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Refugees and migration: Rewriting the definitions

01/05/1993

5 pages long

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The author reports on a conference held in London, England in November 1992 as part of Global Partnership ’92 which considered the alarming increase in forced migration. Participants argued that immigration controls do not tackle the causes of migration, and international law is inadequate, failing to satisfactorily distinguish between immigration and asylum issues. The particular […]

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The nature and design of development organisations

01/08/1997

18 pages long

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Viewpoint. With reference to ‘The nature and design of development organisations’, ‘Critical reflections on rapid and participatory rural appraisal’, ‘Fleeting talk: one question in India’, ‘Development jargon as order words’ and ‘Partnership: a new name in development Cupertino’. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

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Community-based animal health care in Zambia

01/05/1999

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The author gives an account of a partnership between a UK-based NGO and the Zambian government, designed to encourage `smallholder farmers to form `cattle clubs’ [to] operate and manage community cattle-spraying points on a full cost-recovery basis’. The project’s success has been tempered by changes in the external environment and the perceptions of the farmers, […]

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Community development in the Third World – walking a fine line

01/08/1999

19 pages long

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Viewpoints based on ‘Community development in the Third World – walking a fine line’, ‘ICVA’s near-death experience: temptation and redemption in the `Humanitarian International” and ‘Mission impossible? Creating partnerships among NGOs, governments, and donors’. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

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Routes of funding, roots of trust? Northern NGOs, Southern NGOs, donors, and the rise of direct funding

01/02/1999

13 pages long

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This paper, based on a review of SIDA’s funding of NGOs in Bangladesh, explores the changing relationships between bilateral donors, Northern NGOs (NNGOs), and Southern NGOs (SNGOs). It compares direct and indirect funding routes between donors and SNGOs. Most SIDA funding of SNGOs was previously undertaken through Swedish NGOs. As SNGO competence and capacity has […]

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Whose terms? Observations on ‘development management’ in an English city

01/02/1999

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Using the example of a project in Sheffield intended to promote user-involvement and participation in planning healthcare services, the author criticises the failure of the project to actually provide any forum for user-participation. The structures used to set up these partnerships are often too prescriptive, he argues, setting out a framework in which consultation may […]

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Scaling up the use of fodder shrubs in central Kenya

01/08/2001

8 pages long

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Fodder shrubs provide great potential for increasing the income of smallholder dairy farmers. Following successful on-station and on-farm trials and considerable farmer-to-farmer dissemination in Embu District, Kenya, a project was initiated to introduce fodder shrubs to farmers across seven districts. Over a two-year period, a dissemination facilitator working through field-based partners assisted 150 farmer groups […]

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Facilitating the wider use of agroforestry for development in southern Africa

01/08/2001

15 pages long

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Southern Africa is experiencing severe degradation of the natural resource base caused by population growth and poverty. Agroforestry technologies that are now available have great potential to improve the livelihoods of many households. The paper describes some of the outcomes of technology development and how this has evolved into a more client-driven process. Regional development […]

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A chocolate-coated case for alternative international business models

01/08/2002

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Large companies have accelerated their control of the basic commodities markets in the last decade. The author describes what this means for smallholder farmers in the developing world who depend on these markets for some cash income each year. The consequences of the growing power of distributors (the grocery or supermarket chains) and dominant brand-owners […]

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Paradoxes of institutionalisation: the depoliticisation of Bangladeshi NGOs

01/02/2003

22 pages long

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Through an analysis of how Bangladeshi NGOs have become institutionalised, the author examines patterns of bureaucratisation and professionalisation to argue that NGOs are part of a process of incorporation that mediates opposition to gender and other structural inequalities. Two important tendencies–the growing partnership between NGOs, the state, and donor agencies, and the discursive shift from […]

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Journal article

Refugees and migration: Rewriting the definitions

01/05/1993

5 pages long

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Overview

The author reports on a conference held in London, England in November 1992 as part of Global Partnership ’92 which considered the alarming increase in forced migration. Participants argued that immigration controls do not tackle the causes of migration, and international law is inadequate, failing to satisfactorily distinguish between immigration and asylum issues. The particular […]

Journal article

The nature and design of development organisations

01/08/1997

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Viewpoint. With reference to ‘The nature and design of development organisations’, ‘Critical reflections on rapid and participatory rural appraisal’, ‘Fleeting talk: one question in India’, ‘Development jargon as order words’ and ‘Partnership: a new name in development Cupertino’. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

Journal article

Community-based animal health care in Zambia

01/05/1999

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

The author gives an account of a partnership between a UK-based NGO and the Zambian government, designed to encourage `smallholder farmers to form `cattle clubs’ [to] operate and manage community cattle-spraying points on a full cost-recovery basis’. The project’s success has been tempered by changes in the external environment and the perceptions of the farmers, […]

Journal article

Community development in the Third World – walking a fine line

01/08/1999

19 pages long

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Overview

Viewpoints based on ‘Community development in the Third World – walking a fine line’, ‘ICVA’s near-death experience: temptation and redemption in the `Humanitarian International” and ‘Mission impossible? Creating partnerships among NGOs, governments, and donors’. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

Journal article

Routes of funding, roots of trust? Northern NGOs, Southern NGOs, donors, and the rise of direct funding

01/02/1999

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

This paper, based on a review of SIDA’s funding of NGOs in Bangladesh, explores the changing relationships between bilateral donors, Northern NGOs (NNGOs), and Southern NGOs (SNGOs). It compares direct and indirect funding routes between donors and SNGOs. Most SIDA funding of SNGOs was previously undertaken through Swedish NGOs. As SNGO competence and capacity has […]

Journal article

Whose terms? Observations on ‘development management’ in an English city

01/02/1999

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Using the example of a project in Sheffield intended to promote user-involvement and participation in planning healthcare services, the author criticises the failure of the project to actually provide any forum for user-participation. The structures used to set up these partnerships are often too prescriptive, he argues, setting out a framework in which consultation may […]

Journal article

Scaling up the use of fodder shrubs in central Kenya

01/08/2001

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Fodder shrubs provide great potential for increasing the income of smallholder dairy farmers. Following successful on-station and on-farm trials and considerable farmer-to-farmer dissemination in Embu District, Kenya, a project was initiated to introduce fodder shrubs to farmers across seven districts. Over a two-year period, a dissemination facilitator working through field-based partners assisted 150 farmer groups […]

Journal article

Facilitating the wider use of agroforestry for development in southern Africa

01/08/2001

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Southern Africa is experiencing severe degradation of the natural resource base caused by population growth and poverty. Agroforestry technologies that are now available have great potential to improve the livelihoods of many households. The paper describes some of the outcomes of technology development and how this has evolved into a more client-driven process. Regional development […]

Journal article

A chocolate-coated case for alternative international business models

01/08/2002

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Large companies have accelerated their control of the basic commodities markets in the last decade. The author describes what this means for smallholder farmers in the developing world who depend on these markets for some cash income each year. The consequences of the growing power of distributors (the grocery or supermarket chains) and dominant brand-owners […]

Journal article

Paradoxes of institutionalisation: the depoliticisation of Bangladeshi NGOs

01/02/2003

22 pages long

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Keywords

Overview

Through an analysis of how Bangladeshi NGOs have become institutionalised, the author examines patterns of bureaucratisation and professionalisation to argue that NGOs are part of a process of incorporation that mediates opposition to gender and other structural inequalities. Two important tendencies–the growing partnership between NGOs, the state, and donor agencies, and the discursive shift from […]

Showing 313 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Refugees and migration: Rewriting the definitions

01/05/1993

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The author reports on a conference held in London, England in November 1992 as part of Global Partnership ’92 which considered the alarming increase in forced migration. Participants argued that immigration controls do not tackle the causes of migration, and international law is inadequate, failing to satisfactorily distinguish between immigration and asylum issues. The particular […]

Journal article

The nature and design of development organisations

01/08/1997

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Viewpoint. With reference to ‘The nature and design of development organisations’, ‘Critical reflections on rapid and participatory rural appraisal’, ‘Fleeting talk: one question in India’, ‘Development jargon as order words’ and ‘Partnership: a new name in development Cupertino’. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

Journal article

Community-based animal health care in Zambia

01/05/1999

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The author gives an account of a partnership between a UK-based NGO and the Zambian government, designed to encourage `smallholder farmers to form `cattle clubs’ [to] operate and manage community cattle-spraying points on a full cost-recovery basis’. The project’s success has been tempered by changes in the external environment and the perceptions of the farmers, […]

Journal article

Community development in the Third World – walking a fine line

01/08/1999

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Viewpoints based on ‘Community development in the Third World – walking a fine line’, ‘ICVA’s near-death experience: temptation and redemption in the `Humanitarian International” and ‘Mission impossible? Creating partnerships among NGOs, governments, and donors’. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

Journal article

Routes of funding, roots of trust? Northern NGOs, Southern NGOs, donors, and the rise of direct funding

01/02/1999

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This paper, based on a review of SIDA’s funding of NGOs in Bangladesh, explores the changing relationships between bilateral donors, Northern NGOs (NNGOs), and Southern NGOs (SNGOs). It compares direct and indirect funding routes between donors and SNGOs. Most SIDA funding of SNGOs was previously undertaken through Swedish NGOs. As SNGO competence and capacity has […]

Journal article

Whose terms? Observations on ‘development management’ in an English city

01/02/1999

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Using the example of a project in Sheffield intended to promote user-involvement and participation in planning healthcare services, the author criticises the failure of the project to actually provide any forum for user-participation. The structures used to set up these partnerships are often too prescriptive, he argues, setting out a framework in which consultation may […]

Journal article

Scaling up the use of fodder shrubs in central Kenya

01/08/2001

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Fodder shrubs provide great potential for increasing the income of smallholder dairy farmers. Following successful on-station and on-farm trials and considerable farmer-to-farmer dissemination in Embu District, Kenya, a project was initiated to introduce fodder shrubs to farmers across seven districts. Over a two-year period, a dissemination facilitator working through field-based partners assisted 150 farmer groups […]

Journal article

Facilitating the wider use of agroforestry for development in southern Africa

01/08/2001

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Southern Africa is experiencing severe degradation of the natural resource base caused by population growth and poverty. Agroforestry technologies that are now available have great potential to improve the livelihoods of many households. The paper describes some of the outcomes of technology development and how this has evolved into a more client-driven process. Regional development […]

Journal article

A chocolate-coated case for alternative international business models

01/08/2002

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Large companies have accelerated their control of the basic commodities markets in the last decade. The author describes what this means for smallholder farmers in the developing world who depend on these markets for some cash income each year. The consequences of the growing power of distributors (the grocery or supermarket chains) and dominant brand-owners […]

Journal article

Paradoxes of institutionalisation: the depoliticisation of Bangladeshi NGOs

01/02/2003

22 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Through an analysis of how Bangladeshi NGOs have become institutionalised, the author examines patterns of bureaucratisation and professionalisation to argue that NGOs are part of a process of incorporation that mediates opposition to gender and other structural inequalities. Two important tendencies–the growing partnership between NGOs, the state, and donor agencies, and the discursive shift from […]