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Increasing strategic accountability: a framework for international NGOs

01/04/2007

18 pages long

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The accountability of international development NGOs (INGOs) has attracted a great deal of interest from academics and development practitioners. INGO accountability falls into two categories: practical accountability (for the use of inputs, the way activities are performed, and outputs) and strategic accountability for INGOs’ performance in relation to their mission. This article presents a conceptual […]

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Editorial

01/04/2007

2 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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Design for development: a review of emerging methodologies

01/04/2007

11 pages long

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This article reviews current methodologies for the design of development projects and identifies foundational reasons for conflict between design approaches and participatory methods. A number of alternative approaches to the design of interventions in social systems are examined, and the potential application of some of these new ideas within a visioning process that is based […]

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Gender justice: the World Bank’s new approach to the poor?

01/02/2007

13 pages long

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Gender justice: the World Bank’s new approach to the poor?

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Gender inequality is now widely acknowledged as an important factor in the spread and entrenchment of poverty. This article examines the World Development Report 2000/01 as the World Bank’s blueprint for addressing poverty in the twenty-first century, together with several more recent Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs), with a view to analysing the manner in […]

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Development versus enjoyment of life: a post-development critique of the developmentalist worldview

01/02/2007

8 pages long

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This article discusses the meaning of development from a post-development perspective, based on a case study of a goat-keeping project involving a small community of farmers from a rural town in north-east Brazil. The development project was fraught with conflicting views of development as it sought to impose an interventionist, ethnocentric, and modernist view of […]

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NGOs and the dynamics of the Egyptian labour market

01/02/2007

7 pages long

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This article discusses the role that NGOs play, not in their traditional role as service providers, but as employers in the Egyptian labour market. Over the past two decades, NGOs have been offering attractive job opportunities to middle-class professionals who are disillusioned with the private sector and no longer interested in joining the state bureaucracy. […]

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Capacity building through secondment of staff: a possible model in emergencies?

01/02/2007

10 pages long

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This article offers a case study of a secondment of staff from a Northern NGO (Trócaire) to a Southern partner, the Catholic Development Commission (CADECOM) of Malawi, as a possible model for capacity building. The approach described was tried in the context of an emergency programme, but it could also be used in a development […]

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Researching urban poverty in sub-Saharan Africa

01/02/2007

12 pages long

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Poverty and the way in which it is researched are major preoccupations for many social scientists. This article presents different ways of researching urban poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on qualitative methods and the different ways in which these can be used to collect data. Examples are drawn from field research conducted in urban areas […]

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Ni Vanuatu women graduates: what happens when they go home?

01/02/2007

7 pages long

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Part of New Zealand’s aid to Pacific Island nations is given in the form of tertiary scholarships. Students awarded scholarships study at tertiary institutions throughout the Pacific, including New Zealand. But what is it like when they return home, fitting back into their culture and family life, and finding work? The research described in this […]

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Strategising prevention: a critical review of local initiatives to prevent female sex trafficking

01/02/2007

14 pages long

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Strategising prevention: a critical review of local initiatives to prevent female sex trafficking

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This article reviews prevention strategies initiated and implemented by NGOs across the globe to address female sex trafficking. It sets out the conceptual bases for anti-trafficking measures in general, and prevention measures in particular, before presenting a representative cross-section of programmes and approaches that are currently underway. The authors identify some of the gaps apparent […]

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