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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 […]

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Ni Vanuatu women graduates: what happens when they go home?

01/02/2007

7 pages long

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Part of New Zealand’s aid to Pacific Island nations is given in the form of tertiary scholarships. Students awarded scholarships study at tertiary institutions throughout the Pacific, including New Zealand. But what is it like when they return home, fitting back into their culture and family life, and finding work? The research described in this […]

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Amartya K. Sen and social exclusion

01/04/2007

7 pages long

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Andries Du Toit (2004) argues that the concept of social exclusion has limited use in the field of development studies, since chronic poverty is often the result of incorporation on particularly disadvantageous terms (‘adverse incorporation’) rather than any process of exclusion. Du Toit therefore advocates going beyond thinking about ‘exclusion’ and ‘inclusion’ in binary terms […]

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Increasing strategic accountability: a framework for international NGOs

01/04/2007

18 pages long

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The accountability of international development NGOs (INGOs) has attracted a great deal of interest from academics and development practitioners. INGO accountability falls into two categories: practical accountability (for the use of inputs, the way activities are performed, and outputs) and strategic accountability for INGOs’ performance in relation to their mission. This article presents a conceptual […]

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NGOs and multi-layered management of protected resources in Belize and Malaysia

01/06/2007

6 pages long

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Development methods

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Constrained largely by lack of resources – technical, financial, legal, and/or administrative – governments in developing countries often create multi-layered management structures to regulate and monitor protected resources. Such structures are created when non-government organisations are given authority to monitor and/or manage certain aspects of a protected natural or indigenous resource. Other aspects, often regulatory, […]

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Civil society and reconciliation in Southern Africa

01/06/2007

16 pages long

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This article presents some of the key findings of the Southern African Reconciliation Project (SARP). The SARP was a collaborative research project involving five Southern African NGOs in Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. It examined how the concept of reconciliation was understood in political and community contexts in Southern Africa and investigated the […]

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Engaging elite support for the poorest? BRAC’s Targeted Ultra Poor programme for rural women in Bangladesh

01/06/2007

13 pages long

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Engaging elite support for the poorest? BRAC’s Targeted Ultra Poor programme for rural women in Bangladesh

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This article draws preliminary lessons from the experience of engaging village elites in support of a BRAC programme for ultra-poor women in rural Bangladesh. It describes the origins, aims, and operation of this programme, which provides comprehensive livelihood support and productive assets to the extreme poor. Based on field research in the rural north-west, the […]

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Community-managed rice banks: lessons from Laos

01/06/2007

9 pages long

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Rice banks are increasingly used in South-East Asia as a means of addressing seasonal food crises facing poor communities. Despite general agreement about the effectiveness of community-managed rice banks in improving food security, there has been almost no research into their effectiveness in reaching the poorest, or the prospects of sustainability linked to regular repayments […]

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The Capacity-building Paradox: using friendship to build capacity in the South

01/06/2007

14 pages long

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This article proposes a theoretical framework, the Capacity-building Paradox, which defines individual relationship work as the basis for capacity building. It explains why capacity building has hitherto been largely unsuccessful. ‘Relationship work’ is central to the functions of practitioners. It consists of both ‘dependent work’ and ‘friendship work’, the latter synonymous with capacity building. To […]

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Development, racism, and discrimination in the Dominican Republic

01/11/2007

13 pages long

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From an analysis of recent empirical research in the Dominican Republic, this article addresses the ways in which racism underpins elements of governance, and explores organisational and individual responses to racialised discrimination initiated by the state. The context is timely, given the steady rise in reported racist and violent attacks against people presumed to be […]

Showing 462 matching results from Policy & Practice

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 […]

Journal article

Ni Vanuatu women graduates: what happens when they go home?

01/02/2007

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Part of New Zealand’s aid to Pacific Island nations is given in the form of tertiary scholarships. Students awarded scholarships study at tertiary institutions throughout the Pacific, including New Zealand. But what is it like when they return home, fitting back into their culture and family life, and finding work? The research described in this […]

Journal article

Amartya K. Sen and social exclusion

01/04/2007

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Andries Du Toit (2004) argues that the concept of social exclusion has limited use in the field of development studies, since chronic poverty is often the result of incorporation on particularly disadvantageous terms (‘adverse incorporation’) rather than any process of exclusion. Du Toit therefore advocates going beyond thinking about ‘exclusion’ and ‘inclusion’ in binary terms […]

Journal article

Increasing strategic accountability: a framework for international NGOs

01/04/2007

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The accountability of international development NGOs (INGOs) has attracted a great deal of interest from academics and development practitioners. INGO accountability falls into two categories: practical accountability (for the use of inputs, the way activities are performed, and outputs) and strategic accountability for INGOs’ performance in relation to their mission. This article presents a conceptual […]

Journal article

NGOs and multi-layered management of protected resources in Belize and Malaysia

01/06/2007

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Development methods

Overview

Constrained largely by lack of resources – technical, financial, legal, and/or administrative – governments in developing countries often create multi-layered management structures to regulate and monitor protected resources. Such structures are created when non-government organisations are given authority to monitor and/or manage certain aspects of a protected natural or indigenous resource. Other aspects, often regulatory, […]

Journal article

Civil society and reconciliation in Southern Africa

01/06/2007

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article presents some of the key findings of the Southern African Reconciliation Project (SARP). The SARP was a collaborative research project involving five Southern African NGOs in Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. It examined how the concept of reconciliation was understood in political and community contexts in Southern Africa and investigated the […]

Journal article

Engaging elite support for the poorest? BRAC’s Targeted Ultra Poor programme for rural women in Bangladesh

01/06/2007

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Engaging elite support for the poorest? BRAC’s Targeted Ultra Poor programme for rural women in Bangladesh

Keywords

Overview

This article draws preliminary lessons from the experience of engaging village elites in support of a BRAC programme for ultra-poor women in rural Bangladesh. It describes the origins, aims, and operation of this programme, which provides comprehensive livelihood support and productive assets to the extreme poor. Based on field research in the rural north-west, the […]

Journal article

Community-managed rice banks: lessons from Laos

01/06/2007

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Rice banks are increasingly used in South-East Asia as a means of addressing seasonal food crises facing poor communities. Despite general agreement about the effectiveness of community-managed rice banks in improving food security, there has been almost no research into their effectiveness in reaching the poorest, or the prospects of sustainability linked to regular repayments […]

Journal article

The Capacity-building Paradox: using friendship to build capacity in the South

01/06/2007

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article proposes a theoretical framework, the Capacity-building Paradox, which defines individual relationship work as the basis for capacity building. It explains why capacity building has hitherto been largely unsuccessful. ‘Relationship work’ is central to the functions of practitioners. It consists of both ‘dependent work’ and ‘friendship work’, the latter synonymous with capacity building. To […]

Journal article

Development, racism, and discrimination in the Dominican Republic

01/11/2007

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

From an analysis of recent empirical research in the Dominican Republic, this article addresses the ways in which racism underpins elements of governance, and explores organisational and individual responses to racialised discrimination initiated by the state. The context is timely, given the steady rise in reported racist and violent attacks against people presumed to be […]

Showing 462 matching results from Policy & Practice

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 […]

Journal article

Ni Vanuatu women graduates: what happens when they go home?

01/02/2007

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Part of New Zealand’s aid to Pacific Island nations is given in the form of tertiary scholarships. Students awarded scholarships study at tertiary institutions throughout the Pacific, including New Zealand. But what is it like when they return home, fitting back into their culture and family life, and finding work? The research described in this […]

Journal article

Amartya K. Sen and social exclusion

01/04/2007

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Andries Du Toit (2004) argues that the concept of social exclusion has limited use in the field of development studies, since chronic poverty is often the result of incorporation on particularly disadvantageous terms (‘adverse incorporation’) rather than any process of exclusion. Du Toit therefore advocates going beyond thinking about ‘exclusion’ and ‘inclusion’ in binary terms […]

Journal article

Increasing strategic accountability: a framework for international NGOs

01/04/2007

18 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The accountability of international development NGOs (INGOs) has attracted a great deal of interest from academics and development practitioners. INGO accountability falls into two categories: practical accountability (for the use of inputs, the way activities are performed, and outputs) and strategic accountability for INGOs’ performance in relation to their mission. This article presents a conceptual […]

Journal article

NGOs and multi-layered management of protected resources in Belize and Malaysia

01/06/2007

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Development methods

Overview

Constrained largely by lack of resources – technical, financial, legal, and/or administrative – governments in developing countries often create multi-layered management structures to regulate and monitor protected resources. Such structures are created when non-government organisations are given authority to monitor and/or manage certain aspects of a protected natural or indigenous resource. Other aspects, often regulatory, […]

Journal article

Civil society and reconciliation in Southern Africa

01/06/2007

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article presents some of the key findings of the Southern African Reconciliation Project (SARP). The SARP was a collaborative research project involving five Southern African NGOs in Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. It examined how the concept of reconciliation was understood in political and community contexts in Southern Africa and investigated the […]

Journal article

Engaging elite support for the poorest? BRAC’s Targeted Ultra Poor programme for rural women in Bangladesh

01/06/2007

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Engaging elite support for the poorest? BRAC’s Targeted Ultra Poor programme for rural women in Bangladesh

Keywords

Overview

This article draws preliminary lessons from the experience of engaging village elites in support of a BRAC programme for ultra-poor women in rural Bangladesh. It describes the origins, aims, and operation of this programme, which provides comprehensive livelihood support and productive assets to the extreme poor. Based on field research in the rural north-west, the […]

Journal article

Community-managed rice banks: lessons from Laos

01/06/2007

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Rice banks are increasingly used in South-East Asia as a means of addressing seasonal food crises facing poor communities. Despite general agreement about the effectiveness of community-managed rice banks in improving food security, there has been almost no research into their effectiveness in reaching the poorest, or the prospects of sustainability linked to regular repayments […]

Journal article

The Capacity-building Paradox: using friendship to build capacity in the South

01/06/2007

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article proposes a theoretical framework, the Capacity-building Paradox, which defines individual relationship work as the basis for capacity building. It explains why capacity building has hitherto been largely unsuccessful. ‘Relationship work’ is central to the functions of practitioners. It consists of both ‘dependent work’ and ‘friendship work’, the latter synonymous with capacity building. To […]

Journal article

Development, racism, and discrimination in the Dominican Republic

01/11/2007

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

From an analysis of recent empirical research in the Dominican Republic, this article addresses the ways in which racism underpins elements of governance, and explores organisational and individual responses to racialised discrimination initiated by the state. The context is timely, given the steady rise in reported racist and violent attacks against people presumed to be […]