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Development? Freedom? Whose development and freedom?

01/04/2006

8 pages long

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This paper critiques the ‘freedom-centred’ view of development by arguing that while development must be about expanding peoples’ freedoms, the dynamics of power between ‘developers’ and ‘developees’ must not be ignored. There is little analysis of the implications of multi-party political system (seemingly equated with democracy) in facilitating development and freedom. Using Malawi as an […]

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Evaluating gender mainstreaming in development projects

01/04/2006

6 pages long

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Evaluating gender mainstreaming in development projects

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Gender mainstreaming was established in the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action as a major strategy for the promotion of gender equality. As a development strategy, gender mainstreaming requires attention to gender perspectives, making them visible and showing the links between gender equality and the achievement of development goals. To evaluate gender mainstreaming in development projects […]

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Scaling-up natural resource management: insights from research in Latin America

01/04/2006

13 pages long

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Scaling-up local innovations in natural resource management (NRM) involves learning that is centred around three themes: promoting local-level innovation, understanding why local innovations work in specific contexts, and reflecting on their relevance in other geographical and social contexts. Successful scaling-up depends in part upon the relationships among multiple stakeholders at different levels around this learning. […]

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Gender and evidence-based planning: the CIET methods

01/04/2006

12 pages long

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Gender and evidence-based planning: the CIET methods

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Epidemiological combined with experiential evidence from communities can produce important and sometimes surprising insights into gender relations, to inform policies that address changing needs. CIET has standardised a community-based cross-design for the gender-sensitive collection and analysis of three types of evidence: impact, coverage, and costs. Five steps help to ensure that women’s voices are heard […]

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Editorial

01/04/2006

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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Urban agriculture: addressing practical and strategic gender needs

01/02/2006

11 pages long

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Urban agriculture: addressing practical and strategic gender needs

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This paper considers the role of urban agriculture in addressing the practical and strategic needs of African women, and assesses the gender implications of embracing urban agriculture as a development intervention strategy. Empirical evidence from Botswana and Zimbabwe points to the multi-faceted role of urban agriculture whereby some women use this activity to support their […]

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Changes in the lives of the ultra poor: an exploratory study

01/02/2006

5 pages long

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This Research Roundup reports on the pilot phase of BRAC’s æChallenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction/Targeting the Ultra Poor Programme’ (CFPR/TUP), which was initiated in three of the poorest districts of northern Bangladesh (Nilphamari, Rangpur, and Kurigram) in January 2002. The authors find a close link between the initial conditions of the programme participants and […]

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Forestry income management and poverty reduction: empirical findings from Kongo, Cameroon

01/02/2006

6 pages long

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This article examines different uses of forest-based incomes by local communities in Cameroon. Following, the 1994 forestry legislation, local communities have had the opportunity to derive income from forests in the form of annual fees from logging companies, and through the creation of community forests. Currently, several village communities are benefiting from these financial mechanisms, […]

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Partnerships, learning, and development: a case study from Ghana

01/02/2006

12 pages long

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Decades of development practice suggest the fundamental importance of improving aid-delivery systems and stakeholder competence in order to improve the well-being of poor people. However, it is questionable whether the aid system is able to change its attitudes and values through such partnerships in a way that will do this. This paper suggests that for […]

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Developing leaders? developing countries?

01/02/2006

11 pages long

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A visit to Ghana, with the hosts interested in developing leaders and the guest interested in developing countries, led to a questioning of both. Three approaches to development are discussed. The top-down government planning approach, discredited with the fall of communism, has been replaced by an outside-in ‘globalisation’ approach, which is now promoted as the […]

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