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Residents' associations and information communication technologies: a suggested approach to international action-research

The North-South disparity in access to new information communication technologies is well known, but there is a need now to get beyond simply measuring and documenting that gap, and develop more sensitive indicators on how such technologies might be, and ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:07

Organisational Learning: a borrowed toolbox?

Learning organisations and their focus on fundamental change have been seen as having considerable potential for making organisations more gender equitable and improving their capacity to undertake development or human rights work that is not gender-biase ...

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

Trade unions and NGOs: the need for cooperation

The challenges posed by economic globalisation make it imperative that civil society organisations break down the barriers that have traditionally divided them, in order to ensure that the rights of those who are marginalised or vulnerable are kept firmly ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:10

Citizens’ media and communication

Citizens’ media and communication are still poorly understood in the mainstream of development policy and practice – and are prone to simplistic forms of implementation, because of the lack of a coherent grasp of the social, cultural, and po ...

Abstract - anna - 2009-10-01 17:20

States, Scarcity and Civil Strife in the Developing World

Author:  Kahl, Colin H. Publisher:  Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University P ...

Book review - admin - 2009-12-07 13:20

Operational Security Management in Violent Environments

Author:  Van Brabrant, Koenraad Publisher:  London: Overseas Development Instit ...

Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:51

NGOs, States and Donors: Too Close for Comfort?

Author:  Hulme, David and Michael Edwards Issue:  ...

Book review - admin - 2009-12-07 18:16

The Search for Empowerment: Social Capital as Idea and Practice at the World Bank

Author:  Bebbington, Anthony, Michael Woolcock, Scott E. Guggenheim, and Elizabeth A.Olson (eds.) Publisher:  ...

Book review - admin - 2009-12-07 09:20

Working effectively with non-state actors to deliver education in fragile states

This viewpoint uses evaluation reports from Nepal, Afghanistan, and Yemen in order to learn lessons about how donors and governments can work more effectively with non-state actors to deliver education in fragile states. The evaluation framework draws o ...

Abstract - dwardle - 2010-06-23 15:59

A framework for understanding civil society in action

The past 30 years have seen a proliferation in the use of the phrase ‘civil society' linked to international aid, resulting in the creation of official donor ‘civil society departments’. At the same time there has been growing understa ...

Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-16 12:06