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- Impact Measurement and Accountability in Emergencies: The Good Enough Guide
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Author: Emergency Capacity Building Project Publisher: Oxford: Oxfam GB, 2007, ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-05 18:59
- World Vision Security Manual: Safety Awareness for Aid Workers
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Author: Rogers, Charles S.; Sytsma, Brian (eds.) Publisher: Geneva ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:51
- Getting Good Government: Capacity Building in the Public Sectors of Developing Countries
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Author: Grindle, Merilee S. Issue: Volume 8, ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-08 09:09
- Communicating with Children: Helping Children in Distress
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Author: Richman, Naomi Issue: Volume 3, Numbe ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-17 12:48
- Institutional change: the unanticipated consequences of action
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This article argues that the managerial approaches to development need to be reconstituted through a more comprehensive understanding of how institutional and behavioural change processes occur. Drawing from a case study in Nepal, and by exploring the l ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2010-11-09 12:51
- Using the Five Capabilities (5C) model: making a virtue of necessity
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The development sector is rife with complaints about strict accountability requirements imposed by donors. However, this paper argues that the imposition of a new accountability framework can sometimes be converted into a useful tool. This note describe ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2013-04-30 11:57
- A case study of business and civil society in partnership for change: the `Economy of Communion'
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The role of Northern-based civil society organisations has undergone dramatic changes in recent years. In particular, their principal role as `redistributive' agencies working in the South has come under criticism, leading them to seek new ways of definin ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:00
- What difference can they make? Assessing the social impact of corporate codes of practice
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As retailers in the North increasingly adopt codes of practice containing social and/or environmental provisions in global supply chains, there is a need for rigorous assessment of their social impact. Moving beyond the rhetoric, it is important to establ ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:49
- Women in water management: the need for local planning
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The paper notes that in India, even when a village or household level survey is carried out for water-resource development, the usual standards of data collection are applied, and women's central importance in water use is thus not reflected. However, wom ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:55
- Paolo Freire 1921-1997 - a philosophy of hope, a life of practice
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The author gives a personal account of the importance of the late Paolo Freire's work and thinking. Freire's influence can be seen in many of the ideals and practices of educationalists, community workers, and specifically adult-literacy workers across th ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:58
