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Community-based rehabilitation and development: Disabled children in Guyana

01/02/1994

12 pages long

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This article examines the challenge facing the rehabilitation of disabled people, particularly children, as we approach the end of the twentieth century. The potential of a community-based model of rehabilitation is considered in the light of experience gained in five districts of Guyana. Rehabilitation is conceived as part of a wider perspective on community development, […]

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Participatory rural appraisal for a vibrant co-operative sector

01/02/1994

4 pages long

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Cooperatives in general are considered to be in crisis, dominated by self-centred and short-sighted outsiders seeking power. The Primary Agricultural Cooperatives (PACs) in India, which were considered to be the nucleus of rural life, have lost their values and character and appear to have nothing to do with the people whom they were intended to […]

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The Nicaraguan Literacy Crusade – How lasting were its benefits?

01/02/1994

15 pages long

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In 1981, Nicaragua was awarded a UNESCO prize in recognition of the success of the 1980 National Literacy Crusade (CNA) through which, it was claimed, three quarters of the country’s illiterate had been taught to read and write. This article reports the follow-up of several women graduates of the CNA. It finds that, a decade […]

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Children of war in the Philippines

01/02/1994

10 pages long

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Political armed conflict has important ramifications in the lives of children as individuals and on social development more generally. However, the emotional problems faced by children during and after war or political violence are rarely considered in development literature and practice. This article recounts the experience of working with severely traumatised children in the Philippines, […]

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Editorial

01/02/1994

2 pages long

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This article does not have a description. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

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Partners and beneficiaries: Questioning donors

01/02/1994

8 pages long

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This article discusses the intermediaries between donor and beneficiary; the southern NGOs and other groups and institutions who are the recipients of grants and who carry responsibility for delivering the project to the intended population. The role of southern NGOs has changed, and so has the northern donor context; thus agencies like Oxfam have to […]

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Sudanese refugees in Koboko

01/02/1994

4 pages long

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When refugees fled from Sudan to Uganda, some aid agencies in Sudan went with them. Their priorities were to supply water and promote hygiene, in addition to providing health care and education begun previously. The author recounts her experience of working alongside these agencies, women refugees, Sudanese technical experts, and community representatives. She saw how […]

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Saharawi women: ‘between ambition and suffering’

01/02/1994

4 pages long

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Saharawi women: ‘between ambition and suffering’

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A conference by ‘One World Action’ that focused on Saharawi women refugees, has highlighted how women worldwide cope with displacement. The true picture is starkly different to that portrayed by Western media and understood by Western aid agencies. Women refugees are not ‘victims’ but empower themselves by running the camps and assuming traditional male roles […]

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Women refugees in Bangladesh

01/02/1994

5 pages long

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Oxfam has been providing water to women refugee camps in Bangladesh. Male officials run the camps, for women fleeing Burma. These men target women and children for ‘voluntary’ repatriation. Families are separated and sexual abuse is rife. Oxfam, in contrast, is successfully integrating gender equality into its water programme, made easier because Oxfam staff live […]

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Rebuilding shattered lives

01/02/1994

3 pages long

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There was a massive and generous response within India to the earthquake disaster in Maharashtra, and many volunteers came to the affected areas to offer assistance. The majority of volunteers were men, and it was important to ensure that this did not mean, as so often has been the case, that the experience and particular […]

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