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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 […]

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Children’s perceptions of poverty, participation, and local governance in Uganda

01/08/2004

15 pages long

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Children under the age of 18 years represent 62 percent of the poor in Uganda. To date, their perspective has not been incorporated in the many poverty analyses that have been conducted. The survey reported in this paper asked children between the ages of 10 and 14 years about their perceptions of poverty, and also […]

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Representing labour in India

01/02/2004

9 pages long

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Trade unions in India work mainly with workers in formal employment, particularly in the public sector. However, most people in India work in the informal economy, and their needs are attended mainly by voluntary agencies or NGOs. Economic globalisation and the policies associated with it are resulting in the increasing in formalisation of work; as […]

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Towards more effective peace building: a conversation with Roland Paris

01/11/2005

11 pages long

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Since the early 1990s, the international community has become increasingly involved in efforts to (re-)build states that have been torn by war and violent conflict. Today, the United Nations alone is engaged in more than ten political and peace-building missions around the world. Roland Paris’s most recent work, At War’s End: Building Peace after Civil […]

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Facilitated inter-firm collaboration in Ghana: The case of Danida’s private-sector development projects

01/06/2005

15 pages long

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Since the mid-1980s, aid agencies have endorsed the need to support the development of private enterprise in low-income countries as an instrument for overall economic development and poverty reduction. Facilitated collaboration between firms in industrialised and developing countries has become one of the most popular forms of assistance in this endeavour. Although such collaborations vary […]

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Does fair trade make a difference? The case of small coffee producers in Nicaragua

01/06/2005

16 pages long

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Fair trade represents an innovative approach to make the rules of global trade work for disadvantaged producers in the South and for sustainable development. But who are the real beneficiaries of fair trade? Has fair trade resulted in any discernible improvements in the lives of small coffee producers and their communities? This paper examines the […]

Showing 308 matching results from Policy & Practice

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 […]

Journal article

Children’s perceptions of poverty, participation, and local governance in Uganda

01/08/2004

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Children under the age of 18 years represent 62 percent of the poor in Uganda. To date, their perspective has not been incorporated in the many poverty analyses that have been conducted. The survey reported in this paper asked children between the ages of 10 and 14 years about their perceptions of poverty, and also […]

Journal article

Representing labour in India

01/02/2004

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Trade unions in India work mainly with workers in formal employment, particularly in the public sector. However, most people in India work in the informal economy, and their needs are attended mainly by voluntary agencies or NGOs. Economic globalisation and the policies associated with it are resulting in the increasing in formalisation of work; as […]

Journal article

Towards more effective peace building: a conversation with Roland Paris

01/11/2005

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Since the early 1990s, the international community has become increasingly involved in efforts to (re-)build states that have been torn by war and violent conflict. Today, the United Nations alone is engaged in more than ten political and peace-building missions around the world. Roland Paris’s most recent work, At War’s End: Building Peace after Civil […]

Journal article

Facilitated inter-firm collaboration in Ghana: The case of Danida’s private-sector development projects

01/06/2005

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Since the mid-1980s, aid agencies have endorsed the need to support the development of private enterprise in low-income countries as an instrument for overall economic development and poverty reduction. Facilitated collaboration between firms in industrialised and developing countries has become one of the most popular forms of assistance in this endeavour. Although such collaborations vary […]

Journal article

Does fair trade make a difference? The case of small coffee producers in Nicaragua

01/06/2005

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Fair trade represents an innovative approach to make the rules of global trade work for disadvantaged producers in the South and for sustainable development. But who are the real beneficiaries of fair trade? Has fair trade resulted in any discernible improvements in the lives of small coffee producers and their communities? This paper examines the […]

Showing 308 matching results from Policy & Practice

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 […]

Journal article

Children’s perceptions of poverty, participation, and local governance in Uganda

01/08/2004

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Children under the age of 18 years represent 62 percent of the poor in Uganda. To date, their perspective has not been incorporated in the many poverty analyses that have been conducted. The survey reported in this paper asked children between the ages of 10 and 14 years about their perceptions of poverty, and also […]

Journal article

Representing labour in India

01/02/2004

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Trade unions in India work mainly with workers in formal employment, particularly in the public sector. However, most people in India work in the informal economy, and their needs are attended mainly by voluntary agencies or NGOs. Economic globalisation and the policies associated with it are resulting in the increasing in formalisation of work; as […]

Journal article

Towards more effective peace building: a conversation with Roland Paris

01/11/2005

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Since the early 1990s, the international community has become increasingly involved in efforts to (re-)build states that have been torn by war and violent conflict. Today, the United Nations alone is engaged in more than ten political and peace-building missions around the world. Roland Paris’s most recent work, At War’s End: Building Peace after Civil […]

Journal article

Facilitated inter-firm collaboration in Ghana: The case of Danida’s private-sector development projects

01/06/2005

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Since the mid-1980s, aid agencies have endorsed the need to support the development of private enterprise in low-income countries as an instrument for overall economic development and poverty reduction. Facilitated collaboration between firms in industrialised and developing countries has become one of the most popular forms of assistance in this endeavour. Although such collaborations vary […]

Journal article

Does fair trade make a difference? The case of small coffee producers in Nicaragua

01/06/2005

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Fair trade represents an innovative approach to make the rules of global trade work for disadvantaged producers in the South and for sustainable development. But who are the real beneficiaries of fair trade? Has fair trade resulted in any discernible improvements in the lives of small coffee producers and their communities? This paper examines the […]