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A day in the life of a development manager

01/02/1999

6 pages long

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Six development managers working for Health Projects Abroad in Tanzania provide an account of a typical working day, outlining their work, their frustrations, and the way they are perceived by local communities, for example. This Practical Note provides an insight into the pressures on managers, who must cope with day-to-day tasks while maintaining perspective on […]

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The development management task and reform of ‘public’ social services

01/02/1999

10 pages long

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With its emphasis on target-setting and performance measures, the New Public Management (NPM) appears to offer a coherent and ‘no-nonsense’ approach to public sector reform and the public management task. This article suggests that three questions require further thought: ‘Management of what?’, ‘Management by whom?’, and ‘How to manage?’ It considers these questions using the […]

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Finding out rapidly: a soft systems approach to training needs analysis in Thailand

01/02/1999

15 pages long

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Thailand is experiencing the unfamiliar phenomenon of aid and multilateral agencies such as the World Bank and Asian Development Bank lending money for internal development programmes. In the economic boom years, aid was neither sought nor required since structural development was funded from the growth which South-East Asian countries had begun to take for granted. […]

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Inclusive planning and allocation for rural services

01/02/1999

12 pages long

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The authors draw on experience from Uganda’s commitment to decentralisation. This commitment is transforming the way services are planned and financed; new associations between local governments, NGOs, and private sector agencies are being created. Much attention has focused on the adoption of various techniques-such as participatory rural appraisal-through which direct and intensive forms of participation […]

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Domestic violence, deportation, and women’s resistance: notes on managing inter-sectionality

01/02/1999

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Domestic violence, deportation, and women’s resistance: notes on managing inter-sectionality

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This Practical note describes the work of the Southall Black Sisters, a group, based in London, England, which provides a variety of assistance to, mainly Asian, women who have been victims of domestic violence and abuse. The author discusses how the UK legal system fails to help some of these women, as well as how […]

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Whose terms? Observations on ‘development management’ in an English city

01/02/1999

5 pages long

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Using the example of a project in Sheffield intended to promote user-involvement and participation in planning healthcare services, the author criticises the failure of the project to actually provide any forum for user-participation. The structures used to set up these partnerships are often too prescriptive, he argues, setting out a framework in which consultation may […]

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Northern words, Southern readings

01/02/1999

8 pages long

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The authors describe the phenomena of `perverse inertias’ – effects and tendencies which are the opposite of what was intended – in the context of Southern responses to Northern NGOs. Two specific impacts on recipient populations are discussed. `The project culture’, where `beneficiaries’ feel compelled to invent as many projects as they can, in line […]

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Editorial

01/02/1999

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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Relevance in the twenty-first century: the case for devolution and global association of international NGOs

01/02/1999

9 pages long

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What does organisational decentralisation mean? What types of decentralisation can NGDOs choose from and what appears to be occurring? The author sets out answers to these questions and proceeds to analyse the pressures and forces involved in choosing, pointing towards devolution as the preferred option. The author argues that globalisation calls for a truly international […]

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Information technology and the management of corruption

01/02/1999

6 pages long

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The author examines the perception that information technology (IT) can be used to stamp out corruption in organisations. Using examples of corrupt practices, he argues that, invariably, development managers should consider the underlying organisational and environmental causes of corruption rather than seeing the introduction of IT systems as a solution in itself. This article also […]

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