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The use of RAAKS for strengthening community-based organisations in Mali

01/11/2001

11 pages long

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The RAAKS (Rapid Appraisal of Agricultural Knowledge Systems) methodology, in combination with PRA tools, was used successfully in the CARE-Macina integrated rural development programme in Mali. The methodology enabled the agency team to produce relevant information concerning community-based organisations at village level, and thus highlighted some of the strengths and weaknesses of its efforts to […]

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Women, microfinance, and savings: lessons and proposals

01/11/2002

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Women, microfinance, and savings: lessons and proposals

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Microfinance–both credit and savings–has potential to improve the well-being of poor women in developing countries. This paper explores practical ways to achieve that potential. Based on lessons from informal savings mechanisms that women already use, the paper proposes two savings services designed to address the development issues that confront women. The proposals call for safe-deposit […]

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Viewpoints

01/11/2002

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Based on ‘On the pros and cons of volunteering abroad’, this paper discusses the pros and cons of the experience of volunteering abroad and attempts to address a void in the literature on what is required of such volunteers. Following a brief sketch of the volunteer abroad and the motives to for following such a […]

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Leading learning and change from the middle: reconceptualising strategy’s purpose, content, and measures

01/08/2002

15 pages long

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When implementing a transformational global vision and mission, three problems typically confront international NGOs: aligning different levels of planning and strategy; balancing global analysis and priorities against local realities; and identifying measures that both indicate progress and promote and encourage innovation. This article reports on the efforts of CARE International’s Latin America Regional Management Unit […]

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Bridging gaps: collaboration between research and operational organisations

01/08/2004

8 pages long

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There are large potential synergies from collaboration between a research and an operational organisation, such as an NGO, but explicit collaborations between them are not common. This Practical Note examines the institutional partnership between the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and CARE-USA, as a concrete illustration of the difficulties and potential benefits of such […]

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Democratic decentralisation and poverty reduction in Madhya Pradesh: searching for an institutional equilibrium

01/11/2004

8 pages long

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This paper reviews the lessons of democratic decentralisation in Madhya Pradesh (MP), a poor and semi-feudal Indian state that emerged as a leader and bold experimenter in institutional design in the 1990s. Despite inauspicious beginnings, political leadership in MP set out to use decentralisation as a lever to expand and improve basic service delivery. The […]

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Mitigating impacts of HIV/AIDS on rural livelihoods: NGO experiences in sub-Saharan Africa

01/04/2005

14 pages long

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HIV/AIDS is having profound impacts on livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa. These include the deaths of working-age adults, the diversion of resources to caring, and the rupture of traditional chains of knowledge transmission. NGOs are responding by providing assistance to communities affected by the epidemic in the fields of agriculture, skills training, and microfinance, as well […]

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Women, workers, and migrants in the globalised public health sector: debate at the 2004 International Labour Conference

01/08/2005

9 pages long

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Total remittances from migrant workers (US$80bn in 2003) significantly outstrip the total amount of overseas development assistance (US$55bn in the same year). Many conclude that such remittances make a positive contribution to development in the global South. However, the experiences of women health-care workers and migrants contradict easy and hopeful assumptions about the positive effects […]

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African scholars and African Studies

01/11/2006

12 pages long

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This article focuses on the development of African Studies, principally in post-1945 Europe and North America, and its counterpart in post-independence Africa. African Studies enjoys an increasingly close connection with bilateral and multilateral development co-operation, providing research and researchers (along with their own conceptual frameworks and concerns) to assist in defining and providing direction for […]

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Meeting the challenges to scaling up HIV/AIDS treatment in Africa

01/04/2007

12 pages long

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AIDS-related morbidity and mortality not only affects individuals and their families, but is rapidly undermining African states’ capacity to develop. Stemming the impacts of the pandemic has therefore become a major concern. This calls for meeting the needs for care and support of those affected, and increasing the access of persons living with HIV/AIDS to […]

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Journal article

The use of RAAKS for strengthening community-based organisations in Mali

01/11/2001

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The RAAKS (Rapid Appraisal of Agricultural Knowledge Systems) methodology, in combination with PRA tools, was used successfully in the CARE-Macina integrated rural development programme in Mali. The methodology enabled the agency team to produce relevant information concerning community-based organisations at village level, and thus highlighted some of the strengths and weaknesses of its efforts to […]

Journal article

Women, microfinance, and savings: lessons and proposals

01/11/2002

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women, microfinance, and savings: lessons and proposals

Keywords

Overview

Microfinance–both credit and savings–has potential to improve the well-being of poor women in developing countries. This paper explores practical ways to achieve that potential. Based on lessons from informal savings mechanisms that women already use, the paper proposes two savings services designed to address the development issues that confront women. The proposals call for safe-deposit […]

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Viewpoints

01/11/2002

11 pages long

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Overview

Based on ‘On the pros and cons of volunteering abroad’, this paper discusses the pros and cons of the experience of volunteering abroad and attempts to address a void in the literature on what is required of such volunteers. Following a brief sketch of the volunteer abroad and the motives to for following such a […]

Journal article

Leading learning and change from the middle: reconceptualising strategy’s purpose, content, and measures

01/08/2002

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

When implementing a transformational global vision and mission, three problems typically confront international NGOs: aligning different levels of planning and strategy; balancing global analysis and priorities against local realities; and identifying measures that both indicate progress and promote and encourage innovation. This article reports on the efforts of CARE International’s Latin America Regional Management Unit […]

Journal article

Bridging gaps: collaboration between research and operational organisations

01/08/2004

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

There are large potential synergies from collaboration between a research and an operational organisation, such as an NGO, but explicit collaborations between them are not common. This Practical Note examines the institutional partnership between the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and CARE-USA, as a concrete illustration of the difficulties and potential benefits of such […]

Journal article

Democratic decentralisation and poverty reduction in Madhya Pradesh: searching for an institutional equilibrium

01/11/2004

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This paper reviews the lessons of democratic decentralisation in Madhya Pradesh (MP), a poor and semi-feudal Indian state that emerged as a leader and bold experimenter in institutional design in the 1990s. Despite inauspicious beginnings, political leadership in MP set out to use decentralisation as a lever to expand and improve basic service delivery. The […]

Journal article

Mitigating impacts of HIV/AIDS on rural livelihoods: NGO experiences in sub-Saharan Africa

01/04/2005

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

HIV/AIDS is having profound impacts on livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa. These include the deaths of working-age adults, the diversion of resources to caring, and the rupture of traditional chains of knowledge transmission. NGOs are responding by providing assistance to communities affected by the epidemic in the fields of agriculture, skills training, and microfinance, as well […]

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Women, workers, and migrants in the globalised public health sector: debate at the 2004 International Labour Conference

01/08/2005

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Total remittances from migrant workers (US$80bn in 2003) significantly outstrip the total amount of overseas development assistance (US$55bn in the same year). Many conclude that such remittances make a positive contribution to development in the global South. However, the experiences of women health-care workers and migrants contradict easy and hopeful assumptions about the positive effects […]

Journal article

African scholars and African Studies

01/11/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on the development of African Studies, principally in post-1945 Europe and North America, and its counterpart in post-independence Africa. African Studies enjoys an increasingly close connection with bilateral and multilateral development co-operation, providing research and researchers (along with their own conceptual frameworks and concerns) to assist in defining and providing direction for […]

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Meeting the challenges to scaling up HIV/AIDS treatment in Africa

01/04/2007

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

AIDS-related morbidity and mortality not only affects individuals and their families, but is rapidly undermining African states’ capacity to develop. Stemming the impacts of the pandemic has therefore become a major concern. This calls for meeting the needs for care and support of those affected, and increasing the access of persons living with HIV/AIDS to […]

Showing 436 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

The use of RAAKS for strengthening community-based organisations in Mali

01/11/2001

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The RAAKS (Rapid Appraisal of Agricultural Knowledge Systems) methodology, in combination with PRA tools, was used successfully in the CARE-Macina integrated rural development programme in Mali. The methodology enabled the agency team to produce relevant information concerning community-based organisations at village level, and thus highlighted some of the strengths and weaknesses of its efforts to […]

Journal article

Women, microfinance, and savings: lessons and proposals

01/11/2002

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women, microfinance, and savings: lessons and proposals

Keywords

Overview

Microfinance–both credit and savings–has potential to improve the well-being of poor women in developing countries. This paper explores practical ways to achieve that potential. Based on lessons from informal savings mechanisms that women already use, the paper proposes two savings services designed to address the development issues that confront women. The proposals call for safe-deposit […]

Journal article

Viewpoints

01/11/2002

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Based on ‘On the pros and cons of volunteering abroad’, this paper discusses the pros and cons of the experience of volunteering abroad and attempts to address a void in the literature on what is required of such volunteers. Following a brief sketch of the volunteer abroad and the motives to for following such a […]

Journal article

Leading learning and change from the middle: reconceptualising strategy’s purpose, content, and measures

01/08/2002

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

When implementing a transformational global vision and mission, three problems typically confront international NGOs: aligning different levels of planning and strategy; balancing global analysis and priorities against local realities; and identifying measures that both indicate progress and promote and encourage innovation. This article reports on the efforts of CARE International’s Latin America Regional Management Unit […]

Journal article

Bridging gaps: collaboration between research and operational organisations

01/08/2004

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

There are large potential synergies from collaboration between a research and an operational organisation, such as an NGO, but explicit collaborations between them are not common. This Practical Note examines the institutional partnership between the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and CARE-USA, as a concrete illustration of the difficulties and potential benefits of such […]

Journal article

Democratic decentralisation and poverty reduction in Madhya Pradesh: searching for an institutional equilibrium

01/11/2004

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This paper reviews the lessons of democratic decentralisation in Madhya Pradesh (MP), a poor and semi-feudal Indian state that emerged as a leader and bold experimenter in institutional design in the 1990s. Despite inauspicious beginnings, political leadership in MP set out to use decentralisation as a lever to expand and improve basic service delivery. The […]

Journal article

Mitigating impacts of HIV/AIDS on rural livelihoods: NGO experiences in sub-Saharan Africa

01/04/2005

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

HIV/AIDS is having profound impacts on livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa. These include the deaths of working-age adults, the diversion of resources to caring, and the rupture of traditional chains of knowledge transmission. NGOs are responding by providing assistance to communities affected by the epidemic in the fields of agriculture, skills training, and microfinance, as well […]

Journal article

Women, workers, and migrants in the globalised public health sector: debate at the 2004 International Labour Conference

01/08/2005

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Total remittances from migrant workers (US$80bn in 2003) significantly outstrip the total amount of overseas development assistance (US$55bn in the same year). Many conclude that such remittances make a positive contribution to development in the global South. However, the experiences of women health-care workers and migrants contradict easy and hopeful assumptions about the positive effects […]

Journal article

African scholars and African Studies

01/11/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on the development of African Studies, principally in post-1945 Europe and North America, and its counterpart in post-independence Africa. African Studies enjoys an increasingly close connection with bilateral and multilateral development co-operation, providing research and researchers (along with their own conceptual frameworks and concerns) to assist in defining and providing direction for […]

Journal article

Meeting the challenges to scaling up HIV/AIDS treatment in Africa

01/04/2007

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

AIDS-related morbidity and mortality not only affects individuals and their families, but is rapidly undermining African states’ capacity to develop. Stemming the impacts of the pandemic has therefore become a major concern. This calls for meeting the needs for care and support of those affected, and increasing the access of persons living with HIV/AIDS to […]