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- Lessons from action-research partnerships
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This article looks at lessons that emerge from one specific approach to bridging activism and scholarship – the collaborative research partnership between scholars and activists. What these lessons share is a focus on recognising difference in order to br ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02
- Financing primary health care: an NGO perspective
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How is primary health care (PHC) to be funded in a climate of economic recession? The authors survey the financial implications of the Alma Ata Declaration of 1978 and the Bamako Initiative of 1987. They draw on a survey of over 100 Oxfam-funded health pr ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:04
- Impact assessment: seeing the wood and the trees
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This article summarises the results of a joint action-research project undertaken by a number of international and local NGOs, which involved case studies in four countries in Africa, three in South Asia , one in Latin America, and one in the UK. The pape ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:06
- Poor getting richer and the rich--poor gap getting smaller?
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The author asks what'win-win'public policies can substantially reduce the percentage of people who live in absolute poverty and enable the poor to become richer even if the rich also become richer. ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:08
- Drawing Development: Analysing local understandings of development in three Andean communities
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This article shows how local understandings of development can be researched empirically by reference to experiences presented from three drawing workshops performed with children in the Ayacucho region in the Peruvian Andes. The children were asked to dr ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:09
- Enticing the Learning: Trainers in Development
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Author: Staley, John with Sue Mayo Publisher: Birmingham: University of Birmin ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-10 09:05
- Gender Works: Oxfam Experience in Policy and Practice
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Author: Porter, Fenella, Ines Smyth and Caroline Sweetman (eds.) Issue:&nbs ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-07 13:35
- The Development Practitioners' Handbook
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Author: Kaplan, Allan Issue: Volume 7, Number ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-07 09:11
- Reflections on Humanitarian Action: Principles, Ethics and Contradictions
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Author: Humanitarian Studies Unit (ed.) Publisher: London: Pluto Books, 2001, ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-17 12:28
- Mechanisms and instruments of sustainable development
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The present study aimed to aid government sector managers in Iran in their understanding of sustainable development mechanisms. Research was undertaken with 338 managers selected randomly from seven government ministries. The findings revealed that the ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-05-15 10:14
