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Power, institutions and gender relations: can gender training alter the equations?

01/05/1998

9 pages long

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Power, institutions and gender relations: can gender training alter the equations?

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NGOs, like other organisations, are gendered; that is, they reflect society’s power relations between men and women. The author argues that NGOs must begin a process of gender-sensitive institutional change, building equitable practices and attitudes in the long-term, benefiting and empowering NGO staff as well as impacting on their programme work, and strategic objectives. This […]

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Women’s empowerment and micro-finance programmes: strategies for increasing impact

01/05/1998

7 pages long

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Women’s empowerment and micro-finance programmes: strategies for increasing impact

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The Small Enterprise Development Fund of the Department for International Development (DFID) of the British Government commissioned a literature review and held workshops, both co-ordinated by ActionAid UK, to assess the impact of micro-finance schemes on women’s empowerment. Three broad approaches to micro-finance for women are identified as well as the constraints affecting impact in […]

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Testing environmental impacts of development projects

01/05/1998

6 pages long

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It is noted that identifying with protection and enhancement of natural resources as central to EC development support, articles 33-41 (of the Lome IV Convention) focuses on three principles: a preventive approach aimed at avoiding negative impacts on the environment as a result of any programme or operation; a systematic approach for ecological feasibility studies […]

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Editorial

01/05/1998

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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Development theatre and the process of re-empowerment: the Gibeon story

01/02/1998

13 pages long

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The author recounts his experience in developing Community Listening Theatre with RISE, a Namibian non-governmental organization that works in shanty-town districts and with dispossessed farming communities. In depicting their concerns through dramatic expression, previously diffident people began to address pressing political issues, and to challenge their own ‘self-oppression’, before proceeding to organize around specific issues, […]

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Video for recording and training in participatory development

01/02/1998

5 pages long

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The authors offer some initial thoughts on the potential of using video to record Participatory Rural Research (PRR) sessions, highlighting the medium’s apparent strengths and weaknesses compared to taking written notes and/or still photographs. They conclude that the use of video should be considered afresh in different contexts so as to determine whether its use […]

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SatelLife – linking information and people: the last ten centimetres

01/02/1998

6 pages long

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SatelLife was set up by the organisation International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) in 1985, with the aim of providing a forum for the involvement of medical colleagues in the South in discussion of health and peace issues. SatelLife set up and run a satellite linking service (HealthNet) providing email and a […]

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Paulo Freire 1921-1997 – a philosophy of hope, a life of practice

01/02/1998

4 pages long

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The author gives a personal account of the importance of the late Paolo Freire’s work and thinking. Freire’s influence can be seen in many of the ideals and practices of educationalists, community workers, and specifically adult-literacy workers across the globe. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

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A new age of social movements: a fifth generation of non-governmental development organizations in the making?

01/02/1998

14 pages long

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This paper addresses two themes. Firstly, it presents the historical evolution of Northern Non-governmental Development Organizations, proposing an enlarged and transformed definition based on Korten’s Generations. Secondly, it makes several recommendations for how to develop a hypothetical Fifth Generation of NGO-Northern and Southern alike whose activities might contribute to a very broad, diverse, and unpredictable […]

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The People’s Communication Charter

01/02/1998

7 pages long

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Many governments and international organisations have offered utopian visions of a Global Information Infrastructure (GII), a successor to the Internet, which will enable global sharing and communication. The development of the GII rests on the capacity of all nations to have access to the requisite technology, and the currently widening gap between access to PCs […]

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