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Listening to the rice grow’: the local–expat interface in Lao-based international NGOs

01/02/2010

14 pages long

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Generally speaking, NGO studies have focused their attention on the organisational unit and its role in shaping development outcomes. With few exceptions, the analysis of development partnerships, in which NGOs play a crucial role, has largely been confined to examination of ‘donors’ and ‘receivers’ and not the dynamics within organisational settings. This article is concerned […]

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Eco-regional conservation and development in Madagascar: a review of USAID-funded efforts in two priority landscapes

01/05/2010

15 pages long

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The need for eco-regional or landscape-scale conservation and development has been widely recognised in Madagascar, yet implementation remains problematic. The approach was initially driven by biodiversity-conservation concerns, without enough emphasis on sustainable development, especially agriculture. Current challenges include consensus building for eco-regional visions, strengthening partnerships with government institutions, and negotiating land-use trade-offs within focal landscapes. […]

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Madrasas as partners in education provision: the South Asian experience

01/06/2010

13 pages long

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Madrasas, Islamic schools, are prominent non-state education providers in South Asia, especially for hard-to-reach children in Muslim communities. Recent attention on madrasas has, however, focused on their alleged links with militancy, overshadowing analysis of their role as education providers. Based on a comparative analysis of the state-led madrasa-modernisation programmes in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan, which […]

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Working effectively with non-state actors to deliver education in fragile states

01/06/2010

8 pages long

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This viewpoint uses evaluation reports from Nepal, Afghanistan, and Yemen in order to learn lessons about how donors and governments can work more effectively with non-state actors to deliver education in fragile states. The evaluation framework draws on the Development Assistance Committee principles for good international engagement in fragile states. The analysis concludes that a […]

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Facilitating the entry of communities in the herbal medicine sector: GMCL in India

01/04/2011

13 pages long

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The medicinal plant sector is on the increase in many developing countries. Despite this, the existing supply chain is unable to improve the livelihoods of the gatherers. This article considers Gram Mooligai Company Limited (GMCL), the first community-based enterprise active in the herbal sector. GMCL promotes a more equitable sharing of benefits in the sector, […]

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International lobbying for change

01/10/1994

4 pages long

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International lobbying for change

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Obtaining recognition of domestic violence as a rights issue at the recent UN ‘World Conference on Human Rights’, was due largely to activism worldwide. It is hopeful that activism can also secure results in the 1995 ‘World Conference on Women’. Lieshout examines how activism worked for the UN Conference, with a global petition and NGO […]

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Thinking about ‘culture’: some programme pointers

01/02/1995

6 pages long

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Thinking about ‘culture’: some programme pointers

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Those seeking gender equality must take care when challenging harmful cultural practices not to damage practices that are neutral or constructive for women. This article suggests ways to do this. Local cultural contexts must always be understood, and ways sought to empower women long term, particularly by changing patriarchal attitudes. Local women’s groups can achieve […]

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Participation in the city: where do women fit in?

01/02/1996

8 pages long

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Participation in the city: where do women fit in?

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Women’s priorities have often been ignored in the design of human settlements, the location of housing, and the provision of urban services. New forms of urban partnership are needed, to develop participatory processes that include women and men at all stages of urban development. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For […]

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Crossing borders and building bridges: the Baltic Region Networking Project

01/03/2002

10 pages long

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Crossing borders and building bridges: the Baltic Region Networking Project

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16 year old Lithuanian girl found dead on a highway outside Malmö in Southern Sweden.’ She committed suicide after escaping from an apartment where she earned her living selling sexual services. ‘Czech girls kept as sex slaves at a hotel outside Stockholm calling their mothers for help.’ Headlines like this concerning the trafficking of women […]

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Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

01/11/2003

8 pages long

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Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

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Proverbial statements about women being second-class citizens are familiar in many societies. It is vitally important to challenge the many barriers to full citizenship that confront women, and barriers to women’s human rights in general. Development interventions must help to do this. The denial of equal citizenship to women is a phenomenon familiar in many […]

Showing 313 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Listening to the rice grow’: the local–expat interface in Lao-based international NGOs

01/02/2010

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Generally speaking, NGO studies have focused their attention on the organisational unit and its role in shaping development outcomes. With few exceptions, the analysis of development partnerships, in which NGOs play a crucial role, has largely been confined to examination of ‘donors’ and ‘receivers’ and not the dynamics within organisational settings. This article is concerned […]

Journal article

Eco-regional conservation and development in Madagascar: a review of USAID-funded efforts in two priority landscapes

01/05/2010

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The need for eco-regional or landscape-scale conservation and development has been widely recognised in Madagascar, yet implementation remains problematic. The approach was initially driven by biodiversity-conservation concerns, without enough emphasis on sustainable development, especially agriculture. Current challenges include consensus building for eco-regional visions, strengthening partnerships with government institutions, and negotiating land-use trade-offs within focal landscapes. […]

Journal article

Madrasas as partners in education provision: the South Asian experience

01/06/2010

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Madrasas, Islamic schools, are prominent non-state education providers in South Asia, especially for hard-to-reach children in Muslim communities. Recent attention on madrasas has, however, focused on their alleged links with militancy, overshadowing analysis of their role as education providers. Based on a comparative analysis of the state-led madrasa-modernisation programmes in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan, which […]

Journal article

Working effectively with non-state actors to deliver education in fragile states

01/06/2010

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This viewpoint uses evaluation reports from Nepal, Afghanistan, and Yemen in order to learn lessons about how donors and governments can work more effectively with non-state actors to deliver education in fragile states. The evaluation framework draws on the Development Assistance Committee principles for good international engagement in fragile states. The analysis concludes that a […]

Journal article

Facilitating the entry of communities in the herbal medicine sector: GMCL in India

01/04/2011

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The medicinal plant sector is on the increase in many developing countries. Despite this, the existing supply chain is unable to improve the livelihoods of the gatherers. This article considers Gram Mooligai Company Limited (GMCL), the first community-based enterprise active in the herbal sector. GMCL promotes a more equitable sharing of benefits in the sector, […]

Journal article

International lobbying for change

01/10/1994

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

International lobbying for change

Keywords

Overview

Obtaining recognition of domestic violence as a rights issue at the recent UN ‘World Conference on Human Rights’, was due largely to activism worldwide. It is hopeful that activism can also secure results in the 1995 ‘World Conference on Women’. Lieshout examines how activism worked for the UN Conference, with a global petition and NGO […]

Journal article

Thinking about ‘culture’: some programme pointers

01/02/1995

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Thinking about ‘culture’: some programme pointers

Keywords

Overview

Those seeking gender equality must take care when challenging harmful cultural practices not to damage practices that are neutral or constructive for women. This article suggests ways to do this. Local cultural contexts must always be understood, and ways sought to empower women long term, particularly by changing patriarchal attitudes. Local women’s groups can achieve […]

Journal article

Participation in the city: where do women fit in?

01/02/1996

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Participation in the city: where do women fit in?

Keywords

Overview

Women’s priorities have often been ignored in the design of human settlements, the location of housing, and the provision of urban services. New forms of urban partnership are needed, to develop participatory processes that include women and men at all stages of urban development. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For […]

Journal article

Crossing borders and building bridges: the Baltic Region Networking Project

01/03/2002

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Crossing borders and building bridges: the Baltic Region Networking Project

Keywords

Overview

16 year old Lithuanian girl found dead on a highway outside Malmö in Southern Sweden.’ She committed suicide after escaping from an apartment where she earned her living selling sexual services. ‘Czech girls kept as sex slaves at a hotel outside Stockholm calling their mothers for help.’ Headlines like this concerning the trafficking of women […]

Journal article

Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

01/11/2003

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

Keywords

Overview

Proverbial statements about women being second-class citizens are familiar in many societies. It is vitally important to challenge the many barriers to full citizenship that confront women, and barriers to women’s human rights in general. Development interventions must help to do this. The denial of equal citizenship to women is a phenomenon familiar in many […]

Showing 313 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Listening to the rice grow’: the local–expat interface in Lao-based international NGOs

01/02/2010

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Generally speaking, NGO studies have focused their attention on the organisational unit and its role in shaping development outcomes. With few exceptions, the analysis of development partnerships, in which NGOs play a crucial role, has largely been confined to examination of ‘donors’ and ‘receivers’ and not the dynamics within organisational settings. This article is concerned […]

Journal article

Eco-regional conservation and development in Madagascar: a review of USAID-funded efforts in two priority landscapes

01/05/2010

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The need for eco-regional or landscape-scale conservation and development has been widely recognised in Madagascar, yet implementation remains problematic. The approach was initially driven by biodiversity-conservation concerns, without enough emphasis on sustainable development, especially agriculture. Current challenges include consensus building for eco-regional visions, strengthening partnerships with government institutions, and negotiating land-use trade-offs within focal landscapes. […]

Journal article

Madrasas as partners in education provision: the South Asian experience

01/06/2010

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Madrasas, Islamic schools, are prominent non-state education providers in South Asia, especially for hard-to-reach children in Muslim communities. Recent attention on madrasas has, however, focused on their alleged links with militancy, overshadowing analysis of their role as education providers. Based on a comparative analysis of the state-led madrasa-modernisation programmes in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan, which […]

Journal article

Working effectively with non-state actors to deliver education in fragile states

01/06/2010

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This viewpoint uses evaluation reports from Nepal, Afghanistan, and Yemen in order to learn lessons about how donors and governments can work more effectively with non-state actors to deliver education in fragile states. The evaluation framework draws on the Development Assistance Committee principles for good international engagement in fragile states. The analysis concludes that a […]

Journal article

Facilitating the entry of communities in the herbal medicine sector: GMCL in India

01/04/2011

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The medicinal plant sector is on the increase in many developing countries. Despite this, the existing supply chain is unable to improve the livelihoods of the gatherers. This article considers Gram Mooligai Company Limited (GMCL), the first community-based enterprise active in the herbal sector. GMCL promotes a more equitable sharing of benefits in the sector, […]

Journal article

International lobbying for change

01/10/1994

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

International lobbying for change

Keywords

Overview

Obtaining recognition of domestic violence as a rights issue at the recent UN ‘World Conference on Human Rights’, was due largely to activism worldwide. It is hopeful that activism can also secure results in the 1995 ‘World Conference on Women’. Lieshout examines how activism worked for the UN Conference, with a global petition and NGO […]

Journal article

Thinking about ‘culture’: some programme pointers

01/02/1995

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Thinking about ‘culture’: some programme pointers

Keywords

Overview

Those seeking gender equality must take care when challenging harmful cultural practices not to damage practices that are neutral or constructive for women. This article suggests ways to do this. Local cultural contexts must always be understood, and ways sought to empower women long term, particularly by changing patriarchal attitudes. Local women’s groups can achieve […]

Journal article

Participation in the city: where do women fit in?

01/02/1996

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Participation in the city: where do women fit in?

Keywords

Overview

Women’s priorities have often been ignored in the design of human settlements, the location of housing, and the provision of urban services. New forms of urban partnership are needed, to develop participatory processes that include women and men at all stages of urban development. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For […]

Journal article

Crossing borders and building bridges: the Baltic Region Networking Project

01/03/2002

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Crossing borders and building bridges: the Baltic Region Networking Project

Keywords

Overview

16 year old Lithuanian girl found dead on a highway outside Malmö in Southern Sweden.’ She committed suicide after escaping from an apartment where she earned her living selling sexual services. ‘Czech girls kept as sex slaves at a hotel outside Stockholm calling their mothers for help.’ Headlines like this concerning the trafficking of women […]

Journal article

Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

01/11/2003

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

Keywords

Overview

Proverbial statements about women being second-class citizens are familiar in many societies. It is vitally important to challenge the many barriers to full citizenship that confront women, and barriers to women’s human rights in general. Development interventions must help to do this. The denial of equal citizenship to women is a phenomenon familiar in many […]