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Shea butter: connecting rural Burkinabè women to international markets through fair trade

01/08/2006

11 pages long

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Processed by rural West African women and desired by wealthy Northern consumers of natural beauty products, shea butter seems a prime candidate for fair trade, yet to date there has been little study of the industry. This article analyses the opportunities and constraints of the development of fair-trade exports of shea butter from Burkina Faso, […]

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Accountability and effectiveness of NGOs: adapting business tools successfully

01/08/2006

13 pages long

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The central argument of this article is that many of the tools developed to strengthen for-profit businesses can be applied to NGOs to make them more effective and accountable. The authors address a gap in the development literature by defining and describing how business tools can be effectively transferred to NGOs. They examine the implementation […]

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The power of participatory monitoring and evaluation: insights from south-west China

01/08/2006

12 pages long

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This article examines the capacity-building experiences of two research teams in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces in south-west China who used participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) to strengthen their development research, particularly in the area of natural-resource management (NRM). The authors describe their efforts to incorporate PM&E practices in their work. The process proved challenging, despite […]

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Aquaculture in Vietnam: development perspectives

01/08/2006

6 pages long

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Thanks to the range of natural resources and the wealth of human capital, Vietnam is well placed to develop its aquaculture sector. Although it is one of the world’s largest producers of seafoods, Vietnam faces environmental and food security problems, and adequate planning is therefore a critical issue if aquaculture is to be developed in […]

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The role of Ministries of Finance in implementing the ‘Three Ones’

01/08/2006

6 pages long

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Ministries of Finance (MoF) cannot ignore the major challenge to development posed by HIV/AIDS. To tackle the epidemic a new comprehensive and consistent approach is required: HIV/AIDS must be mainstreamed. This paper investigates the instruments MoF do, can, and should employ in order to be proactive and effective in mainstreaming HIV/AIDS through supporting the implementation […]

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Micro-credit in Spain: a comparison with the Southern approach

01/08/2006

8 pages long

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Summary: Microcredit is a means of providing financial services to people who lack access to conventional credit sources. New programmes in the North are endeavour to emulate successful experiences in the South. But such programmes have their own characteristics that differentiate them from those in the South, as illustrated in a case study of experience […]

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Can Business Development Services practitioners learn from theories of innovation and services marketing?

01/08/2006

16 pages long

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Business Development Services (BDS) programmes have become big business for international donors and NGOs. Focusing on small enterprises in developing countries, the current BDS approach assumes that the development of commercial markets is the key to success. Yet many of these programmes continue to have a limited impact. A review of modern theories of innovation […]

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Editorial

01/08/2006

2 pages long

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Enhancing learning in development partnerships

01/08/2006

15 pages long

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Through an analysis of practical examples and key literature, this article considers what will enhance learning in and between NGOs and other development partners. The authors explore how the types and qualities of relationship currently evolving in the development sector affect learning, drawing predominantly on experiences of relationships between Northern and Southern NGOs. The article […]

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Humanitarianism and politics: the dangers of contrived separation

01/06/2006

13 pages long

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Humanitarianism and politics are more often than not considered to be separate from each other, despite the increasing complexity of contemporary conflict. This article highlights the specifics of the flight of one renegade soldier and some 300 of his men from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to Rwanda, at a time when the […]

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