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- Towards Green Villages: A Strategy for Environmentally-Sound and Participatory rural Development
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Author: Agarwal, Anil and Sunita Narain Issue: ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-07 09:15
- Sustainability testing for development projects
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The term sustainability has grown increasingly popular as development experts seek to measure the long-term impacts of their projects. Although there is no commonly agreed definition of sustainability, the word has become a common catchphrase. It is oft ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-02-27 17:47
- Developing critical thinking in NGO field staff
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The quality of NGO work is hugely dependent on the quality of critical thinking and analysis of poverty among all levels of staff. In particular, the quality of the work in the field - at partner and community levels - depends on an understanding of devel ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:43
- Canterbury to Cameroon: A new partnership between faiths and the World Bank
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The World Bank and world religions are two of the most powerful forces in the developing world. The Bank has access to vast financial resources, while faiths have vast social access and credibility. Partnership between the Bank and religious groups could ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:51
- Microfinance evangelism, `destitute women', and the hard selling of a new anti-poverty formula
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This article challenges the recent uncritical enthusiasm for the potential of micro-finance institutions to reduce poverty. It is argued that, although understanding about how to design anti-poverty financial intermediation has improved, the current campa ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:56
- Analysis and advocacy on a European policy on conflict prevention: a viewpoint
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The author identifies three key weaknesses in the debate leading up to establishing the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) for the European Union (EU). The process started in 1996 and a generally useful and relevant discussion has taken place betwe ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:59
- The power of participatory monitoring and evaluation: insights from southwest China
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This article examines the capacity-building experiences of two research teams in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces in southwest China who used participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) to strengthen their development research actions, particularly in the ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02
- Engaging elite support for the poorest? BRAC's Targeted Ultra Poor programme for rural women in Bangladesh
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This article draws preliminary lessons from the experience of engaging village elites in support of a BRAC programme for ultra-poor women in rural Bangladesh. It describes the origins, aims, and operation of this programme, which provides comprehensive li ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:05
- Stepping Stones - a participatory tool to integrate gender into HIV/AIDS work
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Stepping Stones is a training package on HIV/AIDS, gender, communication, and relationship skills designed both for use in existing HIV/AIDS projects and more generally. Narrating her experience of a training of trainers programme in India, the author exp ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:06
- A chocolate-coated case for alternative international business models
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Large companies have accelerated their control of the basic commodities markets in the last decade. The author describes what this means for smallholder farmers in the developing world who depend on these markets for some cash income each year. The conseq ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:08
