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Technical briefing

Household Water Treatment and Storage

03/06/2008

1 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Historically, interventions to provide people with safe water have focussed on improving water sources. However there is now a consensus among the WatSan community that even if the drinking water source is safe it can easily be re-contaminated during its transportation and storage in the household (Clasen and Bastable, 2003). A safe water intervention should […]

Briefing paper

Protection of Civilians in 2010: Facts, Figures, and the UN Security Council’s response

09/05/2011

3 documents

41 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Overview

In 2010, millions of men, women, and children were killed, raped, displaced, injured, or recruited by force in armed conflicts throughout the world. Whether caught in the crossfire or deliberately targeted, civilians too often suffer disproportionately as a result of conflict. The primary obligation to protect civilians affected by conflict lies with national governments and […]

Journal article

Environmental reform in Brazil: advances and reversals

01/03/1992

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

It is now two years since the Government of President Fernando Collor de Mello took office in Brazil. This article assesses its effectiveness in implementing its environmental policies and resolving social conflicts in the Amazon in the run-up to the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development. It examines some of the political and […]

Journal article

Sustainable self-help development efforts in the Cameroon grassfields

01/08/1998

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

It is argued that community development can contribute to national development, in conjunction with other phenomena. Village-level development efforts depend on the dynamism of community groups. The populations of the Cameroon grass fields possess the creative capacity to adapt new techniques and knowledge to their local realities. The paper identifies the critical factors that influence […]

Journal article

Pre-departure briefing for aid workers

01/08/1998

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Development methods

Overview

This Research Round-Up provides a brief literature review of the use of pre-departure briefings (PDBs) for NGO staff delivering overseas aid programmes, especially from the point of view of Australian NGOs. The professionalism, productivity and effectiveness of aid workers can be enhanced using improved human resource management. The author reports the results of a questionnaire […]

Journal article

An endogenous empowerment strategy: a case-study of Nigerian women

01/02/1999

12 pages long

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An endogenous empowerment strategy: a case-study of Nigerian women

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Overview

The paper presents a potentially effective empowerment strategy for women, using Nigeria as a case-study. The strategy evolves from an evaluation of recent empowerment strategies in Nigeria, empowerment concepts, and Karl’s (1995) scheme of empowerment. The author argues that the empowerment of women (understood as enhancing their capacity to influence and participate in making decisions […]

Journal article

Tools for project development within a public action framework

01/02/1999

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

This paper focuses on the contradictory relationship between tools, always open to criticism as technocratic and mechanistic, and processes of development. It focuses on the tools often known as Logical Framework Approach (LFA) which are increasingly used as process tools by many different agencies, including those who espouse values of participation and empowerment. We assess […]

Journal article

Addressing urban poverty: increasing incomes, reducing costs, and securing representation

01/05/2000

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

The paper considers the effectiveness of different strategies used in urban areas by development agencies to reduce poverty, including the relative merits of income generation and housing and neighbourhood improvement. Drawing on the findings of recent case studies, it suggests that the advantages of housing and neighbourhood improvements may have been underestimated, and that too […]

Journal article

Heroism and ambiguity: NGO advocacy in international policy

01/08/2000

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

NGO advocacy is sometimes portrayed in a heroic light, but efforts to influence World Bank-supported economic policies confront considerable ambiguity. Influence is difficult to demonstrate, but advocacy should be more rigorously assessed in the interest of transparency and effectiveness. Two (partial) solutions to this ambiguity are to focus on the process of NGO campaigns themselves; […]

Journal article

Scaling up adoption and impact of agroforestry technologies: experiences from western Kenya

01/08/2001

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Community-based organisations are increasingly considered a sustainable way to scale up the benefits of agricultural research and development from a few farmers in isolated pilot project areas to spread more widely across geographical and socio-economic gradients, and to do so quickly. This paper describes and highlights lessons learned from several research and development organisations in […]

Showing 308 matching results from Policy & Practice

Technical briefing

Household Water Treatment and Storage

03/06/2008

1 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Historically, interventions to provide people with safe water have focussed on improving water sources. However there is now a consensus among the WatSan community that even if the drinking water source is safe it can easily be re-contaminated during its transportation and storage in the household (Clasen and Bastable, 2003). A safe water intervention should […]

Briefing paper

Protection of Civilians in 2010: Facts, Figures, and the UN Security Council’s response

09/05/2011

3 documents

41 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

In 2010, millions of men, women, and children were killed, raped, displaced, injured, or recruited by force in armed conflicts throughout the world. Whether caught in the crossfire or deliberately targeted, civilians too often suffer disproportionately as a result of conflict. The primary obligation to protect civilians affected by conflict lies with national governments and […]

Journal article

Environmental reform in Brazil: advances and reversals

01/03/1992

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

It is now two years since the Government of President Fernando Collor de Mello took office in Brazil. This article assesses its effectiveness in implementing its environmental policies and resolving social conflicts in the Amazon in the run-up to the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development. It examines some of the political and […]

Journal article

Sustainable self-help development efforts in the Cameroon grassfields

01/08/1998

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

It is argued that community development can contribute to national development, in conjunction with other phenomena. Village-level development efforts depend on the dynamism of community groups. The populations of the Cameroon grass fields possess the creative capacity to adapt new techniques and knowledge to their local realities. The paper identifies the critical factors that influence […]

Journal article

Pre-departure briefing for aid workers

01/08/1998

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Development methods

Overview

This Research Round-Up provides a brief literature review of the use of pre-departure briefings (PDBs) for NGO staff delivering overseas aid programmes, especially from the point of view of Australian NGOs. The professionalism, productivity and effectiveness of aid workers can be enhanced using improved human resource management. The author reports the results of a questionnaire […]

Journal article

An endogenous empowerment strategy: a case-study of Nigerian women

01/02/1999

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

An endogenous empowerment strategy: a case-study of Nigerian women

Keywords

Overview

The paper presents a potentially effective empowerment strategy for women, using Nigeria as a case-study. The strategy evolves from an evaluation of recent empowerment strategies in Nigeria, empowerment concepts, and Karl’s (1995) scheme of empowerment. The author argues that the empowerment of women (understood as enhancing their capacity to influence and participate in making decisions […]

Journal article

Tools for project development within a public action framework

01/02/1999

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This paper focuses on the contradictory relationship between tools, always open to criticism as technocratic and mechanistic, and processes of development. It focuses on the tools often known as Logical Framework Approach (LFA) which are increasingly used as process tools by many different agencies, including those who espouse values of participation and empowerment. We assess […]

Journal article

Addressing urban poverty: increasing incomes, reducing costs, and securing representation

01/05/2000

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The paper considers the effectiveness of different strategies used in urban areas by development agencies to reduce poverty, including the relative merits of income generation and housing and neighbourhood improvement. Drawing on the findings of recent case studies, it suggests that the advantages of housing and neighbourhood improvements may have been underestimated, and that too […]

Journal article

Heroism and ambiguity: NGO advocacy in international policy

01/08/2000

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

NGO advocacy is sometimes portrayed in a heroic light, but efforts to influence World Bank-supported economic policies confront considerable ambiguity. Influence is difficult to demonstrate, but advocacy should be more rigorously assessed in the interest of transparency and effectiveness. Two (partial) solutions to this ambiguity are to focus on the process of NGO campaigns themselves; […]

Journal article

Scaling up adoption and impact of agroforestry technologies: experiences from western Kenya

01/08/2001

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Community-based organisations are increasingly considered a sustainable way to scale up the benefits of agricultural research and development from a few farmers in isolated pilot project areas to spread more widely across geographical and socio-economic gradients, and to do so quickly. This paper describes and highlights lessons learned from several research and development organisations in […]

Showing 308 matching results from Policy & Practice

Technical briefing

Household Water Treatment and Storage

03/06/2008

1 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Historically, interventions to provide people with safe water have focussed on improving water sources. However there is now a consensus among the WatSan community that even if the drinking water source is safe it can easily be re-contaminated during its transportation and storage in the household (Clasen and Bastable, 2003). A safe water intervention should […]

Briefing paper

Protection of Civilians in 2010: Facts, Figures, and the UN Security Council’s response

09/05/2011

3 documents

41 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

In 2010, millions of men, women, and children were killed, raped, displaced, injured, or recruited by force in armed conflicts throughout the world. Whether caught in the crossfire or deliberately targeted, civilians too often suffer disproportionately as a result of conflict. The primary obligation to protect civilians affected by conflict lies with national governments and […]

Journal article

Environmental reform in Brazil: advances and reversals

01/03/1992

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

It is now two years since the Government of President Fernando Collor de Mello took office in Brazil. This article assesses its effectiveness in implementing its environmental policies and resolving social conflicts in the Amazon in the run-up to the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development. It examines some of the political and […]

Journal article

Sustainable self-help development efforts in the Cameroon grassfields

01/08/1998

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

It is argued that community development can contribute to national development, in conjunction with other phenomena. Village-level development efforts depend on the dynamism of community groups. The populations of the Cameroon grass fields possess the creative capacity to adapt new techniques and knowledge to their local realities. The paper identifies the critical factors that influence […]

Journal article

Pre-departure briefing for aid workers

01/08/1998

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Development methods

Overview

This Research Round-Up provides a brief literature review of the use of pre-departure briefings (PDBs) for NGO staff delivering overseas aid programmes, especially from the point of view of Australian NGOs. The professionalism, productivity and effectiveness of aid workers can be enhanced using improved human resource management. The author reports the results of a questionnaire […]

Journal article

An endogenous empowerment strategy: a case-study of Nigerian women

01/02/1999

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

An endogenous empowerment strategy: a case-study of Nigerian women

Keywords

Overview

The paper presents a potentially effective empowerment strategy for women, using Nigeria as a case-study. The strategy evolves from an evaluation of recent empowerment strategies in Nigeria, empowerment concepts, and Karl’s (1995) scheme of empowerment. The author argues that the empowerment of women (understood as enhancing their capacity to influence and participate in making decisions […]

Journal article

Tools for project development within a public action framework

01/02/1999

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This paper focuses on the contradictory relationship between tools, always open to criticism as technocratic and mechanistic, and processes of development. It focuses on the tools often known as Logical Framework Approach (LFA) which are increasingly used as process tools by many different agencies, including those who espouse values of participation and empowerment. We assess […]

Journal article

Addressing urban poverty: increasing incomes, reducing costs, and securing representation

01/05/2000

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The paper considers the effectiveness of different strategies used in urban areas by development agencies to reduce poverty, including the relative merits of income generation and housing and neighbourhood improvement. Drawing on the findings of recent case studies, it suggests that the advantages of housing and neighbourhood improvements may have been underestimated, and that too […]

Journal article

Heroism and ambiguity: NGO advocacy in international policy

01/08/2000

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

NGO advocacy is sometimes portrayed in a heroic light, but efforts to influence World Bank-supported economic policies confront considerable ambiguity. Influence is difficult to demonstrate, but advocacy should be more rigorously assessed in the interest of transparency and effectiveness. Two (partial) solutions to this ambiguity are to focus on the process of NGO campaigns themselves; […]

Journal article

Scaling up adoption and impact of agroforestry technologies: experiences from western Kenya

01/08/2001

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Community-based organisations are increasingly considered a sustainable way to scale up the benefits of agricultural research and development from a few farmers in isolated pilot project areas to spread more widely across geographical and socio-economic gradients, and to do so quickly. This paper describes and highlights lessons learned from several research and development organisations in […]