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Project planning with people’s participation

01/11/1994

5 pages long

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In 1979, the Government of Norway pledged financial support to launch an Integrated Rural Development Programme in Hambantota, Sri Lanka, which aimed to increase income, employment and production as well as improvement of social conditions and living standards of the people in the area, with special emphasis on the poorest groups. The process involved data […]

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The ethics of immigration controls: Issues for development NGOs

01/11/1994

11 pages long

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It can be argued that immigration restrictions constitute a form of ‘global apartheid’, ensuring that poorer sections of world society are prevented, by legal and physical force, from sharing in the world’s sum of riches. This article seeks to develop this theme, by arguing that immigration controls are based on dubious ethical and practical foundations, […]

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New directions for pastoral development in Africa

01/11/1994

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The last few years have seen a major rethinking of some of the hallowed assumptions of range ecology and range-management practice. The usefulness of terms such as ‘vegetation succession’s, ‘carrying capacity’s, and ‘desertification’s is being reassessed, particularly for the dry rangelands which are dominated by highly variable rainfall and episodic, chance events such as drought. […]

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Refugee repatriation during conflict: Protection and post-return assistance

01/11/1994

15 pages long

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This article reports on the findings of the International Study of Spontaneous Voluntary Repatriation, begun by the authors in 1986, and involving case studies on return to countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. It discusses the lack of recognition in both policy and practice of the pervasiveness of refugee-induced repatriation, and of repatriation during […]

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Family tracing: In whose interests?

01/11/1994

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This article is based on research commissioned by Save the Children Fund (SCF) into five family-tracing programmes in five African countries. The author describes the stages involved in tracing the families of children, and highlights the efforts that must be made at each stage to ensure the interests of each child are paramount, and are […]

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Operationality in turbulence: the need for change

01/11/1994

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What are the implications for NGOs of the increasingly unpredictable environment in which they work? This article highlights lessons from the natural sciences and from private-sector management. If development is about the process of change, then we need a more refined analysis of what change is. Food crises and conflicts are about struggles over power […]

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Editorial

01/11/1994

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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Invisible threads

01/10/1994

6 pages long

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Two case studies from Guatemala and Bangladesh illustrate Oxfam’s Fair Trade programme. This seeks to foster relations between Southern producers and Northern consumers, ensuring the former fair livelihoods, and communicating the fair trade message to the latter. Multiple connecting threads lie at the heart of the programme. The vast majority of participants are women, because […]

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Towards international solidarity

01/10/1994

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Vanete Almeida, from Brazil, is one of eight Southern women activists who visited Britain in 1992 to meet with women from a variety of kindred organisations in the UK and Ireland, to share their experiences of work, discuss commonalities and differences in their vision, and find ways of cooperating and supporting each other. The following […]

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Breaking down the barriers

01/10/1994

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China remains a closed society and there is a lack of information in the North about its women. It is easy to see the denial of Chinese women’s rights without also appreciating their achievements. A 1994 summer school at the ‘Great Britain-China Centre’ aimed to forge understanding between Chinese and British women. It looked at […]

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