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- Hazards, globalisation, and sustainability
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The authors report on this workshop, held at the Flood Hazard Research Centre at Middlesex University, which brought together participants experienced in each of these three fields to share their knowledge and enrich each other's understanding. There was ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:01
- The human organisation: challenges in NGOs and development programmes
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It is frequently contended that NGOs and the wider context of development are intrinsically different from other organisational settings within which Human Resource Development (HRD) is believed to play an important role. In this paper, the author outline ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:03
- Best of practices?
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In this brief critique of the idea of ‘best practice’, the author argues that good practice is not replicable or uniform; it cannot be reduced to its component parts for replication elsewhere. Furthermore, the criteria for what constitutes ‘best practice’ ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:06
- Participatory domestication of agroforestry trees: an example from the Peruvian Amazon
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Valuable tree genetic resources are declining around many farming communities in the Peruvian Amazon, limiting farmers' options for economic development. The International Centre for Research in Agroforestry is working with farming communities to increase ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:07
- Women, microfinance, and savings: Lessons and proposals
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Microfinance--both credit and savings--has potential to improve the well-being of poor women in developing countries. This paper explores practical ways to achieve that potential. Based on lessons from informal savings mechanisms that women already use, ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-14 18:09
- The New Development Management
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Author: Dar, Sadhvi and Bill Cooke (eds.) Publisher: London and New York: Zed ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-17 13:14
- The Network Inside Out
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Author: Riles, Annelise Publisher: Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2 ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:51
- Managing for Change: How to Run Community Development Projects
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Author: Davies, Anthony Issue: Volume 7, Num ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-07 09:21
- The Water Sellers: A Co-operative Venture By The Rural Poor
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Author: Wood, G.D. and R. Palmer-Jones Issue: ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-10 08:42
- No visible difference: a women's empowerment process in a Cambodian NGO
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The lives of female Cambodian NGO staff are characterised by the contradictions of apparent freedom and multiple invisible constraints on their behaviour and choices. An empowerment process facilitated by an expatriate did not produce the expected respo ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-05 16:00
