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- Mitigating the impact of HIV and AIDS on rural livelihoods: building on Southern African experiences to chart a way forward
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A variety of interventions to mitigate the increasing impact of the HIV and AIDS epidemic on smallholder agricultural production and food security are currently implemented in sub-Saharan Africa. However, documentation and dissemination of such interven ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:34
- Generating income for social change: a Mexican experiment in solidarity
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The paper presents a brief account of a development programme in southern Mexico. DESMI AC, a Mexican NGO based in the southern state of Chiapas, provides and encourages economic and educational assistance to groups of marginalised indigenous Indians, in ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:55
- Matching services with local preferences: managing primary education services in a rural district of India
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In India, the pressing concern in education is with bringing in at least 32 million children estimated to be out of school, to meet the goal of Universal Elementary Education. Support for decentralisation of public services is widespread because of the eq ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:59
- Empowering families as an alternative to foster care for street children in Brazil
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Although the emphasis in current thinking about work with street children has changed from aid-dependency towards youth protagonism, many organisations ignore the role of the children’s families in their interventions. In so doing, they reproduce obsolete ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:07
- The state of the art in citizens’ communication for social change in Spain
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In spite of its long history on different countries, ‘citizens communication for social change’ is little known in Spanish academic and social institutions, so few communication professionals know how to address and undertake in-depth planni ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-01 13:35
- Health Policy: An Introduction to Process and Power
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Author: Walt, Gill Issue: Volume 5, Number 4 ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-09 19:47
- The role of self-help groups in empowering disabled women: a case study in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
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The literature on self-help groups (SHGs) shows a mixed record on empowering women both economically and socially, while the literature on Women with Disabilities (WWDs) highlights the problems of isolation that exacerbate their disadvantages. This arti ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2010-11-07 19:57
- Pro-poor? Class, gender, power, and authority in faith-based education in Maharashtra, India
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Religious and secular ideologies are hotly debated within Indian educational circles, partly in response to neo-liberal trends in educational provision, which have encouraged non-state providers, including religious organisations, to increase their invo ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-07-12 13:56
- Working with streetchildren
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In September 1990 we became involved with the Centre for the Defence of the Child (CDM) in Brazil, with a view to participating in a survey into the lives of streetchildren that was being conducted by the group. The CDM is a branch of its parent organisat ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:53
- Getting down to ground level: a community perspective on social development
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In 1994, the UN Volunteers programme (UNV) and UN Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) collaborated on a research project, Volunteer Contributions to Social Integration at the Grassroots: the Urban or `Pavement Dimension'. The author describ ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:56
