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Learners will use case studies and facts from around the world to assist them in dispelling those persistent aid myths, and consider ways in which they could campaign for its importance. Learn about […] View resource Book Managing Water Locally: An essential dimension of community water development 08/11/2011 1 documents 96 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Climate change adaptation Health promotion Natural resources Participation WASH Water and sanitation Overview Communities are frequently excluded from important aspects of environmental management. But they can play a fundamental role in the management of common pool resources such as water. This is particularly true when state capacity is weak or when communities remain on the periphery of support from any government. Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) has been […] View resource Journal article Attitude counts: engaging with rice farmers in West Africa 01/08/2011 15 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Capacity building Development in Practice Journal Development methods DiP Food production Livelihoods Training Overview An international project called PADS promoted participatory learning and action research with inland valley rainfed rice farmers in West Africa. All countries received the same training, similar funding, and the same leadership. Although the staff in Ghana were conscientious and gave much training to the farmer beneficiaries, the Mali staff explicitly encouraged farmers to experiment. […] View resource Research report Making Growth Inclusive: Some lessons from countries and the literature 26/04/2011 1 documents 43 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Climate change adaptation Finance MDGs Millenium Development Goals Overview Growth is back on the development agenda, promoted by bilateral and multilateral donors, and the G20, as the most effective way to lift people out of poverty. Economic growth has reduced poverty in developing countries in the past, but by ignoring the issue of equality, donors and poor country governments have failed to maximise the […] View resource Journal article The impact of agricultural research: evidence from West Africa 01/11/2010 12 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Development in Practice Journal Development methods DiP Food security Overview Can agricultural research help to enlist smallholders and their resources for global food security? The Convergence of Sciences (CoS) research programme in Benin and Ghana (2002-2006) tested the impact of technology development, using a pathway for impact which featured ‘technographies’, diagnostic studies, and farmer-experimenter groups to ensure appropriateness. Within the existing small windows of opportunity […] View resource Journal article Whose lives are worth more? Politicising research safety in developing countries 01/09/2010 13 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Development in Practice Journal Development methods DiP Overview This article develops the ‘safety-emotion-power’ nexus and highlights the role of emotion in research by politicising the unequal power relationships between researchers and NGO staff members in defining danger and negotiating safety in their fieldwork. Drawing on the author’s research experiences in Bangladesh and Ghana, it argues that research touching on emotion-laden topics can inflict […] View resource Journal article Reaching the underserved with complementary education: lessons from Ghana’s state and non-state sectors 01/06/2010 13 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Development methods Overview Between 1995-06 and 2005-06, more than 85,000 children between the ages of 8 and 14 years participated in a complementary education programme in rural areas of northern Ghana. School for Life, a non-profit organisation, provides nine months of instruction in the children’s spoken language. An impact assessment of the programme demonstrates that complementary education programmes […] View resource Journal article Gold mining and corporate social responsibility in the Wassa West district, Ghana 01/05/2010 13 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Development methods Livelihoods Overview Despite a boom in gold mining in Ghana’s Wassa West district (WWD), unemployment and poverty have deepened, partly due to loss of farmland to surface mining but more so because of the limited opportunities for wage employment in the district’s ‘revived’ gold-mining industry. However, the large-scale mining companies are implementing some alternative livelihood programmes (ALPs) […] View resource Journal article I cannot drink water on an empty stomach: a gender perspective on living with drought 01/03/2010 10 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture GaD Gender and Development Journal Livelihoods WASH Water and sanitation Overview This article discusses the impact of drought on livelihoods of agro-based rural communities in the Volta Region of Ghana, and how rural women and men attempt to survive during drought periods. Drought, which negatively affects both women and men in some respects, affects women more due to their combined reproductive and productive workload. Focusing on […] View resource Research report Aid For Agriculture: Turning promises into reality co-ordinating donor interventions in three west African countries 06/11/2009 3 documents 51 pages long Languages: English, French Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Food security Overview Since the beginning of the 1980s, the agricultural sector has gradually dropped down the list of priorities for state development aid in West Africa, as well as that of national policies. At the same time, more people in the region are going hungry, due in part to the recent hike in food prices. In Burkina […] View resource Posts navigation Prev page Page 1 … Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 … Page 10 Next page Spotted an error? Let us know