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- Problematising the community-contribution requirement in participatory projects: evidence from Kyrgyzstan
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This article examines the extent to which the World Bank-funded Village Investment Project in Kyrgyzstan promoted empowered participation of citizens in co-financing arrangements. It is based on in-depth qualitative interviews and focus-group sessions i ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-05 15:23
- Trajectories of transnational Muslim NGOs
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Transnational Muslim NGOs are increasingly important actors in the field of aid provision. Much of the literature has presented a rather static and homogeneous picture of this group of organisations, overlooking their heterogeneity and changing nature. ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-07-12 13:48
- International NGOs and unions in the South: worlds apart or allies in the struggle?
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In the early 1980s, support for trade unions was a significant component of Oxfam GB's programmes in various parts of the world, most notably Central America and South Africa. In Central America, this was motivated both because organised labour played an ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:01
- Building skills in qualitative research to inform pro-poor policy: experience from a Bangladeshi NGO
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This paper describes the research methodology followed in the ‘Livelihoods of the Extreme Poor Project’, a collaborative research project in Bangladesh between PROSHIKA (a large national NGO) and DFID (the UK government department for international develo ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:46
- Memory, suffering, survival tactics, and healing among Jopadhola women in post-war Uganda
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This ethnographic case study addresses the question of how women in Jopadhola patriarchal society in Eastern Uganda remember three decades of civil war and violence and survived its aftermath. When the war ended, little changed for these women, who are ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:34
- NGOs and Cuba: opportunity or opportunism?
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Reporting on a large gathering of international and Cuban NGOs and other agencies, this article explores the issues faced by Cuban society in undergoing rapid economic change; and examines why the New World Order has not led to any significant involvement ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:55
- Recovering the future: grandmothers campaigning for human rights
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The author reports on the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo (the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo), working actively in Argentina to discover the whereabouts of the desaparacidos, the children who were abducted by the military regime of the 1970s to early `80s. T ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:56
- The humanitarian responsibilities of the United Nations Security Council: ensuring the security of the people
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The United Nations Charter confers on the Security Council prime responsibility for maintaining international peace and security. Yet these very concepts are undergoing radical change. More than the absence of war, peace has come to mean harmony both with ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:58
- Fundraising in Brazil: the major implications for civil society organisations and international NGOs
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This paper looks at the opportunities for civil society organisations (CSOs) in Brazil to increase and diversify income. It demonstrates the range of potential new sources of funds, including the Brazilian public, commercial activities, and government ins ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:59
- Did the project fail? A community perspective on a participatory primary health care project in Ecuador
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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
