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‘But you can’t compare Malawi and Ireland!’ – shifting boundaries in a globalised world

01/05/2010

12 pages long

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Although global influences – in the form of international finance coupled with discourses of partnership, participation, good governance, and democracy – exercise an increasing influence on national and local governance arrangements worldwide, comparative studies across the traditional South/North divide remain extremely rare. Drawing on findings from a comparative study of Malawi’s PRSP and Ireland’s national […]

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Failed aid: how development agencies are neglecting and marginalising Rwandan genocide survivors

01/05/2010

17 pages long

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This Viewpoint argues that international development aid agencies have failed adequately to address the rights and needs of genocide survivors in Rwanda. It illustrates that genocide survivors remain impoverished and marginalised, and that development aid agencies only tangentially, if at all, acknowledge their vulnerability and take steps to empower them to realise their rights. It […]

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Money, power, and donor-NGO partnerships

01/05/2010

10 pages long

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The term ‘partnership’ can be considered something of a Trojan Horse, disguising the reality of the complex relationships in imbalances of power and inequality, often expressed through the control of one ‘partner’ over the other. With particular reference to the experience of a small, UK-based NGO working in Uganda (Hives Save Lives – Africa), this […]

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The learning organisation as a model for rural development

01/05/2010

13 pages long

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This article presents evidence from Uganda’s National Agricultural Advisory Service to argue that the concept of ‘the learning organisation’ is a valuable complement to participatory development which may facilitate a shift towards more democratic development institutions in which target beneficiaries have a stronger voice in planning and managing development. The concept of ‘the learning organisation’ […]

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Enhancing rural learning, linkages, and institutions: the rice videos in Africa

01/05/2010

8 pages long

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Africa Rice Centre (WARDA) facilitated the development and translation of 11 rice videos. From 2005 to 2009, WARDA partners translated them into more than 30 African languages. Open-air video presentations enhanced learning, experimentation, confidence, trust, and group cohesion among rural people. The videos strengthened capacities of more than 500 organisations and hundreds of thousands of […]

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Communities of practice’: prospects for theory and action in participatory development

01/05/2010

11 pages long

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‘The myth of community’ permeates both the understanding and the practice of participatory development. Yet the idea that communities exist as coherent units of people who inhabit bounded geographic spaces and are ready to be mobilised for development restricts the very agency that participation promises. This article offers an alternative model of community: one that […]

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Editorial

01/05/2010

3 pages long

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This article does not have a description. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

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Participation in the Knowledge Society: the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement compared with participatory development

01/04/2010

7 pages long

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The possibilities and limits of participation at the ‘bottom’ (represented, for example, by PRA and PLA) have been well articulated in development literature. However, the emergence of the Knowledge Society has opened up spaces for what we could call participation at the ‘top’ (free software, wiki, open access), the implications of which Development Studies is […]

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Analysing wellbeing: a framework for development practice

01/04/2010

15 pages long

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This article presents a framework for analysing wellbeing in development practice, drawing on the work of the Wellbeing in Developing Countries Research Group (WeD). Wellbeing is viewed as a social process with material, relational, and subjective dimensions. Wellbeing may be assessed at individual and collective levels, but at base is something that happens in relationship […]

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Enhancing the effectiveness of international development: a systems approach

01/04/2010

14 pages long

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Every day 25,000 people die of hunger and hunger-related causes. While it is recognised that the international development system is not as effective as it should be, years of endeavours to achieve greater harmonisation of international aid and to create an effective architecture pass by without adequate results. The article introduces a framework for enhancing […]

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