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The learning organisation as a model for rural development

This article presents evidence from Uganda's National Agricultural Advisory Service to argue that the concept of 'the learning organisation' is a valuable complement to participatory development which may facilitate a shift towards more democratic devel ...

Abstract - dwardle - 2010-05-04 15:52

Agricultural cooperatives and social empowerment of women: a Ugandan case study

This article presents a case study of Manyakabi Area Cooperative Enterprise in south-western Uganda, which shows that benefits from agricultural cooperatives can extend beyond monetary tangibles. We discuss several social factors that women members clai ...

Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-05 16:13

The role of religion in women's campaigns for legal reform in Nigeria

Legal reform is necessary but not sufficient to realise women's rights. This paper compares two campaigns for legal reform in Nigeria: attempts to domesticate the UN Convention for the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in ...

Abstract - dwardle - 2012-07-12 13:52

Public-private partnership (PPP) and water-supply provision in urban Africa: the experience of Congo-Brazzaville

This paper addresses the introduction of a public-private partnership (PPP) for water provision in urban Congo. It describes the organisational context before and after PPP and discusses the various outcomes of the partnership, both positive and negative. ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:40

Beyond the micro-project: a new strategy in Benin

From 1989, an attempt to improve agriculture by directly addressing ignorance and fatalism has been developed in Benin by an Italian NGO, Mani Tese, based on attempts to provide traditional peasant farmers with better qualifications and greater motivation ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:39

The Zimbabwe Women's Resource Centre and Network

The paper discusses some of the innovative ways in which the Zimbabwe Women's Resource Centre and Network (ZWRCN) has generated space for alternative critical feminist knowledge and analysis, which it sees as an essential basis for equitable development. ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:38

Community-based animal health care in Zambia

The author gives an account of a partnership between a UK-based NGO and the Zambian government, designed to encourage `smallholder farmers to form `cattle clubs' [to] operate and manage community cattle-spraying points on a full cost-recovery basis'. The ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:37

The development role of community banks in rural Nigeria

This paper examines a Community Banking Scheme set up in Nigeria in 1991, in terms of its financial capabilities - `deposit mobilisation capability, and the value and ratio of its loan portfolio' - and considers four examples of its non-banking developmen ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:48

The impact of reforms and development on the traditional values of the Cameroon Grassfields

Reforms and development in the Cameroon Grassfields have raised the costs of building materials, which means that the poor may never be able to afford to build their own homes and so must rent. Locally available materials have been disregarded and their u ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:45

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