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Partnering for sustainability: Business-NGO alliances in the coffee industry

01/06/2005

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

The movement to promote coffee produced in a sustainable way is one of many efforts aimed at linking social responsibility and market capitalism. In the wake of a worldwide coffee crisis in which prices have fallen to levels that do not support small-scale production or provide living wages for plantation workers, non-profit certifying and labelling […]

Evaluation report

The Politics of Our Lives: The Raising Her Voice in Pakistan Experience

04/07/2013

2 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

How can we change the power dynamics that exclude women from decision making? How can the barriers that prevent women from exercising their rights as equals to lead, to propose and to call to account be overcome? Over the past five years, the Raising Her Voice (RHV) programme set out to find practical answers to […]

Briefing note

Local Humanitarian Leadership in Conflict Settings: Insights from civil society actors

01/07/2026

2 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

Civil society organisations play critical roles in implementing and leading humanitarian responses, yet persistent barriers continue to limit their ability to shape inclusive responses on their own terms – particularly in restrictive, conflict-affected contexts. This learning brief examines how civil society organisations operate in conflict settings, and how international actors can more effectively support local […]

Journal article

Institutionalising the concept of environmental planning and management (EPM): successes and challenges in Dar es Salaam

01/05/2001

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

With reference to Dar es Salaam, this paper examines experience to date with the concept of urban environmental planning and management (EPM), an approach promoted by the UN agencies concerned with human settlements (UNCHS) and environment (UNEP) to enhance the capacity of local governments to manage rapid urban growth and development in partnership with key […]

Journal article

Transnational peace building: bringing salt and light to Colombia and the USA

01/08/2009

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

In 2003, Lutheran World Relief (LWR), an international relief and development NGO, began a peace-building initiative in Colombia. It facilitated the formation of a partnership between peace-sanctuary churches in Colombia and six communities of faith in the US Midwest, co-ordinated by LWR staff. This partnership, called ‘Sal y Luz’ (Salt and Light), has the goal […]

Journal article

Thembakazi ‘Roundy’ Peter – South African COVID Hero

31/08/2022

7 pages long

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Thembakazi ‘Roundy’ Peter – South African COVID Hero

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Overview

This article presents Oxfam South Africa’s work in the Alfred Nzo District Municipality in Eastern Cape, South Africa, and the partnership with Themakazi ‘Roundy’ Peter. Despite being a prime region suited for large-scale agriculture, the Alfred Nzo district is one of the poorest in the country. Oxfam South Africa conducted a study to understand the […]

Journal article

Are trade agreements with the EU beneficial to women in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific?

01/07/2004

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Are trade agreements with the EU beneficial to women in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific?

Keywords

Overview

Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), currently being negotiated between the European Union and 77 African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries, are due to enter into force in January 2008. These talks come under the umbrella of the 2000 Cotonou Partnership Agreement, which sets out a clear and specific commitment to gender equality. Despite this, gender issues […]

Journal article

Action research exploring information communication technologies (ICT) and child protection in Thailand

01/06/2012

13 pages long

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Overview

Traditional approaches to protecting children are insufficient to meet the complex issues they now face, and inter-sectoral, child-centred strategies are needed. Addressing this, the International Institute for Child Rights and Development (IICRD) developed the Circle of Rights (COR), a participatory action research approach to involve children in ‘bottom-up’ protection work. This paper describes COR in […]

Journal article

‘But you can’t compare Malawi and Ireland!’ – shifting boundaries in a globalised world

01/05/2010

12 pages long

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Overview

Although global influences – in the form of international finance coupled with discourses of partnership, participation, good governance, and democracy – exercise an increasing influence on national and local governance arrangements worldwide, comparative studies across the traditional South/North divide remain extremely rare. Drawing on findings from a comparative study of Malawi’s PRSP and Ireland’s national […]

Journal article

An international NGO representative in Colombia: reflections from practice

01/08/2010

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Development methods

Overview

Certain contexts render particularly challenging the disjunctures and discontinuities between international NGO (INGO) headquarters and in-country operations, as this Christian Aid case demonstrates. Torn loyalties result when seeking to discern how best to work with partners in a human-rights crisis in a middle-income country. Navigating these challenges requires a critical interrogation and radical practice of […]

Showing 325 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Partnering for sustainability: Business-NGO alliances in the coffee industry

01/06/2005

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The movement to promote coffee produced in a sustainable way is one of many efforts aimed at linking social responsibility and market capitalism. In the wake of a worldwide coffee crisis in which prices have fallen to levels that do not support small-scale production or provide living wages for plantation workers, non-profit certifying and labelling […]

Evaluation report

The Politics of Our Lives: The Raising Her Voice in Pakistan Experience

04/07/2013

2 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

How can we change the power dynamics that exclude women from decision making? How can the barriers that prevent women from exercising their rights as equals to lead, to propose and to call to account be overcome? Over the past five years, the Raising Her Voice (RHV) programme set out to find practical answers to […]

Briefing note

Local Humanitarian Leadership in Conflict Settings: Insights from civil society actors

01/07/2026

2 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

Civil society organisations play critical roles in implementing and leading humanitarian responses, yet persistent barriers continue to limit their ability to shape inclusive responses on their own terms – particularly in restrictive, conflict-affected contexts. This learning brief examines how civil society organisations operate in conflict settings, and how international actors can more effectively support local […]

Journal article

Institutionalising the concept of environmental planning and management (EPM): successes and challenges in Dar es Salaam

01/05/2001

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

With reference to Dar es Salaam, this paper examines experience to date with the concept of urban environmental planning and management (EPM), an approach promoted by the UN agencies concerned with human settlements (UNCHS) and environment (UNEP) to enhance the capacity of local governments to manage rapid urban growth and development in partnership with key […]

Journal article

Transnational peace building: bringing salt and light to Colombia and the USA

01/08/2009

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

In 2003, Lutheran World Relief (LWR), an international relief and development NGO, began a peace-building initiative in Colombia. It facilitated the formation of a partnership between peace-sanctuary churches in Colombia and six communities of faith in the US Midwest, co-ordinated by LWR staff. This partnership, called ‘Sal y Luz’ (Salt and Light), has the goal […]

Journal article

Thembakazi ‘Roundy’ Peter – South African COVID Hero

31/08/2022

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Thembakazi ‘Roundy’ Peter – South African COVID Hero

Keywords

Overview

This article presents Oxfam South Africa’s work in the Alfred Nzo District Municipality in Eastern Cape, South Africa, and the partnership with Themakazi ‘Roundy’ Peter. Despite being a prime region suited for large-scale agriculture, the Alfred Nzo district is one of the poorest in the country. Oxfam South Africa conducted a study to understand the […]

Journal article

Are trade agreements with the EU beneficial to women in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific?

01/07/2004

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Are trade agreements with the EU beneficial to women in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific?

Keywords

Overview

Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), currently being negotiated between the European Union and 77 African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries, are due to enter into force in January 2008. These talks come under the umbrella of the 2000 Cotonou Partnership Agreement, which sets out a clear and specific commitment to gender equality. Despite this, gender issues […]

Journal article

Action research exploring information communication technologies (ICT) and child protection in Thailand

01/06/2012

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Traditional approaches to protecting children are insufficient to meet the complex issues they now face, and inter-sectoral, child-centred strategies are needed. Addressing this, the International Institute for Child Rights and Development (IICRD) developed the Circle of Rights (COR), a participatory action research approach to involve children in ‘bottom-up’ protection work. This paper describes COR in […]

Journal article

‘But you can’t compare Malawi and Ireland!’ – shifting boundaries in a globalised world

01/05/2010

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Although global influences – in the form of international finance coupled with discourses of partnership, participation, good governance, and democracy – exercise an increasing influence on national and local governance arrangements worldwide, comparative studies across the traditional South/North divide remain extremely rare. Drawing on findings from a comparative study of Malawi’s PRSP and Ireland’s national […]

Journal article

An international NGO representative in Colombia: reflections from practice

01/08/2010

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Development methods

Overview

Certain contexts render particularly challenging the disjunctures and discontinuities between international NGO (INGO) headquarters and in-country operations, as this Christian Aid case demonstrates. Torn loyalties result when seeking to discern how best to work with partners in a human-rights crisis in a middle-income country. Navigating these challenges requires a critical interrogation and radical practice of […]

Showing 325 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Partnering for sustainability: Business-NGO alliances in the coffee industry

01/06/2005

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The movement to promote coffee produced in a sustainable way is one of many efforts aimed at linking social responsibility and market capitalism. In the wake of a worldwide coffee crisis in which prices have fallen to levels that do not support small-scale production or provide living wages for plantation workers, non-profit certifying and labelling […]

Evaluation report

The Politics of Our Lives: The Raising Her Voice in Pakistan Experience

04/07/2013

2 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

How can we change the power dynamics that exclude women from decision making? How can the barriers that prevent women from exercising their rights as equals to lead, to propose and to call to account be overcome? Over the past five years, the Raising Her Voice (RHV) programme set out to find practical answers to […]

Briefing note

Local Humanitarian Leadership in Conflict Settings: Insights from civil society actors

01/07/2026

2 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

Civil society organisations play critical roles in implementing and leading humanitarian responses, yet persistent barriers continue to limit their ability to shape inclusive responses on their own terms – particularly in restrictive, conflict-affected contexts. This learning brief examines how civil society organisations operate in conflict settings, and how international actors can more effectively support local […]

Journal article

Institutionalising the concept of environmental planning and management (EPM): successes and challenges in Dar es Salaam

01/05/2001

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

With reference to Dar es Salaam, this paper examines experience to date with the concept of urban environmental planning and management (EPM), an approach promoted by the UN agencies concerned with human settlements (UNCHS) and environment (UNEP) to enhance the capacity of local governments to manage rapid urban growth and development in partnership with key […]

Journal article

Transnational peace building: bringing salt and light to Colombia and the USA

01/08/2009

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

In 2003, Lutheran World Relief (LWR), an international relief and development NGO, began a peace-building initiative in Colombia. It facilitated the formation of a partnership between peace-sanctuary churches in Colombia and six communities of faith in the US Midwest, co-ordinated by LWR staff. This partnership, called ‘Sal y Luz’ (Salt and Light), has the goal […]

Journal article

Thembakazi ‘Roundy’ Peter – South African COVID Hero

31/08/2022

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Thembakazi ‘Roundy’ Peter – South African COVID Hero

Keywords

Overview

This article presents Oxfam South Africa’s work in the Alfred Nzo District Municipality in Eastern Cape, South Africa, and the partnership with Themakazi ‘Roundy’ Peter. Despite being a prime region suited for large-scale agriculture, the Alfred Nzo district is one of the poorest in the country. Oxfam South Africa conducted a study to understand the […]

Journal article

Are trade agreements with the EU beneficial to women in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific?

01/07/2004

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Are trade agreements with the EU beneficial to women in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific?

Keywords

Overview

Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), currently being negotiated between the European Union and 77 African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries, are due to enter into force in January 2008. These talks come under the umbrella of the 2000 Cotonou Partnership Agreement, which sets out a clear and specific commitment to gender equality. Despite this, gender issues […]

Journal article

Action research exploring information communication technologies (ICT) and child protection in Thailand

01/06/2012

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Traditional approaches to protecting children are insufficient to meet the complex issues they now face, and inter-sectoral, child-centred strategies are needed. Addressing this, the International Institute for Child Rights and Development (IICRD) developed the Circle of Rights (COR), a participatory action research approach to involve children in ‘bottom-up’ protection work. This paper describes COR in […]

Journal article

‘But you can’t compare Malawi and Ireland!’ – shifting boundaries in a globalised world

01/05/2010

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Although global influences – in the form of international finance coupled with discourses of partnership, participation, good governance, and democracy – exercise an increasing influence on national and local governance arrangements worldwide, comparative studies across the traditional South/North divide remain extremely rare. Drawing on findings from a comparative study of Malawi’s PRSP and Ireland’s national […]

Journal article

An international NGO representative in Colombia: reflections from practice

01/08/2010

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Development methods

Overview

Certain contexts render particularly challenging the disjunctures and discontinuities between international NGO (INGO) headquarters and in-country operations, as this Christian Aid case demonstrates. Torn loyalties result when seeking to discern how best to work with partners in a human-rights crisis in a middle-income country. Navigating these challenges requires a critical interrogation and radical practice of […]