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- Meeting Needs: NGO Coordination in Practice
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Author: Bennett, Jon Issue: Volume 6, Number ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-10 09:06
- Is this a partnership or a relationship? Concern Worldwide maps the difference
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Despite its adoption of a partnership approach within its countries of operation, Concern Worldwide has struggled to match its definition of partnership with the range of relationships in which it actually engages on the ground. A relationship-mapping d ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2010-11-05 14:14
- Learning for capacity development: a holistic approach to sustained organisational change
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This article describes a holistic approach to organisational development that promotes learning and its integration into everyday work practice. It presents the approach and how it leads to genuine organisational transformation, increased organisational ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-08-16 10:13
- Engaging with cultural practices in ways that benefit women in northern Nigeria
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This study explores the intra-household impact of improved dual-purpose cowpea (IDPC) from a gender perspective, in terms of productivity and food, fodder, and income availability, the impact of which is linked to the income thus placed in the women's han ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:35
- Scaling-up natural resource management: insights from research in Latin America
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Scaling-up local innovations in natural resource management (NRM) involves learning that is centred around three themes: promoting local-level innovation, understanding why local innovations work in specific contexts, and reflecting on their relevance in ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:46
- Evaluating HIV/AIDS programmes
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The ultimate objective of any AIDS/HIV intervention project is to reduce the spread of AIDS by promoting safer sexual behaviour. It is misleading to evaluate individual projects in terms of their success in achieving this because behavioural changes are i ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:53
- Framing participation: development projects, professionals, and organisations
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Major efforts have been made by development organisations to make their systems of project and programme management more participatory, in order to be accountable to local participants (or beneficiaries), while also creating opportunities for them to shap ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:57
- Northern words, Southern readings
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The authors describe the phenomena of `perverse inertias' - effects and tendencies which are the opposite of what was intended - in the context of Southern responses to Northern NGOs. Two specific impacts on recipient populations are discussed. `The proje ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:59
- Literacy comes second: working with groups in developing societies
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Literacy programmes conventionally focus solely on non-literates and use a 'learn first, do later' model that is ill-suited to adult learning. Programmes based on existing groups (whether function- or location-based), and which use a 'learn through doing' ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:03
- Reflections on relationships: the nature of partnership according to five NGOs in southern Mexico
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This article is based on interviews with several staff members of NGOs located in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, regarding partnerships between them and their funding sources, such as foundations or agencies of the North that do or support ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:05
