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Gender Planning in Development Agencies: Meeting the Challenge

01/01/1994

6 documents

233 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Gender Planning in Development Agencies is the report of a three-day workshop which took place in Oxford, England, in May 1993. ‘Enhancing Our Experience: Gender Planning in EUROSTEP Agencies’ brought together representatives of 13 NGDOs belonging to EUROSTEP (European Solidarity Towards the Equal Participation of People), and other European networks.

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Book

The Somali Conflict: Prospects for peace

01/01/1994

6 documents

156 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

This paper was commissioned from Mark Bradbury by Oxfam (UK and Ireland), with the main aim of identifying practical ways in which the international group of Oxfam’s might contribute to the peace-making process in Somalia and Somaliland. When the paper was subsequently edited for publication, the recommendations which were originally specific to Oxfam, were generalised […]

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Book

Senegal: A state of change

01/01/1994

5 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English

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Agriculture

Overview

Time has never stood still in Senegal, at the crossroads of African, Islamic, and European cultures. Today the whole country is in a state of change. Nearly half its people now live in towns – where free-market economic reforms have thrown many out of work. Young people are emigrating; traditional family patterns are starting to […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

The Oxfam Gender Training Manual

01/01/1994

14 documents

648 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

This manual is a unique resource for gender and development trainers which draws on the work of gender trainers all over the world. It offers field-tested training activities and handouts drawn from a wide range of sources and shaped into a coherent training programme. The Oxfam Gender Training Manual includes activities which explore: Gender Awareness […]

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Journal article

On being evaluated: Tensions and hopes

01/11/1993

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

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The MOC (Movement for Community Organisation) is an advisory centre for community organisations in the Feira de Santana region of north-east Brazil. Oxfam (UK and Ireland) has provided funds towards their work since 1972, and in 1990/91 commissioned a Brazilian institution to conduct an evaluation. This Note describes how it felt to be evaluated, and […]

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Journal article

Environmental leadership training for Asia

01/11/1993

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Development methods

Overview

There was a split between North and South over environmental issues at the 1992 Earth Summit. A similar rift may re-emerge as the British Overseas Development Administration opens management of its training programmes to competition in 1993. Emerging institutions offering training on environmental matters in Asia have the advantages of similar natural environments, relevance, and […]

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Journal article

‘Does the doormat influence the boot?’: critical thoughts on UK NGOs and international advocacy

01/11/1993

13 pages long

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Most UK development NGOs engage in advocacy work at the international level in an attempt to reduce the constraints imposed on grassroots development by global economics and the actions of the official aid agencies. Thus far, their record has been disappointing, and this article explores some of the reasons which lie behind the failure of […]

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Journal article

NGOs and income-generation projects: Lessons from the Joint Funding Scheme

01/11/1993

12 pages long

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A visit to a number of small enterprise and income-generation projects supported under the ODA’s Joint Funding Scheme in Zimbabwe and Kenya has raised a series of key points which have wider implications for practitioners and donors. The article discusses each point and makes nine ‘recommendations for NGOs and donors who support them. While the […]

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Journal article

North-South relations and the question of aid

01/11/1993

5 pages long

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The author gives a personal view describing the inequalities inherent in current global socio-economic and political arrangements. He identifies training, employment and allocation of development funds as issues fostering inequality between North and South, and discusses prospects for the future of their relationship. This article also appears in the Development in Practice Reader Development and […]

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Journal article

People’s empowerment from the people’s perspective

01/11/1993

8 pages long

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Empowerment of poor people is the declared aim of many NGOs and official development agencies. However, the failure to recognise the culture of poor people, and to use their own forms of organisation as a point of departure, means that many such programmes are in fact counter-productive. This article argues that NGOs which wish to […]

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