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Using geographic information systems (gis) for gender and development

01/04/2005

7 pages long

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Using geographic information systems (gis) for gender and development

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This article discusses the burgeoning field of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), with a particular focus on the opportunities for its application as part of the international women and development agenda. We discuss recent theoretical developments in critical GIS and feminist theory which have created this opportunity, as well as the problems inherent in using GIS […]

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Attacking social exclusion: combining rehabilitative and preventive approaches to leprosy in Bangladesh

01/08/2005

9 pages long

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Based on primary research on the applicability of social exclusion frameworks to the experiences of people with leprosy in Bangladesh, this article compares two means of intervention: health education of society, and socio-economic rehabilitation of individual patients. These interventions commonly remain distinct, but it is concluded that only by integrating the two approaches can deep-seated […]

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Beyond PRA: experiments in facilitating local action in water management

01/08/2005

12 pages long

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As a tool both for research and for structuring community-level interaction, Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) is now well embedded in development practice. This paper, however, argues that in order to play an enabling role towards community action, facilitators need to offer much more than the traditional PRA approach. Based on work with groups of women […]

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Arms sales and development: making the critical connection

01/08/2005

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This Research Round-up summarises the findings of the 2004 Control Arms Report: Guns or Growth? Assessing the Impact of Arms Sales on Sustainable Development, published by Amnesty International, IANSA, and Oxfam International, in association with Ploughshares and Saferworld. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

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What difference can they make? Assessing the social impact of corporate codes of practice

01/06/2005

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As retailers in the North increasingly adopt codes of practice containing social and/or environmental provisions in global supply chains, there is a need for rigorous assessment of their social impact. Moving beyond the rhetoric, it is important to establish the actual impact of such codes on poorer workers, their families, and other local stakeholders. This […]

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Managing ethical standards: When rhetoric meets reality

01/06/2005

10 pages long

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In the last two decades, the private sector has been placed under intensifying pressure to ensure it operates in an environmentally and socially responsible manner. Companies have moved through various phases of response, starting with a ‘deny and defend’ position, moving to ‘paying penance’ through donations and philanthropy, and currently settling on risk management through […]

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Changes in the lives of the ultra poor: an exploratory study

01/02/2006

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This Research Roundup reports on the pilot phase of BRAC’s æChallenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction/Targeting the Ultra Poor Programme’ (CFPR/TUP), which was initiated in three of the poorest districts of northern Bangladesh (Nilphamari, Rangpur, and Kurigram) in January 2002. The authors find a close link between the initial conditions of the programme participants and […]

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The future of Fair Trade coffee: dilemmas facing Latin America’s small-scale producers

01/04/2006

14 pages long

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Fair Trade has become a dynamic and successful dimension of an emerging counter-tendency to the neo-liberal globalisation regime. This study explores some of the dilemmas facing the Fair Trade movement as it seeks to broaden and deepen its impact among the rural poor of Latin America’s coffee sector. We argue that the efforts to broaden […]

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Web 2.0: a new chapter in development in practice?

01/11/2006

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This brief paper describes a range of facilities and new developments in Web-based and Internet services. While many of the applications are being used for publishing, dialogue, research, and feedback in development, the question still remains: how profoundly is the development of communications, and in particular the Internet, changing the international development community and the […]

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Indigenous floating cultivation: a sustainable agricultural practice in the wetlands of Bangladesh

01/02/2007

7 pages long

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Floating-bed cultivation has proved a successful means to produce agricultural crops in various wetland areas of the world. In freshwater lakes and wetlands, vegetables, flowers, and seedlings are grown in Bangladesh using this floating cultivation technique, without any additional irrigation or chemical fertiliser. No detailed study of this indigenous cultivation technique has been published to […]

Showing 455 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Using geographic information systems (gis) for gender and development

01/04/2005

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Using geographic information systems (gis) for gender and development

Keywords

Overview

This article discusses the burgeoning field of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), with a particular focus on the opportunities for its application as part of the international women and development agenda. We discuss recent theoretical developments in critical GIS and feminist theory which have created this opportunity, as well as the problems inherent in using GIS […]

Journal article

Attacking social exclusion: combining rehabilitative and preventive approaches to leprosy in Bangladesh

01/08/2005

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Based on primary research on the applicability of social exclusion frameworks to the experiences of people with leprosy in Bangladesh, this article compares two means of intervention: health education of society, and socio-economic rehabilitation of individual patients. These interventions commonly remain distinct, but it is concluded that only by integrating the two approaches can deep-seated […]

Journal article

Beyond PRA: experiments in facilitating local action in water management

01/08/2005

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

As a tool both for research and for structuring community-level interaction, Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) is now well embedded in development practice. This paper, however, argues that in order to play an enabling role towards community action, facilitators need to offer much more than the traditional PRA approach. Based on work with groups of women […]

Journal article

Arms sales and development: making the critical connection

01/08/2005

7 pages long

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Overview

This Research Round-up summarises the findings of the 2004 Control Arms Report: Guns or Growth? Assessing the Impact of Arms Sales on Sustainable Development, published by Amnesty International, IANSA, and Oxfam International, in association with Ploughshares and Saferworld. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

Journal article

What difference can they make? Assessing the social impact of corporate codes of practice

01/06/2005

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

As retailers in the North increasingly adopt codes of practice containing social and/or environmental provisions in global supply chains, there is a need for rigorous assessment of their social impact. Moving beyond the rhetoric, it is important to establish the actual impact of such codes on poorer workers, their families, and other local stakeholders. This […]

Journal article

Managing ethical standards: When rhetoric meets reality

01/06/2005

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

In the last two decades, the private sector has been placed under intensifying pressure to ensure it operates in an environmentally and socially responsible manner. Companies have moved through various phases of response, starting with a ‘deny and defend’ position, moving to ‘paying penance’ through donations and philanthropy, and currently settling on risk management through […]

Journal article

Changes in the lives of the ultra poor: an exploratory study

01/02/2006

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This Research Roundup reports on the pilot phase of BRAC’s æChallenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction/Targeting the Ultra Poor Programme’ (CFPR/TUP), which was initiated in three of the poorest districts of northern Bangladesh (Nilphamari, Rangpur, and Kurigram) in January 2002. The authors find a close link between the initial conditions of the programme participants and […]

Journal article

The future of Fair Trade coffee: dilemmas facing Latin America’s small-scale producers

01/04/2006

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Fair Trade has become a dynamic and successful dimension of an emerging counter-tendency to the neo-liberal globalisation regime. This study explores some of the dilemmas facing the Fair Trade movement as it seeks to broaden and deepen its impact among the rural poor of Latin America’s coffee sector. We argue that the efforts to broaden […]

Journal article

Web 2.0: a new chapter in development in practice?

01/11/2006

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This brief paper describes a range of facilities and new developments in Web-based and Internet services. While many of the applications are being used for publishing, dialogue, research, and feedback in development, the question still remains: how profoundly is the development of communications, and in particular the Internet, changing the international development community and the […]

Journal article

Indigenous floating cultivation: a sustainable agricultural practice in the wetlands of Bangladesh

01/02/2007

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Floating-bed cultivation has proved a successful means to produce agricultural crops in various wetland areas of the world. In freshwater lakes and wetlands, vegetables, flowers, and seedlings are grown in Bangladesh using this floating cultivation technique, without any additional irrigation or chemical fertiliser. No detailed study of this indigenous cultivation technique has been published to […]

Showing 455 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Using geographic information systems (gis) for gender and development

01/04/2005

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Using geographic information systems (gis) for gender and development

Keywords

Overview

This article discusses the burgeoning field of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), with a particular focus on the opportunities for its application as part of the international women and development agenda. We discuss recent theoretical developments in critical GIS and feminist theory which have created this opportunity, as well as the problems inherent in using GIS […]

Journal article

Attacking social exclusion: combining rehabilitative and preventive approaches to leprosy in Bangladesh

01/08/2005

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Based on primary research on the applicability of social exclusion frameworks to the experiences of people with leprosy in Bangladesh, this article compares two means of intervention: health education of society, and socio-economic rehabilitation of individual patients. These interventions commonly remain distinct, but it is concluded that only by integrating the two approaches can deep-seated […]

Journal article

Beyond PRA: experiments in facilitating local action in water management

01/08/2005

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

As a tool both for research and for structuring community-level interaction, Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) is now well embedded in development practice. This paper, however, argues that in order to play an enabling role towards community action, facilitators need to offer much more than the traditional PRA approach. Based on work with groups of women […]

Journal article

Arms sales and development: making the critical connection

01/08/2005

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This Research Round-up summarises the findings of the 2004 Control Arms Report: Guns or Growth? Assessing the Impact of Arms Sales on Sustainable Development, published by Amnesty International, IANSA, and Oxfam International, in association with Ploughshares and Saferworld. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

Journal article

What difference can they make? Assessing the social impact of corporate codes of practice

01/06/2005

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

As retailers in the North increasingly adopt codes of practice containing social and/or environmental provisions in global supply chains, there is a need for rigorous assessment of their social impact. Moving beyond the rhetoric, it is important to establish the actual impact of such codes on poorer workers, their families, and other local stakeholders. This […]

Journal article

Managing ethical standards: When rhetoric meets reality

01/06/2005

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

In the last two decades, the private sector has been placed under intensifying pressure to ensure it operates in an environmentally and socially responsible manner. Companies have moved through various phases of response, starting with a ‘deny and defend’ position, moving to ‘paying penance’ through donations and philanthropy, and currently settling on risk management through […]

Journal article

Changes in the lives of the ultra poor: an exploratory study

01/02/2006

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This Research Roundup reports on the pilot phase of BRAC’s æChallenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction/Targeting the Ultra Poor Programme’ (CFPR/TUP), which was initiated in three of the poorest districts of northern Bangladesh (Nilphamari, Rangpur, and Kurigram) in January 2002. The authors find a close link between the initial conditions of the programme participants and […]

Journal article

The future of Fair Trade coffee: dilemmas facing Latin America’s small-scale producers

01/04/2006

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Fair Trade has become a dynamic and successful dimension of an emerging counter-tendency to the neo-liberal globalisation regime. This study explores some of the dilemmas facing the Fair Trade movement as it seeks to broaden and deepen its impact among the rural poor of Latin America’s coffee sector. We argue that the efforts to broaden […]

Journal article

Web 2.0: a new chapter in development in practice?

01/11/2006

5 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This brief paper describes a range of facilities and new developments in Web-based and Internet services. While many of the applications are being used for publishing, dialogue, research, and feedback in development, the question still remains: how profoundly is the development of communications, and in particular the Internet, changing the international development community and the […]

Journal article

Indigenous floating cultivation: a sustainable agricultural practice in the wetlands of Bangladesh

01/02/2007

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Floating-bed cultivation has proved a successful means to produce agricultural crops in various wetland areas of the world. In freshwater lakes and wetlands, vegetables, flowers, and seedlings are grown in Bangladesh using this floating cultivation technique, without any additional irrigation or chemical fertiliser. No detailed study of this indigenous cultivation technique has been published to […]