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Strategies for out-scaling participatory research approaches for sustaining agricultural research impacts

The popularity of participatory research approaches is largely driven by the expected benefits from bridging the gap between formal agricultural science institutions and local farm communities, making agricultural research more relevant and effective. The ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:00

Hanging in, stepping up and stepping out: livelihood aspirations and strategies of the poor

In recent years understanding of poverty and of ways in which people escape from or fall into poverty has become more holistic. This should improve the capabilities of policy analysts and others working to reduce poverty, but it also makes analysis more ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:52

The Nicaraguan Literacy Crusade: how lasting were its benefits?

In 1981, Nicaragua was awarded UNESCO's Nadezhda K Krupskaya prize in recognition of the success of the 1980 National Literacy Crusade (CNA) through which, it was claimed, three quarters of the country's illiterate had been taught to read and write. This ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:54

Beijing: a conference of commitments?

The author briefly discusses the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, negotiated and adopted by 189 countries at the Fourth World Conference on Women in September 1995, and how it promises that governments will take responsibility for its implemen ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:56

Partnership: a new name in development Cupertino

Since the 1960s, `partnership' has been a stated aim of NGOs, and the authors discuss how the concept of partnership has developed over the last 30 years. The type of relationship partners should have and the type of institution, government or group that ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:57

ICVA's near-death experience: temptation and redemption in the `Humanitarian International'

In 1997, the International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA), which was formed in 1962, came close to being dissolved. The author provides a personal viewpoint on the way that the ICVA moved towards this point: highlighting organisational, managerial, ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:01

Engaging elite support for the poorest? BRAC's Targeted Ultra Poor programme for rural women in Bangladesh

This article draws preliminary lessons from the experience of engaging village elites in support of a BRAC programme for ultra-poor women in rural Bangladesh. It describes the origins, aims, and operation of this programme, which provides comprehensive li ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:05

Community development: Freire and Grameen in the Barrowfield Project, Glasgow, Scotland

This article is an attempt to examine one of the better-known failures in UK community development – the Barrowfield Project in Glasgow (1986–1996) – and to compare and contrast it with other attempts at community development, especially some associated w ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:07

Factors and motivations contributing to community volunteers’ participation in a nursery feeding project in Malawi

This article reports on a study to explore the factors and motivations that contribute to community volunteers’ participation in a nursery feeding project in Malawi. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with community volunteers in 15 of the 32 site ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:35

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