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Assessing the impact of a UK neighbourhood project 01/08/2000 17 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Aid effectiveness Development in Practice Journal Development methods DiP M&E Monitoring and evaluation Overview The question of how development agencies should assess their impact has no simple answers and so is often either unasked, or is framed in terms that privilege time-bound and quantitative findings. Describing a council estate neighbourhood project in the UK, the author probes the understandings and perceptions of different stakeholders concerning what they believe has […] View resource Discussion paper Listening to the Displaced: Action research in the conflict zones of Sri Lanka 01/01/2000 1 documents 69 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Aid effectiveness Conflict Disasters Protection Refugees and IDPs Research methods Overview Intense conflict in northern Sri Lanka between government forces and the secessionist Tamil Tigers has displaced hundreds of thousands of civilians from their homes. Their living conditions are harsh and insecure, despite the efforts of humanitarian agencies to alleviate them. In 1996 Oxfam GB began the first in a series of annual surveys to assess […] View resource Journal article Changing aid patterns in Southern Africa 01/05/1999 14 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Aid effectiveness Development in Practice Journal Development methods DiP Overview The paper argues that the increase in official development assistance to South Africa following its transition to majority rule was largely at the expense of other countries in the region. While this refocusing of aid has been aimed at disadvantaged black groups, it will also reinforce the regional dominance of the South African economy. Aid […] View resource Journal article Letter from Honduras, 5 November 1998 01/05/1999 2 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Aid effectiveness Conflict Development methods Disasters Overview The author wrote this open letter to her friends in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Mitch, from the capital of Honduras, Tegucigalpa. She describes the devastation, how nearby countries have sent assistance, and her fears for the future. View resource Book Development in States of War: Selected articles from Development in Practice 01/01/1996 2 documents 114 pages long Languages: English, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Aid effectiveness Conflict Development methods Disasters Humanitarian practice Protection Overview Humanitarian relief has always focused on meeting the needs of people affected by war and armed conflict. Today, the same is increasingly true of development programmes. The challenge for aid agencies is not only to apply development principles to their emergency work, but also to address the issues arising from the reality of military conflict […] View resource Book Reducing Risk: Participatory teaming activities for disaster mitigation in Southern Africa 01/01/1996 9 documents 339 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Aid effectiveness Conflict Disaster risk reduction Disasters DRR Participation Training Overview In 1991 -92 Southern Africa was severely affected by the region’s “worst drought in living memory”. The response which followed drew together the international community with Southern Africa’s governments, NGOs, and private companies to mitigate the drought’s impact. In partnership with the Department of Adult and Community Education at the University of Natal, the Regional […] View resource Journal article Research into local culture: Implications for participatory development 01/03/1993 4 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Aid effectiveness Development in Practice Journal Development methods DiP Overview This paper examines the importance of culture and participation in development efforts. In this regard, it looks at the problems which have arisen as the result of those receiving aid, being regarded as objects rather than subjects with their own culture and behavioural patterns. The paper looks at why research into culture is important, and […] View resource Journal article Women in environmental disasters: the 1991 cyclone in Bangladesh 01/02/1993 6 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Aid effectiveness Conflict Disasters GaD Gender and Development Journal Overview The author is a female relief worker who has seen first-hand how women are more vulnerable than men to natural disasters, and in their aftermath. She explores why women are more likely to die in environmental disasters, and why emergency relief aid often fails to benefit women. Begum makes recommendations for ensuring that women’s needs […] View resource Book Food Scarcity and Famine: Assessment and response 01/01/1992 1 documents 128 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Aid effectiveness Food security Humanitarian practice Overview Where people are suffering from food scarcity or famine, the obvious response seems to be food aid. This may indeed be necessary, but handing out food may not be the best solution, and other actions could be equally urgent, such as public health or income-support measures. Food Scarcity and Famine provides a new approach to […] View resource Journal article Relief and rehabilitation work in Mozambique: Institutional capacity and NGO executional strategies 01/11/1991 11 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Aid effectiveness Development in Practice Journal Development methods DiP Overview The nature of the Mozambique ’emergencies and its institutional context pose a significant challenge to NGO aid strategies, as these organisations seek to reconcile objectives of short-term effectiveness and accountability with goals of long-term capacity-building and sustainability. The increasing emphasis on the former within the Zambezia Province Emergency Programme may be prejudicing the government’s capacity […] View resource Posts navigation Prev page Page 1 … Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Next page Spotted an error? Let us know