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- Gender and Population in the Adjustment of African Economies: Planning for Change
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Author: Palmer, Ingrid Issue: Volume 3, Numb ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-10 08:45
- Linking evidence with user voice for pro-poor policy: lessons from East Africa
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Many agricultural research and development projects seek to achieve pro-poor outcomes through policy change. However, policy processes are complex, and a strategic approach to enhancing impact at policy level is often not applied. This article describes ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2010-11-09 12:37
- Managing interactions in the informal water market: the case of Kisumu, Kenya
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The commercialisation of water services in Kisumu, Kenya has resulted in fewer managerial changes than had been anticipated. Challenges include perceived political interference, inequitable treatment of different groups of residents, and little inter-ag ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-05-15 10:12
- Veterinary services in the Horn of Africa - where are we now?
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Pastoralists are marginalised in the Horn of Africa and receive inadequate veterinary services. Under economic structural adjustment programmes, public veterinary services became increasingly ineffective and, in response, community-based NGO programmes we ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:41
- Wood-burning stoves in Kenya: sale or subsidy?
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This paper looks at a project funded by the Intermediate Technology Development Group aimed at allowing more households in Western Kenya to have access to improved wood-burning stoves, while at the same time benefiting the women who produce them. The basi ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:39
- Development without a peasantry: a forgotten aspect of the land issue in South Africa
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The policies of the apartheid regime prematurely destroyed the peasantry in South Africa, leaving millions of people without land or jobs. The abrogation of racial laws that reserved 87 per cent of the land for whites makes it possible to launch policies ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:39
- Sustainable self-help development efforts in the Cameroon grassfields
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It is argued that community development can contribute to national development, in conjunction with other phenomena. Village-level development efforts depend on the dynamism of community groups. The populations of the Cameroon grassfields possess the crea ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:37
- Supporting communication for development with horizontal dialogue and a level playing field: The Communication Initiative
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This article explores the motivation for, traces the development of, and details the distinctive strategy shaping The Communication Initiative (The CI), a network of those using communication to foster economic and social change in communities around the ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:36
- Scaling up adoption and impact of agroforestry technologies: experiences from western Kenya
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Community-based organisations are increasingly considered a sustainable way to scale up the benefits of agricultural research and development from a few farmers in isolated pilot project areas to spread more widely across geographical and socio-economic g ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:47
- Social policy from the bottom up: abandoning FGC in sub-Saharan Africa
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The authors analyse the experience of Tostan, a Senegalese NGO, with the abandonment of female genital cutting (FGC) in Senegal, the Sudan, and Mali. Tostan uses nonformal, participatory methodologies to support village-based social change, especially in ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:43
