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- Between a Rock and a Hard Place: African NGOs, Donors and the State
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Author: Igoe, Jim and Kelsall, Tim (eds.) Publisher: Durham, NC: Carolina Acad ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:57
- ‘Humanicrats’: the social production of compassion, indifference, and hostility in long-term camps
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Why do front-line workers not always display humanitarian compassion towards people living in camps? In seeking an answer, this article conceptualises the ‘humanicrat’: a front-line worker who is part humanitarian and part bureaucrat, each w ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-06-07 15:31
- Child protection and harmful traditional practices: female early marriage and genital modification in Ethiopia
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This article explores divergent perspectives on female early marriage and genital modification in Ethiopia. It contrasts international norms and research evidence with local understandings, the latter focusing on the part these practices play in securin ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-06-13 16:01
- Enhancing competitiveness and securing equitable development: can small, micro, and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) do the trick?
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Many governments and aid agencies believe that small businesses can contribute to promoting more equitable development, as well as enhancing the competitiveness of local industries within a global economy. While small, micro, and medium-sized enterprises ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:40
- Disaster without memory: Oxfam's drought programme in Zambia
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In Southern Africa, a major drought during 1992-3 threatened devastating consequences for poor rural populations in the region. The article describes the unconventional approach to disaster mitigation undertaken by Oxfam in Zambia. This both enabled peopl ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:39
- NGOs, the poor, and local government
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An examination is presented of an NGO project in Zambia, focusing on its approach, its specific consequences for local participation, potential for sustainability and its ability to hold the government accountable for how its uses public resources. Sectio ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:38
- An endogenous empowerment strategy: a case study of Nigerian women
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The paper presents a potentially effective empowerment strategy for women, using Nigeria as a case study. The strategy evolves from an evaluation of recent empowerment strategies in Nigeria, empowerment concepts, and Karl's (1995) scheme of empowerment. T ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:37
- Capacity building through secondment of staff: a possible model in emergencies?
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This paper offers a case study of a secondment of staff from a Northern NGO (Trócaire) to a Southern partner, the Catholic Development Commission (CADECOM) of Malawi, as a possible model for capacity building. The approach described was tried in the conte ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:36
- Stakeholder participation, gender, and codes of conduct in South Africa
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Ethical trade is expanding rapidly in the UK. Following the foundation of the Ethical Trading Initiative many companies are adopting codes of conduct to cover employment conditions in their supply chains, based on a process of multi-stakeholder particip ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:46
- United we stand: labour unions and human rights NGOs in the democratisation process in Nigeria
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Human rights NGOs were the vanguard of the struggle for democratisation in Nigeria, but they had to forge alliances with labour unions and other groups to galvanise this process effectively. This paper explores the alliances between labour unions and NGOs ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:43
