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Sustainable development at the sharp end

01/08/1997

11 pages long

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This paper takes an actor-oriented approach to understanding the significance for policy and practice of field-worker experience at the interface between project and people. It is set in the context of an Indian project which aims to reduce poverty through sustainable, participatory agricultural change, based on low-cost inputs, catalysed by village-based project staff. Diaries kept […]

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Framing participation: Development projects, professionals, and organisations

01/08/1997

8 pages long

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Major efforts have been made by development organisations to make their systems of project and programme management more participatory, in order to be accountable to local participants (or beneficiaries), while also creating opportunities for them to shape their own processes. These measures may look participatory, but have in effect become new (and often costly) forms […]

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Empowerment and survival: humanitarian work in civil conflict

01/02/1997

9 pages long

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This two-part article explores the experience of living and working for poverty focused NGOs in a civil war whose roots lay in the chronically inequitable distribution of power and access to resources. Drawing on 12 years’ work in Central America, the author reflects on the demands and constraints placed on international aid workers in the […]

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Empowerment and survival

01/11/1996

10 pages long

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This two-part article explores the experience of living and working for poverty-focused NGOs in a civil war whose roots lay in the chronically inequitable distribution of power and access to resources. Based on 12 years’ work in Central America, the article reflects on the demands and constraints placed on international aid workers in the context […]

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Depoliticising development: the uses and abuses of participation

01/02/1996

10 pages long

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Participation must be seen as political. There are always tensions underlying issues such as who is involved, how, and on whose terms. While participation has the potential to challenge patterns of dominance, it may also be the means through which existing power relations are entrenched and reproduced. The arenas in which people perceive their interests […]

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Participation in the city: where do women fit in?

01/02/1996

8 pages long

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Participation in the city: where do women fit in?

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Women’s priorities have often been ignored in the design of human settlements, the location of housing, and the provision of urban services. New forms of urban partnership are needed, to develop participatory processes that include women and men at all stages of urban development. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For […]

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Reducing Risk: Participatory teaming activities for disaster mitigation in Southern Africa

01/01/1996

9 documents

339 pages long

Languages: English

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In 1991 -92 Southern Africa was severely affected by the region’s “worst drought in living memory”. The response which followed drew together the international community with Southern Africa’s governments, NGOs, and private companies to mitigate the drought’s impact. In partnership with the Department of Adult and Community Education at the University of Natal, the Regional […]

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Algerian women and political choice a time of transition

01/10/1995

6 pages long

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Algerian women and political choice a time of transition

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Currently, Algerian women are facing a major crisis. In a complex and changing political environment, the status of women is at stake, threatened by conservative forces associated with Islam, which are likely to win in Algeria’s forthcoming multi-party elections. How are women involving themselves in politics to determine the course of the election. This article […]

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Culture, liberation, and ‘development’

01/08/1995

9 pages long

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Most of the socio-economic changes taking place in Africa and much of the South are externally driven. External agencies, often in league with the State, by-pass working people and do not involve them in the decision-making processes. Their economic approaches ignore people’s cultures and their world view. This denies working people a creative capacity to […]

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The Philippines: Debt and Poverty

01/01/1991

3 documents

121 pages long

Languages: English

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How could the Philippines, a country rich in natural and human resources, find itself by 1990 in the position of the sixth most indebted nation in the world? Rosalinda Pineda-Ofreneo traces the origins of the nation’s debt crisis, and – with evidence from projects supported by Oxfam – she illustrates the social and environmental impact […]

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