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Brazil

01/01/2000

4 documents

89 pages long

Languages: English

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Brazil is the fifth-largest country in the world, with an economy bigger than China’s and a population larger than Russia’s. It is rich in natural resources, and its cities are highly industrialised. It is a wealthy country – but in terms of human development it is one of the most unequal countries in the world. […]

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Fundraising in Brazil: the major implications for civil society organisations and international NGOs

01/02/1999

14 pages long

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This paper looks at the opportunities for civil society organisations (CSOs) in Brazil to increase and diversify income. It demonstrates the range of potential new sources of funds, including the Brazilian public, commercial activities, and government institutions. The role of volunteers is also addressed. The institutional and cultural changes that CSOs must make in order […]

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Development and Social Action

01/01/1999

1 documents

195 pages long

Languages: English

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Civil-society organisations are playing an increasingly prominent role in promoting policy change in favour of poor people, whether through advocacy or through direct action mid popular mobilisation. In the global realignment following the end of the Cold War. the challenge is to move from mere protest and opposition to constructive forms of engagement, both with […]

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Accountable Aid: Local Participation in Major Projects

01/01/1998

1 documents

177 pages long

Languages: English

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Accountable Aid evaluates participatory approaches to natural resource management by contrasting the different attitudes and methodologies of three international development institutions, through a critical study of the social and environmental impact of three major projects: the World Bank and the Rondonia Natural Resource Management Project (PLANAFLORO) in Brazil.

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Development and Rights

01/01/1998

2 documents

192 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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The fiftieth anniversary of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights prompts a re-examination of the links between ‘development’ and the range of economic, social, political, and cultural rights enshrined within it. Chronic poverty is a flagrant denial of what the international community once hailed as the basic rights and fundamental freedoms on which our […]

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Brazilian NGOs: from grassroots to national civic leadership

01/08/1996

12 pages long

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Project notes. Also includes ‘An NGO scales up in Gujerat’. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

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‘I, Black Woman, Resist!’

01/02/1995

4 pages long

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Alzira Rufino, feminist and activist, founded the Casa de Cultura da Mulher Negra, the Black Women’s House of Culture, which was the first black women’s centre in Brazil. The centre was opened in the city of Santos in 1990 and is run by the Black Women’s Collective of Baixada Santista, with funding support from War […]

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Towards international solidarity

01/10/1994

3 pages long

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Vanete Almeida, from Brazil, is one of eight Southern women activists who visited Britain in 1992 to meet with women from a variety of kindred organisations in the UK and Ireland, to share their experiences of work, discuss commonalities and differences in their vision, and find ways of cooperating and supporting each other. The following […]

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Women’s health and feminist politics

01/06/1994

4 pages long

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SOF is an NGO working to raise living standards and gain health and reproductive rights for poor women in south-eastern Brazil. Faure charts SOF’s progress from a family planning to a feminist organisation. It works alongside women’s and health movements and has achieved considerable success, instigating change in health infrastructures and policies, and integrating women […]

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Land reform in South Africa: Lessons from Latin America

01/05/1994

7 pages long

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Land distribution in South Africa has always favoured white farmers. This article examines lessons from the history of land reform policies in Brazil, Bolivia and Chile, looking at problems of rural poverty, landlessness and dispossession. Political developments in South Africa may limit the scope for land reform. In October 1993, the World Bank presented its […]

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