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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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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 […]

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Tools for project development within a public action framework

01/02/1999

10 pages long

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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 […]

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

01/05/2000

12 pages long

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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 […]

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Heroism and ambiguity: NGO advocacy in international policy

01/08/2000

13 pages long

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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; […]

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

01/08/2001

15 pages long

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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 […]

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Scaling up the benefits of agroforestry research: lessons learned and research challenges

01/08/2001

11 pages long

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Case studies demonstrate the breadth and richness in approaches to scaling up and lessons learned from them. A key lesson is that scaling up agroforestry innovations is far more complex than simply transferring information and planting material; it often entails building institutional capacity in the community for promoting and sustaining the innovation and adoption process. […]

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A trail-finding project: lessons in project design

01/02/2002

4 pages long

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The paper argues the case for innovative trail-setting projects and reviews the experience of the North Bengal Terai Development Project (India). It summarises several of its lessons: creating the conditions for ‘in-project’ cost effectiveness, managing goodwill, promoting innovation through the full cycle of scaling up and consolidation, linking ongoing government programmes and private initiatives with […]

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Whom do international donors support in the name of civil society?

01/02/2002

13 pages long

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International funding of civil society organisations within the framework of support for democratisation processes has increased significantly in recent years. Yet this raises a set of questions quite apart from the effectiveness of the activities of the recipient organisations. Who are these groups? Whom do they represent? What effect does international funding have on their […]

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Implementing and evaluating microcredit in Bangladesh

01/05/2002

11 pages long

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Implementing and evaluating microcredit in Bangladesh

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Microcredit has been introduced to rural communities in Bangladesh as a means of economic and social development, but there are increasing doubts about its effectiveness and suggestions that it causes domestic abuse. A review of various studies indicates that microcredit can result in social disruption by exacerbating gender conflict. It is suggested that micro-level study […]

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Knowledge to action: evaluation for learning in a multi-organisational global partnership

01/08/2002

9 pages long

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Many organisations do not learn. There are many reasons for this, and a lack of donor support tends to be cited as one of the greatest. But this is not the primary reason for a lack of learning. We fail to learn because we are unable to see the importance of doing so. We become […]

Showing 313 matching results from Policy & Practice

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 […]

Journal article

Scaling up the benefits of agroforestry research: lessons learned and research challenges

01/08/2001

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Case studies demonstrate the breadth and richness in approaches to scaling up and lessons learned from them. A key lesson is that scaling up agroforestry innovations is far more complex than simply transferring information and planting material; it often entails building institutional capacity in the community for promoting and sustaining the innovation and adoption process. […]

Journal article

A trail-finding project: lessons in project design

01/02/2002

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The paper argues the case for innovative trail-setting projects and reviews the experience of the North Bengal Terai Development Project (India). It summarises several of its lessons: creating the conditions for ‘in-project’ cost effectiveness, managing goodwill, promoting innovation through the full cycle of scaling up and consolidation, linking ongoing government programmes and private initiatives with […]

Journal article

Whom do international donors support in the name of civil society?

01/02/2002

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

International funding of civil society organisations within the framework of support for democratisation processes has increased significantly in recent years. Yet this raises a set of questions quite apart from the effectiveness of the activities of the recipient organisations. Who are these groups? Whom do they represent? What effect does international funding have on their […]

Journal article

Implementing and evaluating microcredit in Bangladesh

01/05/2002

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Implementing and evaluating microcredit in Bangladesh

Keywords

Overview

Microcredit has been introduced to rural communities in Bangladesh as a means of economic and social development, but there are increasing doubts about its effectiveness and suggestions that it causes domestic abuse. A review of various studies indicates that microcredit can result in social disruption by exacerbating gender conflict. It is suggested that micro-level study […]

Journal article

Knowledge to action: evaluation for learning in a multi-organisational global partnership

01/08/2002

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Many organisations do not learn. There are many reasons for this, and a lack of donor support tends to be cited as one of the greatest. But this is not the primary reason for a lack of learning. We fail to learn because we are unable to see the importance of doing so. We become […]

Showing 313 matching results from Policy & Practice

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 […]

Journal article

Scaling up the benefits of agroforestry research: lessons learned and research challenges

01/08/2001

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Case studies demonstrate the breadth and richness in approaches to scaling up and lessons learned from them. A key lesson is that scaling up agroforestry innovations is far more complex than simply transferring information and planting material; it often entails building institutional capacity in the community for promoting and sustaining the innovation and adoption process. […]

Journal article

A trail-finding project: lessons in project design

01/02/2002

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The paper argues the case for innovative trail-setting projects and reviews the experience of the North Bengal Terai Development Project (India). It summarises several of its lessons: creating the conditions for ‘in-project’ cost effectiveness, managing goodwill, promoting innovation through the full cycle of scaling up and consolidation, linking ongoing government programmes and private initiatives with […]

Journal article

Whom do international donors support in the name of civil society?

01/02/2002

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

International funding of civil society organisations within the framework of support for democratisation processes has increased significantly in recent years. Yet this raises a set of questions quite apart from the effectiveness of the activities of the recipient organisations. Who are these groups? Whom do they represent? What effect does international funding have on their […]

Journal article

Implementing and evaluating microcredit in Bangladesh

01/05/2002

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Implementing and evaluating microcredit in Bangladesh

Keywords

Overview

Microcredit has been introduced to rural communities in Bangladesh as a means of economic and social development, but there are increasing doubts about its effectiveness and suggestions that it causes domestic abuse. A review of various studies indicates that microcredit can result in social disruption by exacerbating gender conflict. It is suggested that micro-level study […]

Journal article

Knowledge to action: evaluation for learning in a multi-organisational global partnership

01/08/2002

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Many organisations do not learn. There are many reasons for this, and a lack of donor support tends to be cited as one of the greatest. But this is not the primary reason for a lack of learning. We fail to learn because we are unable to see the importance of doing so. We become […]