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Development? Freedom? Whose development and freedom?

01/04/2006

8 pages long

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This paper critiques the ‘freedom-centred’ view of development by arguing that while development must be about expanding peoples’ freedoms, the dynamics of power between ‘developers’ and ‘developees’ must not be ignored. There is little analysis of the implications of multi-party political system (seemingly equated with democracy) in facilitating development and freedom. Using Malawi as an […]

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How can PhD research contribute to the global health research agenda?

01/11/2006

6 pages long

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We suggest that PhD and post-doctoral researchers are a strong, untapped resource with the potential to make a real contribution to global health research (GHR). However, we raise some ethical, institutional, and funding issues that either discourage new researchers from entering the field or diminish their capacity to contribute. We offer a number of recommendations […]

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Everyday practices of humanitarian aid: tsunami response in Sri Lanka

01/06/2006

11 pages long

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This article underlines the importance of grounding the analysis of humanitarian aid in an understanding of everyday practice. It presents ethnographic vignettes illustrating three aspects of aid response in Sri Lanka following the tsunami disaster in 2004. The first deals with the nature of humanitarian actors, the second explores how different kinds of politics intertwine, […]

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Capacity building: who builds whose capacity?

01/08/2007

9 pages long

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This article focuses on the role that development NGOs play in capacity building, arguing that many conventional NGO practices are ultimately about retaining power, rather than empowering their partners. This leads to tunnel vision and to upward rather than downward or horizontal accountability, based on the assumption that the transfer of resources is a one-way […]

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New forms of environmental governance? A case study of Costa Rican environmental NGOs

01/06/2008

11 pages long

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Increasingly development theorists and practitioners view NGOs as catalysts of sustainable development. NGOs have been regarded as champions of democratisation and promoters of new ways of engaging in politics, with considerable influence on the development of civil society and new partnerships in environmental and social advocacy. This article analyses the ways in which Costa Rican […]

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An innovative approach to building stronger coalitions: the Net-Map Toolbox

01/01/2009

2 pages long

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A common challenge faces development organisations, from the highest policy-making circles to local, grassroots organisations: how to work with other groups to build stronger partnerships and achieve consensus on goals? This article describes the Net-Map Toolbox, a new tool which builds and expands upon existing social-networking approaches. The article highlights the experience of using the […]

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Health and hygiene behaviour change: bottom-up meets top-down in Tibet

01/05/2009

6 pages long

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The Tibet Poverty Alleviation Fund (TPAF) has been working in the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China since 1998 to increase the income and assets of rural Tibetans. From the beginning, TPAF recognised that high morbidity and mortality were a constraint on efforts of rural Tibetans to improve livelihoods. Early interventions to […]

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Learning from innovation: implications of an integrated development project in Chiapas, Mexico

01/05/2009

9 pages long

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This is a case study of an integral local development project combining elements of agro-ecology, fair trade, and risk-conservative finance, operated in partnership between a grassroots organisation and a promoter organisation. We conclude that insurance is a key element in the transition from a traditional rural household economic unit to a family enterprise. We reflect […]

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Developing small production and marketing enterprises: mushroom contract farming in Bangladesh

01/09/2009

10 pages long

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This article presents a case study of an activity implemented under the FAO component of the Local Partnerships for Urban Poverty Alleviation Project, funded by UNDP in Bangladesh. In Mymensingh city the project is linking poor urban dwellers with a niche market for oyster mushroom. This small enterprise activity appears to be sustainable, in that […]

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Rebel voices and radio actors: in pursuit of dialogue and debate in northern Uganda

01/06/2009

11 pages long

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This paper seeks to understand the restrictions media actors face in their day-to-day work in Acholiland, northern Uganda, and identify the strategies they adopt to maintain a space for dialogue and debate. Two case studies reveal that it is difficult to see how media actors in this conflict environment can play a significant role in […]

Showing 313 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Development? Freedom? Whose development and freedom?

01/04/2006

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This paper critiques the ‘freedom-centred’ view of development by arguing that while development must be about expanding peoples’ freedoms, the dynamics of power between ‘developers’ and ‘developees’ must not be ignored. There is little analysis of the implications of multi-party political system (seemingly equated with democracy) in facilitating development and freedom. Using Malawi as an […]

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How can PhD research contribute to the global health research agenda?

01/11/2006

6 pages long

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Overview

We suggest that PhD and post-doctoral researchers are a strong, untapped resource with the potential to make a real contribution to global health research (GHR). However, we raise some ethical, institutional, and funding issues that either discourage new researchers from entering the field or diminish their capacity to contribute. We offer a number of recommendations […]

Journal article

Everyday practices of humanitarian aid: tsunami response in Sri Lanka

01/06/2006

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article underlines the importance of grounding the analysis of humanitarian aid in an understanding of everyday practice. It presents ethnographic vignettes illustrating three aspects of aid response in Sri Lanka following the tsunami disaster in 2004. The first deals with the nature of humanitarian actors, the second explores how different kinds of politics intertwine, […]

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Capacity building: who builds whose capacity?

01/08/2007

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on the role that development NGOs play in capacity building, arguing that many conventional NGO practices are ultimately about retaining power, rather than empowering their partners. This leads to tunnel vision and to upward rather than downward or horizontal accountability, based on the assumption that the transfer of resources is a one-way […]

Journal article

New forms of environmental governance? A case study of Costa Rican environmental NGOs

01/06/2008

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Increasingly development theorists and practitioners view NGOs as catalysts of sustainable development. NGOs have been regarded as champions of democratisation and promoters of new ways of engaging in politics, with considerable influence on the development of civil society and new partnerships in environmental and social advocacy. This article analyses the ways in which Costa Rican […]

Journal article

An innovative approach to building stronger coalitions: the Net-Map Toolbox

01/01/2009

2 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

A common challenge faces development organisations, from the highest policy-making circles to local, grassroots organisations: how to work with other groups to build stronger partnerships and achieve consensus on goals? This article describes the Net-Map Toolbox, a new tool which builds and expands upon existing social-networking approaches. The article highlights the experience of using the […]

Journal article

Health and hygiene behaviour change: bottom-up meets top-down in Tibet

01/05/2009

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The Tibet Poverty Alleviation Fund (TPAF) has been working in the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China since 1998 to increase the income and assets of rural Tibetans. From the beginning, TPAF recognised that high morbidity and mortality were a constraint on efforts of rural Tibetans to improve livelihoods. Early interventions to […]

Journal article

Learning from innovation: implications of an integrated development project in Chiapas, Mexico

01/05/2009

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This is a case study of an integral local development project combining elements of agro-ecology, fair trade, and risk-conservative finance, operated in partnership between a grassroots organisation and a promoter organisation. We conclude that insurance is a key element in the transition from a traditional rural household economic unit to a family enterprise. We reflect […]

Journal article

Developing small production and marketing enterprises: mushroom contract farming in Bangladesh

01/09/2009

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article presents a case study of an activity implemented under the FAO component of the Local Partnerships for Urban Poverty Alleviation Project, funded by UNDP in Bangladesh. In Mymensingh city the project is linking poor urban dwellers with a niche market for oyster mushroom. This small enterprise activity appears to be sustainable, in that […]

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Rebel voices and radio actors: in pursuit of dialogue and debate in northern Uganda

01/06/2009

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This paper seeks to understand the restrictions media actors face in their day-to-day work in Acholiland, northern Uganda, and identify the strategies they adopt to maintain a space for dialogue and debate. Two case studies reveal that it is difficult to see how media actors in this conflict environment can play a significant role in […]

Showing 313 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Development? Freedom? Whose development and freedom?

01/04/2006

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This paper critiques the ‘freedom-centred’ view of development by arguing that while development must be about expanding peoples’ freedoms, the dynamics of power between ‘developers’ and ‘developees’ must not be ignored. There is little analysis of the implications of multi-party political system (seemingly equated with democracy) in facilitating development and freedom. Using Malawi as an […]

Journal article

How can PhD research contribute to the global health research agenda?

01/11/2006

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

We suggest that PhD and post-doctoral researchers are a strong, untapped resource with the potential to make a real contribution to global health research (GHR). However, we raise some ethical, institutional, and funding issues that either discourage new researchers from entering the field or diminish their capacity to contribute. We offer a number of recommendations […]

Journal article

Everyday practices of humanitarian aid: tsunami response in Sri Lanka

01/06/2006

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article underlines the importance of grounding the analysis of humanitarian aid in an understanding of everyday practice. It presents ethnographic vignettes illustrating three aspects of aid response in Sri Lanka following the tsunami disaster in 2004. The first deals with the nature of humanitarian actors, the second explores how different kinds of politics intertwine, […]

Journal article

Capacity building: who builds whose capacity?

01/08/2007

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on the role that development NGOs play in capacity building, arguing that many conventional NGO practices are ultimately about retaining power, rather than empowering their partners. This leads to tunnel vision and to upward rather than downward or horizontal accountability, based on the assumption that the transfer of resources is a one-way […]

Journal article

New forms of environmental governance? A case study of Costa Rican environmental NGOs

01/06/2008

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Increasingly development theorists and practitioners view NGOs as catalysts of sustainable development. NGOs have been regarded as champions of democratisation and promoters of new ways of engaging in politics, with considerable influence on the development of civil society and new partnerships in environmental and social advocacy. This article analyses the ways in which Costa Rican […]

Journal article

An innovative approach to building stronger coalitions: the Net-Map Toolbox

01/01/2009

2 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

A common challenge faces development organisations, from the highest policy-making circles to local, grassroots organisations: how to work with other groups to build stronger partnerships and achieve consensus on goals? This article describes the Net-Map Toolbox, a new tool which builds and expands upon existing social-networking approaches. The article highlights the experience of using the […]

Journal article

Health and hygiene behaviour change: bottom-up meets top-down in Tibet

01/05/2009

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The Tibet Poverty Alleviation Fund (TPAF) has been working in the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China since 1998 to increase the income and assets of rural Tibetans. From the beginning, TPAF recognised that high morbidity and mortality were a constraint on efforts of rural Tibetans to improve livelihoods. Early interventions to […]

Journal article

Learning from innovation: implications of an integrated development project in Chiapas, Mexico

01/05/2009

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This is a case study of an integral local development project combining elements of agro-ecology, fair trade, and risk-conservative finance, operated in partnership between a grassroots organisation and a promoter organisation. We conclude that insurance is a key element in the transition from a traditional rural household economic unit to a family enterprise. We reflect […]

Journal article

Developing small production and marketing enterprises: mushroom contract farming in Bangladesh

01/09/2009

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article presents a case study of an activity implemented under the FAO component of the Local Partnerships for Urban Poverty Alleviation Project, funded by UNDP in Bangladesh. In Mymensingh city the project is linking poor urban dwellers with a niche market for oyster mushroom. This small enterprise activity appears to be sustainable, in that […]

Journal article

Rebel voices and radio actors: in pursuit of dialogue and debate in northern Uganda

01/06/2009

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This paper seeks to understand the restrictions media actors face in their day-to-day work in Acholiland, northern Uganda, and identify the strategies they adopt to maintain a space for dialogue and debate. Two case studies reveal that it is difficult to see how media actors in this conflict environment can play a significant role in […]