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Community-based animal health care in Zambia

01/05/1999

5 pages long

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The author gives an account of a partnership between a UK-based NGO and the Zambian government, designed to encourage `smallholder farmers to form `cattle clubs’ [to] operate and manage community cattle-spraying points on a full cost-recovery basis’. The project’s success has been tempered by changes in the external environment and the perceptions of the farmers, […]

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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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Contested Lands in Southern and Eastern Africa: A literature survey

01/01/1997

5 documents

310 pages long

Languages: English

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Questions of land tenure and land reform, and their impact on poor and vulnerable communities, are of vital importance throughout Southern and Eastern Africa. From the vast literature on the subject, Robin Palmer has selected and summarised more than 300 recent books, articles, academic theses, and reports of conferences and workshops. This survey includes studies […]

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Urban women’s informal savings and credit systems in Zambia

01/05/1996

9 pages long

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Research round up. Also includes ‘Urban management and public-service provision in Chittagong, Nairobi, and Sao Paulo’. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

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Bridging the ‘macro’-‘micro’ divide in policy-oriented research

01/11/1995

11 pages long

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There is a recognised tension between the development practitioner’s need for timely intelligence on key topics, and the normal routines of academic development studies. Closing that gap involves, among other things, elaborating new ways of organising and doing research. This article, by an academic, is concerned especially with how to combine interactive rapid-appraisal methods with […]

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Disaster without memory: Oxfam’s drought programme in Zambia

01/05/1994

11 pages long

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In Southern Africa, a major drought during 1992-93 threatened devastating consequences for poor rural populations in the region. The article describes the unconventional approach to disaster mitigation undertaken by Oxfam (UK and Ireland) in Zambia. This enabled people at the local level, with little prior organisational experience, to establish effective dialogue with government officials in […]

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Investment finance: off limits for women

01/10/1993

2 pages long

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Investment finance: off limits for women

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Only one in ten of Zambians in business are women. Those involved in economic investment have relied upon male connections in the Government and private sector. This articles explores why it is hard for women to access finance, making them dependent on the informal sector, and why the few businesswomen there are have ‘feminine’ lines […]

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An enterprise-development strategy for Zambia

01/05/1993

13 pages long

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Although Zambia’s deteriorating macro-economic situation has created a difficult environment for business, it also creates opportunities for the emergence of small and micro enterprises. Recent government policy reforms affecting these firms are discussed, along with existing programmes for credit, training, technical assistance, and common-site facilities/business incubators. The current programmes are limited in scope relative to […]

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Women in the Eastern Province: more hit by drought and yet more enduring

01/02/1993

4 pages long

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Women in the Eastern Province: more hit by drought and yet more enduring

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In response to the 1992 drought in the Eastern province of Zambia, Oxfam held four community workshops in which local people decided upon action to address their most urgent needs. Hundreds of women attended our four workshops in the worst hit areas of Petauke and Nyimba: Luembe, Nyalugwe, Kalindawalo and Mwape. The women who came […]

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Background to the drought

01/02/1993

2 pages long

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In response to the 1992 drought in the Eastern province of Zambia, Oxfam held four community workshops in which local people decided upon action to address their most urgent needs. Reports from these workshops show how women suffer in times of drought, walking vast distances in search of food and water for their families. But […]

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