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Environment, advocacy, and community participation: MOPAWI in Honduras

MOPAWI is an NGO in La Mosquitia, Honduras, working with indigenous communities in the region to create ecological sustainability and to strengthen technical knowledge and resource management. This paper presents the findings of research into how MOPAWI h ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:04

Embracing marginality: place-making vs development in Gardenton, Manitoba

Based on a two-year, multi-method study of ‘development’ in one small community in rural Manitoba, Canada, the article examines how the community and people’s reasons for living there have both changed and remained consistent since the beginning of the ar ...

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

Maori community-based sustainable development: a research progress report

Some indigenous peoples are attempting to explore approaches to defining and implementing sustainable development in ways appropriate to them. In 1998, four Maori iwi (tribal) organisations embarked on a research project with a research team from the Univ ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:10

Gender Myths and Feminist Fables: The Struggle for Interpretive Power in Gender and Development

Author:  Cornwall, Andrea, Elizabeth Harrison and Ann Whitehead (eds.) Publisher:  ...

Book review - admin - 2009-12-05 19:11

Women and Social Movements in Latin America

Author:  Stephen, Lynn Issue:  Volume 9, Number ...

Book review - admin - 2009-12-08 09:20

The Oxfam Gender Training Manual

Author:  Williams, Suzanne et al. Issue:  Volum ...

Book review - admin - 2009-12-09 13:48

Gender and Social Policy in a Global Context: Uncovering the Gendered Structure of ‘the Social’

Author:  Razavi, Shahra and Shireen Hassim (eds.) Publisher:  Basingstoke: Palgr ...

Book review - admin - 2009-12-22 08:50

Monitoring gendered outcomes of environmental and development policies

Environmental and development policies used to be considered gender-neutral. Women's needs and interests were perceived to be identical to those of men. Empirical research has more recently asserted that policies that were thought to be gender-neutral w ...

Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-05 16:19

“Nobody helps us”: insights from ultra-poor Bangladeshi women on being beyond reach

This paper documents the exclusion from formal assistance of 43 Bangladeshi ultra-poor female heads of household, which forces women to rely on overstretched forms of informal assistance that are not culturally prescribed and are often experienced as sh ...

Abstract - dwardle - 2013-04-30 12:02

A multidisciplinary NGO: the interface of home economics with gender and development

This paper analyses the trends and major themes in the fields of home economics (HE) and gender and development (GAD) focusing on different regions of the world and on change over the course of recent history. The interface of these two fields of educat ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:44