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Gender, development, and training: Raising awareness in the planning process

01/11/1991

11 pages long

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Gender, development, and training: Raising awareness in the planning process

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Several decades of development experience have yielded a wealth of findings about the key assumptions, procedures, and practices by which women have been marginalised in development planning. The value of these insights lies not only in highlighting flawed planning procedures, but also in helping to formulate alternative frameworks for thinking about development. This article discusses […]

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Breaking the cycle of violence: doing development in situations of conflict

01/11/1991

8 pages long

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During the 1980s, armed conflict devastated an increasing number of the world’s poorest countries. Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) engaged in relief and development were hard-pressed to determine their most effective response to situations where normal development became meaningless, and yet short-term relief programmes failed to deal with ‘permanent emergencies. This article describes the nature of these […]

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Calculating food-aid cost-effectiveness: Evidence from Ethiopia

01/11/1991

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These Notes are based on research carried out as part of a World Bank/World Food Programme study into food aid in Sub-Saharan Africa. The authors use economic analyses to establish a framework for considering the cost-effectiveness of food aid compared to financial aid, and they apply this framework to the Wollaita food aid project. Food […]

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The psychosocial effects of conflict in the third world

01/11/1991

15 pages long

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In current armed conflicts around the world, over 90 per cent of casualties are civilians. This article reviews medical and anthropological evidence of the psychosocial effects of extreme experiences such as torture, mutilation, rape, and the violent displacement of communities. The consequences for women and children are considered in particular. The author argues that the […]

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Editorial

01/11/1991

2 pages long

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This article does not have a description. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

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Editorial

01/06/1991

2 pages long

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This article does not have a description. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

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The impact of food aid on cereal and livestock prices in Red Sea Province, The Sudan: 1980-1989

01/05/1991

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Drought-induced inflation of cereal prices and the consequent turning of the terms of trade against livestock upset existing exchange entitlements and contributed to higher than normal mortality rates among the rural Beja populations in Red Sea Province in the early to mid-1980s. The Beja are agropastoralists who raise goats and sheep, and sow some sorghum. […]

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Panning for salt in Benin and Brittany

01/05/1991

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The author describes the work of PIRATTES, a project jointly directed by the Co-operative of Salt Producers in Guande (France), the Scientific And Technological Centre (Benin), and the French Volunteer Association (AFVP). The project, linking communities involved in salt-production in the North and the South, introduced new processes to Benin to avoid the major ecological […]

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Social action group strategies in the Indian sub-continent

01/05/1991

13 pages long

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The purpose of this paper is to review the experience of social action groups (SAGs) in the Indian sub-continent over the past fifteen years or so. There are tensions between their stated objectives and their actual practice, and conflicts arising from their role in the political sphere. The author considers the practical problems and some […]

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Grassroots support organisations in Peru

01/05/1991

12 pages long

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Private developmental organisations have emerged rapidly and forcefully in Peru, amid a turbulent national context of change and acute social and economic instability over the last two decades. While no official statistics exist on the number of such organisations (there is no single entity that oversees or registers their activity), independent studies and surveys indicate […]

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