more ‘uncomfortable’ subject m ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-16 12:03
- Cost effectiveness of seed fairs relative to direct relief distribution in Zimbabwe
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Seed fairs were being promoted in Zimbabwe as an alternative seed distribution approach to sustain local input markets. Using data from ICRISAT monitoring surveys of 2005–06 and records maintained by non-governmental organisations, this article re ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-08-16 10:16
- Participatory risk assessment: a new approach for safer food in vulnerable African communities
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Women play the major role in food supply in developing countries, but too often their ability to feed their families properly is compromised; the result is high levels of food-borne disease and consequent limited access to higher-value markets. We argue t ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:35
- Funding development in Rwanda: the survivors’ perspective
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Why has the humanitarian world already forgotten the people of Rwanda? And why do the survivors of the Rwandan genocide continue to be sidelined, particularly those women who were raped and deliberately infected with HIV/AIDS in a campaign of systematic s ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:37
- Defining local needs: a community-based diagnostic survey in Ethiopia
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Oxfam in Ethiopia has long been concerned that community-based development programmes should reflect local felt needs and priorities. Particularly where there has been a long history of engagement in a given area, a diagnostic survey has proved to be a va ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:39
- Papers from a Symposium: Building Bridges in Southern Africa: Conflict, Reconstruction, and Reconciliation in Times of Change Preface
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This issue of Development in Practice contains twelve papers from the symposium, held in Johannesburg, South Africa 20-23 June 1996. The symposium, co-hosted by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) and the South Africa Office of ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:38
- A participatory approach to community-based HIV/AIDS awareness
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KwaZulu-Natal has the highest HIV infection rate in South Africa. The authors here report on a workshop using a participatory approach to train doctors, nurses and Environmental Health Officers from the region. The methodology, an adaptation of SARAR te ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:37
- Civil society and reconciliation in Southern Africa
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This article presents some of the key findings of the Southern African Reconciliation Project (SARP). The SARP was a collaborative research project involving five Southern African NGOs in Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. It examine ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:36
- Childhood poverty and evidence-based policy engagement in Ethiopia
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This article explores efforts to bridge multi-disciplinary research and policy engagement to tackle child poverty in the contexts of developing countries, based on the experiences of Young Lives, an international longitudinal policy-research project. It f ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:35
