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- Gendered Poverty and Well-Being
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Author: Razavi, Shahra (ed.) Publisher: Oxford: Blackwell, 2000, ISBN: 0 63121 ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-22 08:39
- Women's Lifeworlds - Women's narratives on shaping their realities
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Author: Sizoo, Edith Issue: Volume 8, Number ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-07 13:47
- Women and the Environment: A Reader
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Author: Sontheimer, Sally (ed.) Issue: Volume ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-17 13:14
- Handle with care: engaging with faith-based organisations in development
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Religious faith has always had an intense but uneasy relationship with development. Donors are currently seeking greater engagement with faith-based organisations (FBOs). This positive shift needs careful consideration. Faith can be a powerful – b ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-06-21 14:29
- Listening to Iraqi refugee children in Jordan, but then what? Exploring the impact of participatory research with children
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Following the American-led invasion of Iraq, thousands of Iraqis fled to Jordan and the international donor community initiated humanitarian assistance. Through a unique partnership, three organisations conducted participatory research with Iraqi childr ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-06-13 16:07
- Participatory risk assessment: a new approach for safer food in vulnerable African communities
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Women play the major role in food supply in developing countries, but too often their ability to feed their families properly is compromised; the result is high levels of food-borne disease and consequent limited access to higher-value markets. We argue t ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:35
- Memory, suffering, survival tactics, and healing among Jopadhola women in post-war Uganda
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This ethnographic case study addresses the question of how women in Jopadhola patriarchal society in Eastern Uganda remember three decades of civil war and violence and survived its aftermath. When the war ended, little changed for these women, who are ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:34
- Microfinance evangelism, `destitute women', and the hard selling of a new anti-poverty formula
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This article challenges the recent uncritical enthusiasm for the potential of micro-finance institutions to reduce poverty. It is argued that, although understanding about how to design anti-poverty financial intermediation has improved, the current campa ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:56
- Alternative financial institutions? Sustainability, development, social reproduction, and gender analysis
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Many NGO financial institutions and co-operatives are, arguably, incorporating the rules and norms of banking which, as `alternative' institutions, they sought to avoid. Here, the author uses CARUNA (the National Savings and Credit Co-operative `Caja Rura ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:01
- The new urban poor: the Tobas indians
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The author describes the movement of the Tobas indians from their nomadic, rural lifestyle in northern Argentina (due mainly to industrial deforestation) to Rosario, a city of around 1 million inhabitants. He highlights the difficulties the Tobas face in ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:05
