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Global priorities against local context: protecting Bhutanese refugee children in Nepal

This paper explores how the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR) global priorities and strategies for refugee girls and boys are applied in long-term Bhutanese refugee camps in Nepal. It examines UNHCR's interventions to prevent and re ...

Abstract - dwardle - 2012-06-13 16:02

Are current aid strategies marginalising the already marginalised? Cases from Tanzania

Engaging with and assisting marginalised communities remains a major challenge for governments of developing countries, as many national development strategies tend in practice to further marginalise chronically poor communities. Development aid strateg ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:34

Communication is not enough

The main purpose of extension work is to assist and encourage learning, and current thinking on the way adults learn suggests that the social context in which the learning takes place and the attitudes of the target group are as integral to their learning ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:53

Meeting the demand for skilled and experienced humanitarian workers

The humanitarian aid sector faces a growing skills shortage, at a time when it aspires to expand the scale, quality, and impact of its response to humanitarian needs. Rapid staff turnover has been pinpointed as one of the major constraints on both staff c ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:55

Guaranteeing development: an approach to financing economic activities

Increasing numbers of local development organisations are approaching banks seeking credit. Their success has often been limited, due in part to the organisations' unfamiliarity with banking concepts and lack of investment resources, and also to banks' at ...

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

Information Technology and the management of corruption

The author examines the perception that information technology (IT) can be used to stamp out corruption in organisations. Using examples of corrupt practices, he argues that, invariably, development managers should consider the underlying organisational a ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:59

Did the project fail? A community perspective on a participatory primary health care project in Ecuador

This article examines a UNICEF/Ministry of Health primary health care programme in Ecuador from a community perspective. It contributes to the debate concerning the way in which the relative `success' or `failure' of participatory projects is measured. It ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:03

Aid: a mixed blessing

Despite a growing emphasis by aid agencies on local participation and consultation, the recipients of aid commonly have mixed, if not hostile, responses to relief assistance. Agencies need to acknowledge the inequalities that are inherent in an aid relati ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:06

The learning process of the Local Capacities for Peace Project

If aid is found to support a war effort, should aid agencies and practitioners continue to give it? The resounding answer given by aid workers all over the world is that the needs of suffering people are too important to ignore and, further, that there ca ...

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

Aiding Peace? The Role of NGOs in Armed Conflict