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The Ethical Trading Initiative: 10th Anniversary Conference

This article reports on the tenth anniversary conference of the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI), drawing attention to the irony that just as progress is being made on the situation of home workers (among the least protected of all working people) the t ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:54

Gender lost and gender found: BRAC's GQAL Programme

This article describes and analyses the Gender Quality Action-Learning (GQAL) Programme of BRAC, a large rural development NGO in Bangladesh. This works with men and women field-staff and managers in a process of issue-analysis, action planning, and imple ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:59

Journey towards development: impact of local NGOs on women in the Char lands

Both national and international policy-making institutions have acknowledged the contribution of NGOs in alleviating poverty, through empowering the poor and continuing to support their endeavours. In Bangladesh NGOs are working at national and local leve ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:08

We Are The Original People: The Story of a Development Project in an Adivasi (Tribal) Village in South Gujarat, India

Author:  Clarke, Marieke Issue:  Volume 3, Num ...

Book review - admin - 2009-12-17 12:44

Facilitating the entry of communities in the herbal medicine sector: GMCL in India

The medicinal plant sector is on the increase in many developing countries. Despite this, the existing supply chain is unable to improve the livelihoods of the gatherers. This article considers Gram Mooligai Company Limited (GMCL), the first community-b ...

Abstract - dwardle - 2011-06-27 13:26

The role of religious values and beliefs in charitable and development organisations in Karachi and Sindh, Pakistan

‘Faith-based organisations’ (FBOs) are gaining increasing attention within development circles – amongst practitioners, funders, and policymakers as well as academics. While some discussion has taken place over the meaning of the term ...

Abstract - dwardle - 2012-07-12 13:49

Re-defining community - state partnership in natural resource management: a case from India

This article examines the role of state in the Joint Forest Management (JFM) programme in the northern province of Haryana in India. In the past two decades, significant developments pertaining to institutional reforms in promoting community - state partn ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:44

Women targeted and women negated: an aspect of the environmental movement in Bangladesh

In Bangladesh, government organisations and non-governmental organisations are implementing programmes and energy-saving projects in an effort to save the environment. This article examines such programmes in the specific area of improved stove technology ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:56

A participatory approach to evaluating the impact of NGOs on development in Nepal

This paper describes a technique used to evaluate an NGO support and development project in Nepal. The project has been operating since 2000 or before in five Districts of Nepal and has the primary objective of assisting NGOs to work more closely with t ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02

Institutional evolution and the impact of training and communication in Joint Forest Management

In 1999, with a view to strengthening the JFM arrangement, the Gujarat State Forest Department, in collaboration with the Aga Khan Foundation, initiated a nodal agency called the JFM cell. Its mandate is to assist in strengthening and expanding JFM in Guj ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:09