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Reflections on innovation, assessment, and social change: a SPARC case study

This article challenges the terms on which donor agencies evaluate development success, drawing on a particular case to make its point. It describes the resettlement of 60,000 people squatting along the railway tracks in Mumbai, a process planned and ca ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:45

Community-based rehabilitation and development: disabled children in Guyana

This article examines the challenge facing the rehabilitation of disabled persons, particularly children, as we approach the end of the twentieth century. The potential of a community-based model of rehabilitation is considered in the light of experience ...

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

Junto con los niños: street children in Mexico

A notable absentee from the ten-point action plan set out by the 1990 World Summit for Children was the issue of street children. Yet such children are a common sight in cities of the developing world, and live in some of the most extreme conditions of po ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:57

Where Women Have No Doctor

In the context of inequity which makes achieving `health for all' extremely difficult, Where Women Have No Doctor attempts to give access to health information to those who lack it. The authors applaud the book, and stress that there is great need for thi ...

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

Talking of gender: words and meanings in development organisations

This article reflects on the vocabulary commonly used within development organisations to communicate about ‘gender and development’. It argues that the relevant terminology, though frequently used, remains problematic. Some terms are almost entirely abse ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:06

Engendering organisational practice in NGOs: the case of Utthan

In the late 1970s, feminist social scientists began to challenge some of the assumptions underlying the dominant paradigms on organisations, arguing that they reflect and are structured by the values articulated within the larger institutional arenas in w ...

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

Development Methods and Approaches: Critical Reflections