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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 […]

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NGOs in conflict prevention: experiences from the water sector in Ethiopia

01/04/2006

8 pages long

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While development cooperation can cause or exacerbate conflicts, withholding aid is not the solution. The issue is how to provide aid in a manner that prevents conflict, so as to achieve sustainable peace. This Practical Note examines how NGOs have prevented and managed conflicts arising from water projects in Ethiopia. The legal framework and institutional […]

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Evaluating gender mainstreaming in development projects

01/04/2006

6 pages long

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Evaluating gender mainstreaming in development projects

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Gender mainstreaming was established in the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action as a major strategy for the promotion of gender equality. As a development strategy, gender mainstreaming requires attention to gender perspectives, making them visible and showing the links between gender equality and the achievement of development goals. To evaluate gender mainstreaming in development projects […]

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Corporate wealth or public health? WTO/TRIPS flexibilities and access to HIV/AIDS antiretroviral drugs by developing countries

01/04/2007

12 pages long

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Between 1994 and 2003, the TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) Agreement of the WTO was refined to allow for flexibilities in the use of compulsory licences to import and export ‘generic’ varieties of pharmaceutical products, including ARV drugs for the treatment of HIV/AIDS. After summarising this process, and assessing its implications in practice […]

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Words count: taking a count of the changing language of British aid

01/08/2007

12 pages long

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A word analysis of six UK government White Paper policy statements on aid (selected between 1960 and 2006) compares the top 20 words and key word pairs used in each document. Characteristic sentences are composed of the top 20s to represent the spirit of each paper. Results illuminate changes in the content of White Papers […]

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Peacebuilding does not build peace

01/08/2007

6 pages long

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The concept of peacebuilding is a buzzword of the development policy and practice mainstream. The recent introduction of managerial tools and the focus on measuring the ‘effectiveness’ of peacebuilding have marginalised and depoliticised critical questions about the causes of violent conflict, and have replaced them with comforting notions for donors that peace can be built […]

Showing 313 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

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

01/08/2004

15 pages long

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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 […]

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Representing labour in India

01/02/2004

9 pages long

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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 […]

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Towards more effective peace building: a conversation with Roland Paris

01/11/2005

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

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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 […]

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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 […]

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NGOs in conflict prevention: experiences from the water sector in Ethiopia

01/04/2006

8 pages long

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Overview

While development cooperation can cause or exacerbate conflicts, withholding aid is not the solution. The issue is how to provide aid in a manner that prevents conflict, so as to achieve sustainable peace. This Practical Note examines how NGOs have prevented and managed conflicts arising from water projects in Ethiopia. The legal framework and institutional […]

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Evaluating gender mainstreaming in development projects

01/04/2006

6 pages long

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Evaluating gender mainstreaming in development projects

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Overview

Gender mainstreaming was established in the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action as a major strategy for the promotion of gender equality. As a development strategy, gender mainstreaming requires attention to gender perspectives, making them visible and showing the links between gender equality and the achievement of development goals. To evaluate gender mainstreaming in development projects […]

Journal article

Corporate wealth or public health? WTO/TRIPS flexibilities and access to HIV/AIDS antiretroviral drugs by developing countries

01/04/2007

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Between 1994 and 2003, the TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) Agreement of the WTO was refined to allow for flexibilities in the use of compulsory licences to import and export ‘generic’ varieties of pharmaceutical products, including ARV drugs for the treatment of HIV/AIDS. After summarising this process, and assessing its implications in practice […]

Journal article

Words count: taking a count of the changing language of British aid

01/08/2007

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

A word analysis of six UK government White Paper policy statements on aid (selected between 1960 and 2006) compares the top 20 words and key word pairs used in each document. Characteristic sentences are composed of the top 20s to represent the spirit of each paper. Results illuminate changes in the content of White Papers […]

Journal article

Peacebuilding does not build peace

01/08/2007

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The concept of peacebuilding is a buzzword of the development policy and practice mainstream. The recent introduction of managerial tools and the focus on measuring the ‘effectiveness’ of peacebuilding have marginalised and depoliticised critical questions about the causes of violent conflict, and have replaced them with comforting notions for donors that peace can be built […]

Showing 313 matching results from Policy & Practice

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 […]

Journal article

NGOs in conflict prevention: experiences from the water sector in Ethiopia

01/04/2006

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

While development cooperation can cause or exacerbate conflicts, withholding aid is not the solution. The issue is how to provide aid in a manner that prevents conflict, so as to achieve sustainable peace. This Practical Note examines how NGOs have prevented and managed conflicts arising from water projects in Ethiopia. The legal framework and institutional […]

Journal article

Evaluating gender mainstreaming in development projects

01/04/2006

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Evaluating gender mainstreaming in development projects

Keywords

Overview

Gender mainstreaming was established in the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action as a major strategy for the promotion of gender equality. As a development strategy, gender mainstreaming requires attention to gender perspectives, making them visible and showing the links between gender equality and the achievement of development goals. To evaluate gender mainstreaming in development projects […]

Journal article

Corporate wealth or public health? WTO/TRIPS flexibilities and access to HIV/AIDS antiretroviral drugs by developing countries

01/04/2007

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Between 1994 and 2003, the TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) Agreement of the WTO was refined to allow for flexibilities in the use of compulsory licences to import and export ‘generic’ varieties of pharmaceutical products, including ARV drugs for the treatment of HIV/AIDS. After summarising this process, and assessing its implications in practice […]

Journal article

Words count: taking a count of the changing language of British aid

01/08/2007

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

A word analysis of six UK government White Paper policy statements on aid (selected between 1960 and 2006) compares the top 20 words and key word pairs used in each document. Characteristic sentences are composed of the top 20s to represent the spirit of each paper. Results illuminate changes in the content of White Papers […]

Journal article

Peacebuilding does not build peace

01/08/2007

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The concept of peacebuilding is a buzzword of the development policy and practice mainstream. The recent introduction of managerial tools and the focus on measuring the ‘effectiveness’ of peacebuilding have marginalised and depoliticised critical questions about the causes of violent conflict, and have replaced them with comforting notions for donors that peace can be built […]