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- Over the border and under the radar: can illegal migrants be active citizens?
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Active citizens can become a powerful driver of development by holding to popular account those who traditionally hold decision-making power at the local and national levels. Active citizenship draws from a long history of understanding the importance o ...
Abstract - sally - 2009-11-19 12:47
- Mangrove planting in Vietnam
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In 1989, Save the Children Fund (UK) began an experimental project to plant mangroves along a coastal estuary in the Thach Ha district of Ha Tinh province in northern central Vietnam. It was designed and managed by the district forestry and water manageme ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:54
- Another invasion: lessons from the international support to East Timorese NGOs
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This article seeks to contribute to the debate on collaboration between national and international NGOs. It argues that it is vital for the development of stable, independent, and viable civil societies that the international NGOs promote a bottom-up appr ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:10
- Food-price hikes and the situation of farm workers in the Philippines
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Agricultural wage labourers in the Philippines were especially vulnerable to the food-price increases of 2007–08. Their wages do not cover the costs of food, clothing, and shelter, much less healthcare and their children's education. Food-price in ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-16 10:19
- Accountability and effectiveness of NGOs: adapting business tools successfully
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The central argument of this paper is that many of the tools developed to strengthen for-profit businesses can be applied to NGOs to make them more effective and accountable. The paper addresses a gap in the development literature by defining and describi ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02
- Denial and Distress: Gender, Poverty and Human Rights in Asia
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Author: Murthy, Ranjani K and Lakshmi Sankaran Publisher: London: Zed Books, 2 ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:49
- Beating storms and droughts: the Erdenedalai weather network in the Mongolian Gobi
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Although herders in Mongolia are embracing modernity, their livelihoods remain largely dependent on the weather and resulting grassland conditions. In recent years, natural resource degradation has made livestock production more risky. Severe weather ev ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-02-27 18:08
- Mediators or partners? Practitioner perspectives on partnership
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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 literat ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:42
- Stakeholders' perceptions within a farming systems aid project:
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Communication among stakeholders within international aid projects has long been recognised as problematic. The authors interviewed five different stakeholders on a Chinese-Australian project to explore whether (a) stakeholders have exclusive worldviews; ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:06
- Matching goods and people: aid and human security after the 2004 tsunami
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This article asks why, despite an abundance of aid materials and the good intentions of various relief agencies, tsunami-relief efforts in Thailand after the Great Sumatra Earthquake of 2004 resulted in complaints and skewed aid distribution. Beginning ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2010-02-25 16:02
