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Editorial

01/05/1992

2 pages long

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Scaling up NGO impact on development: learning from experience

01/05/1992

15 pages long

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Despite their increasing numbers and size, the impact of non-governmental organisations’ activity on development is usually localised and often transitory. In consequence, NGOs need to analyse the strategies by which they may be able to ‘scale up’s their contribution to development. This article summarises the proceedings of a recent Workshop at the University of Manchester, […]

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Environmental reform in Brazil: advances and reversals

01/03/1992

9 pages long

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It is now two years since the Government of President Fernando Collor de Mello took office in Brazil. This article assesses its effectiveness in implementing its environmental policies and resolving social conflicts in the Amazon in the run-up to the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development. It examines some of the political and […]

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Sustainability in NGO relief and development work: Further thoughts from Mozambique

01/03/1992

10 pages long

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Mozambique during the 1980s and 1990s has provided a challenging context for non-governmental organisations seeking to collaborate with its government in national development. One British NGO, Save the Children Fund, has set out to work in partnership with the government on a range of programmes at central level and in Zambezia province. Longer-term and emergency […]

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Gender and the environment: Traps and opportunities

01/03/1992

11 pages long

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A growing debate about gender and the environment highlights women’s roles in the use and management of natural resources, opening up important opportunities for development analysis and action. But there are traps in conceiving of women’s roles in relation to the environment in a partial, narrow, or static way; of isolating them from men’s roles; […]

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A water programme in Vietnam and its impact on women

01/03/1992

14 pages long

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A water programme in Vietnam and its impact on women

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Evaluation is now recognised as an essential component in planning and implementing projects, and is one important means by which recipients can participate in the design process. In Vietnam, the liberalisation of the economic and social life of the country in the last few years has allowed Oxfam the scope to consider long-term development plans. […]

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Food aid, scarce resources, and difficult decisions

01/03/1992

8 pages long

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This article attempts to address the requirements of a methodology for evaluating food aid. It is an extension of an article by Fitzpatrick and Storey, which appeared in a recent issue of Development in Practice (Vol. 1, No. 3). The evaluation of food aid policies is considered from the perspective of a policy maker in […]

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Editorial

01/03/1992

2 pages long

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Book

Zimbabwe: A Land Divided

01/01/1992

1 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English

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Civil society

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Zimbabwe is a land divided – by its history as a British colony, and by its recent experience of liberation struggles and civil war. This book traces the evolution of a society that developed its own sophisticated culture over a thousand years ago, and is today recovering its own identity after a century of exploitation.

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Jamaica Debt and Poverty

01/01/1992

6 documents

81 pages long

Languages: English

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Jamaica’s mounting external debt problems throughout the 1980s, and the associated package of structural adjustment measures which the international lenders insisted on, gave rise to a rapidly deteriorating situation for many people in Jamaica, especially the poorest. Jamaica: Debt and Poverty examines the origins of Jamaica’s debt problems in both the structure of the Jamaican […]

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