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Service delivery on the cheap? Community-based workers in development interventions

Within current neo-liberal approaches to development, models of community-driven development assume that community-based workers (CBWs) are key actors in improved and accessible service delivery. We argue that use of CBWs is under-theorised and seems to ...

Abstract - dwardle - 2011-06-07 13:12

Protecting children from trafficking in Benin: in need of politics and participation

This paper critically examines policy in Benin against child trafficking. Drawing on interviews and participant observation with adolescent labour migrants and their communities, it problematises both the assumptions underpinning anti-trafficking policy ...

Abstract - dwardle - 2012-06-13 15:57

Mitigating impacts of HIV/AIDS on rural livelihoods: NGO experiences in sub-Saharan Africa

HIV/AIDS is having profound impacts on livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa. These include the deaths of working-age adults, the diversion of resources to caring, and the rupture of traditional chains of knowledge transmission. NGOs are responding by providi ...

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

New technology for rural women: paradoxes of sustainability

This article discusses the difficulties of reaching relatively poor populations with labour saving technologies. Taking the case of milling and dehulling technologies in Senegal and The Gambia, it presents a simple analytic model that helps to explain why ...

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

Handing over an operational project to community management in North Darfur, Sudan

The Kebkabiya project was the first of Oxfam's operational development projects instigated during the 1980s to initiate a handover to community management. It therefore offers a possible model to other operational projects considering their eventual futur ...

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

Beyond the NGO-government divide: network NGOs in East Africa

An examination is presented on a type of NGO, known as a network NGO that, it is argued, is currently exploiting the personal links across the government-NGO divide, and acknowledging their interdependence. Characteristics of such NGOs are that they have ...

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

Gender equality – whose agenda? Observations from Cameroon

The political project of gender equality in Africa has gained momentum and made many achievements. However, these have been largely confined to the ‘big’ women working in the public and private bureaucratic contexts in which there is a greater commitment ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:36

More effective natural resource management through democratically elected, decentralised government structures in Uganda

Scaling up agroforestry adoption requires technical innovations that are adapted to the environment, demand-driven, require low capital and labour inputs, and provide tangible benefits in a short time. The basic inputs, usually information and germplasm, ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:46

Improving agri-food marketing in developing economies: contractual vegetable markets in Ghana

Smallholder farmers in developing economies face a range of marketing and exchange problems. This article concerns the organisation of vegetable markets in Ghana, in which transactions are characterised by uncertainty, mistrust and undeveloped buyer-selle ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:43

Evolving Land Rights, Policy and Tenure in Africa

Author:  Toulmin, Camilla and Julian Quan (eds.) Issue:  ...

Book review - admin - 2009-12-07 13:19