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Could cognitive theory enhance development practice?

01/06/2008

6 pages long

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Development brings about changes in people’s lives and their ways of understanding and dealing with their world. It is possible to distinguish between two types of development intervention: (a) improvements in the external situation, chiefly through the provision of public goods; and (b) strengthening people’s inner capacities, an endeavour which depends on cognitive processes. The […]

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Mediators or partners? Practitioner perspectives on partnership

01/11/2008

11 pages long

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Partnership has become a key word in the jargon of international development. This article presents the results of research into the perspectives of Cambodian and Filipino NGO workers on their funding relationships. Largely confirming the negative literature about partnership, practitioners generally expressed a view that their relationships with funders are not consistent with the rhetoric […]

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Trade liberalisation, rural poverty, and the environment: global discussions and local cases

01/11/2008

11 pages long

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Much has been researched and said about the impacts of international trade liberalisation at the country level; but little is known about its social and environmental local-level impacts. Since national averages can mask the existence of winners and losers, national-level studies may be a poor guide to addressing the plight of the rural poor and […]

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What could Development Studies be?

01/11/2008

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Over the past 10-15 years there has been an expansion of interest in the subject of Development Studies (DS). There are now significantly more taught courses focused on DS, and research funds are booming. However, over the same period, DS has faced sustained critiques about its essential nature. This has led us to ask: what […]

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Making poverty mapping and monitoring participatory

01/08/2008

11 pages long

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The real experts on poverty are poor people, yet the incidence and trends in poverty are usually measured by the use of official economic indicators assumed by researchers to be relevant. Poor householders themselves distinguish between subsistence and cash income. In a ‘self-assessed poverty’ exercise, poor villagers in rural China specified and weighted key poverty […]

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No more adoption rates! Looking for empowerment in agricultural development programmes

01/08/2008

14 pages long

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The debate on empowerment encompasses an older discourse about the intrinsic value of empowerment, and a newer discourse about the instrumental benefits of empowerment; the concept of agency is useful in understanding this distinction. In agricultural development, empowerment efforts are often instrumentalist, viewed as an advanced form of participation that will improve project effectiveness, with […]

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Impact assessment of farmer institutional development and agricultural change: Soroti district, Uganda

01/08/2008

17 pages long

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This article is based on participatory development research conducted in Soroti district of Uganda with the aim of assessing the impact of agricultural development among poor farmers. The central argument is that a combination of farmer empowerment and innovation through experiential learning in farmer field school (FFS) groups, changes in the opportunity structure through transformation […]

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Participatory risk assessment: a new approach for safer food in vulnerable African communities

01/08/2008

7 pages long

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Participatory risk assessment: a new approach for safer food in vulnerable African communities

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Women play the major role in food supply in developing countries, but too often their ability to feed their families properly is compromised; the result is high levels of food-borne disease and consequent limited access to higher-value markets. We argue that risk-based approaches – current best practice for managing food safety in developed countries – […]

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Learning from experience in urban programming: the case of the SHAHAR project in Bangladesh

01/03/2009

13 pages long

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The article offers a reflective analysis of various problems encountered and lessons learned in implementing a programme to improve the livelihood security of the urban poor in secondary cities of Bangladesh. The study is based on the author’s involvement as an external action-research partner, and a review of relevant secondary literature. A number of key […]

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More money, new household cultural dynamics: women in micro-finance in Ghana

01/03/2009

13 pages long

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More money, new household cultural dynamics: women in micro-finance in Ghana

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This article reports on research into the impacts of micro-finance on gender roles, the extent to which socio-cultural factors influence these changes, and how such changes affect the well-being of rural Bogoso households in the Wassa West District of Ghana. Findings indicated that micro-finance has changed men’s and women’s control over decisions and resource allocations, […]

Showing 461 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Could cognitive theory enhance development practice?

01/06/2008

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Development brings about changes in people’s lives and their ways of understanding and dealing with their world. It is possible to distinguish between two types of development intervention: (a) improvements in the external situation, chiefly through the provision of public goods; and (b) strengthening people’s inner capacities, an endeavour which depends on cognitive processes. The […]

Journal article

Mediators or partners? Practitioner perspectives on partnership

01/11/2008

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Partnership has become a key word in the jargon of international development. This article presents the results of research into the perspectives of Cambodian and Filipino NGO workers on their funding relationships. Largely confirming the negative literature about partnership, practitioners generally expressed a view that their relationships with funders are not consistent with the rhetoric […]

Journal article

Trade liberalisation, rural poverty, and the environment: global discussions and local cases

01/11/2008

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Much has been researched and said about the impacts of international trade liberalisation at the country level; but little is known about its social and environmental local-level impacts. Since national averages can mask the existence of winners and losers, national-level studies may be a poor guide to addressing the plight of the rural poor and […]

Journal article

What could Development Studies be?

01/11/2008

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Over the past 10-15 years there has been an expansion of interest in the subject of Development Studies (DS). There are now significantly more taught courses focused on DS, and research funds are booming. However, over the same period, DS has faced sustained critiques about its essential nature. This has led us to ask: what […]

Journal article

Making poverty mapping and monitoring participatory

01/08/2008

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The real experts on poverty are poor people, yet the incidence and trends in poverty are usually measured by the use of official economic indicators assumed by researchers to be relevant. Poor householders themselves distinguish between subsistence and cash income. In a ‘self-assessed poverty’ exercise, poor villagers in rural China specified and weighted key poverty […]

Journal article

No more adoption rates! Looking for empowerment in agricultural development programmes

01/08/2008

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The debate on empowerment encompasses an older discourse about the intrinsic value of empowerment, and a newer discourse about the instrumental benefits of empowerment; the concept of agency is useful in understanding this distinction. In agricultural development, empowerment efforts are often instrumentalist, viewed as an advanced form of participation that will improve project effectiveness, with […]

Journal article

Impact assessment of farmer institutional development and agricultural change: Soroti district, Uganda

01/08/2008

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article is based on participatory development research conducted in Soroti district of Uganda with the aim of assessing the impact of agricultural development among poor farmers. The central argument is that a combination of farmer empowerment and innovation through experiential learning in farmer field school (FFS) groups, changes in the opportunity structure through transformation […]

Journal article

Participatory risk assessment: a new approach for safer food in vulnerable African communities

01/08/2008

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Participatory risk assessment: a new approach for safer food in vulnerable African communities

Keywords

Overview

Women play the major role in food supply in developing countries, but too often their ability to feed their families properly is compromised; the result is high levels of food-borne disease and consequent limited access to higher-value markets. We argue that risk-based approaches – current best practice for managing food safety in developed countries – […]

Journal article

Learning from experience in urban programming: the case of the SHAHAR project in Bangladesh

01/03/2009

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The article offers a reflective analysis of various problems encountered and lessons learned in implementing a programme to improve the livelihood security of the urban poor in secondary cities of Bangladesh. The study is based on the author’s involvement as an external action-research partner, and a review of relevant secondary literature. A number of key […]

Journal article

More money, new household cultural dynamics: women in micro-finance in Ghana

01/03/2009

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

More money, new household cultural dynamics: women in micro-finance in Ghana

Keywords

Overview

This article reports on research into the impacts of micro-finance on gender roles, the extent to which socio-cultural factors influence these changes, and how such changes affect the well-being of rural Bogoso households in the Wassa West District of Ghana. Findings indicated that micro-finance has changed men’s and women’s control over decisions and resource allocations, […]

Showing 461 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Could cognitive theory enhance development practice?

01/06/2008

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Development brings about changes in people’s lives and their ways of understanding and dealing with their world. It is possible to distinguish between two types of development intervention: (a) improvements in the external situation, chiefly through the provision of public goods; and (b) strengthening people’s inner capacities, an endeavour which depends on cognitive processes. The […]

Journal article

Mediators or partners? Practitioner perspectives on partnership

01/11/2008

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Partnership has become a key word in the jargon of international development. This article presents the results of research into the perspectives of Cambodian and Filipino NGO workers on their funding relationships. Largely confirming the negative literature about partnership, practitioners generally expressed a view that their relationships with funders are not consistent with the rhetoric […]

Journal article

Trade liberalisation, rural poverty, and the environment: global discussions and local cases

01/11/2008

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Much has been researched and said about the impacts of international trade liberalisation at the country level; but little is known about its social and environmental local-level impacts. Since national averages can mask the existence of winners and losers, national-level studies may be a poor guide to addressing the plight of the rural poor and […]

Journal article

What could Development Studies be?

01/11/2008

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Over the past 10-15 years there has been an expansion of interest in the subject of Development Studies (DS). There are now significantly more taught courses focused on DS, and research funds are booming. However, over the same period, DS has faced sustained critiques about its essential nature. This has led us to ask: what […]

Journal article

Making poverty mapping and monitoring participatory

01/08/2008

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The real experts on poverty are poor people, yet the incidence and trends in poverty are usually measured by the use of official economic indicators assumed by researchers to be relevant. Poor householders themselves distinguish between subsistence and cash income. In a ‘self-assessed poverty’ exercise, poor villagers in rural China specified and weighted key poverty […]

Journal article

No more adoption rates! Looking for empowerment in agricultural development programmes

01/08/2008

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The debate on empowerment encompasses an older discourse about the intrinsic value of empowerment, and a newer discourse about the instrumental benefits of empowerment; the concept of agency is useful in understanding this distinction. In agricultural development, empowerment efforts are often instrumentalist, viewed as an advanced form of participation that will improve project effectiveness, with […]

Journal article

Impact assessment of farmer institutional development and agricultural change: Soroti district, Uganda

01/08/2008

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article is based on participatory development research conducted in Soroti district of Uganda with the aim of assessing the impact of agricultural development among poor farmers. The central argument is that a combination of farmer empowerment and innovation through experiential learning in farmer field school (FFS) groups, changes in the opportunity structure through transformation […]

Journal article

Participatory risk assessment: a new approach for safer food in vulnerable African communities

01/08/2008

7 pages long

Free access through journal website

Participatory risk assessment: a new approach for safer food in vulnerable African communities

Keywords

Overview

Women play the major role in food supply in developing countries, but too often their ability to feed their families properly is compromised; the result is high levels of food-borne disease and consequent limited access to higher-value markets. We argue that risk-based approaches – current best practice for managing food safety in developed countries – […]

Journal article

Learning from experience in urban programming: the case of the SHAHAR project in Bangladesh

01/03/2009

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The article offers a reflective analysis of various problems encountered and lessons learned in implementing a programme to improve the livelihood security of the urban poor in secondary cities of Bangladesh. The study is based on the author’s involvement as an external action-research partner, and a review of relevant secondary literature. A number of key […]

Journal article

More money, new household cultural dynamics: women in micro-finance in Ghana

01/03/2009

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

More money, new household cultural dynamics: women in micro-finance in Ghana

Keywords

Overview

This article reports on research into the impacts of micro-finance on gender roles, the extent to which socio-cultural factors influence these changes, and how such changes affect the well-being of rural Bogoso households in the Wassa West District of Ghana. Findings indicated that micro-finance has changed men’s and women’s control over decisions and resource allocations, […]