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- Dealing with hidden issues: trafficked women in Nepal
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The authors describe the extent of the trade in mainly rural Nepalese women, sold into prostitution and bonded labour in Asia and the Middle East, often by their families, because of poverty. The organisation Women Acting Together for Change (WATCH) works ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:56
- Export processing zones: a Caribbean development dilemma
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The author describes incentives used by governments to attract foreign investment and create export processing zones (EPZs), also known as special economic or free trade zones. The low cost of labour, mostly provided by women, is one of these incentives. ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:01
- Languages in lifelong education for Third World development
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Educational and societal development programmes in the Third World have paid too little attention to the facilitative and motivational merits of using indigenous languages. From primary education through to development activities among adults, the use of ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:05
- Beyond the `Grim Resisters': towards more effective gender mainstreaming through stakeholder participation
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Gender experts who formulate planning frameworks, and strategies for mainstreaming gender issues in organisational policies and programmes usually characterise non-expert policy makers and planners as either active resisters or passive implementers rather ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:08
- Gender in Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction Congress, Manila, 19–22 October 2008
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The Gender in Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction Congress held in Manila 19–22 October 2008) was the Third Global Congress of Women in Politics and Governance. Its purpose was to provide a forum for decision makers to formulate gender-resp ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-29 10:28
- Participation, Negotiation and Poverty: Encountering the Power of Images
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Author: Tembo, Fletcher Publisher: Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003, ISBN: 0 7546 3377 ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:49
- What Works for Working Children
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Author: Boyden, Jo, Birgitta Lang, and William Myers Issue: ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-10 09:01
- The Psychological Well-Being of Refugee Children: Research, Practice, and Policy Issues
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Author: McCallin, Margaret Issue: Volume 4, N ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-08 08:55
- Development and Patronage
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Edited by: Eade, Deborah Far from being a liberating process for all, much of what has been done in the name of development serves to r ...
Book - RichS - 2009-12-22 15:01
- More practical lessons from five projects on disability-inclusive development
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The present article follows on from the practical note in Development in Practice 20(7): 879–886 that looked at seven common early lessons learnt from the inclusion of disabled people in World Vision programming work across four countries, based o ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-06-08 13:07
