Development studies
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Gender and Water Sanitation and Hygiene
At birth and death, and each day in between, individual human need for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) is near constant. While WASH is intensely personal, it is also about power, inequality, development and social justice. Inadequate WASH provision both results from and causes continuing povert...
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Women’s Economic Empowerment
Economic opportunities for women in developing and emerging economies can mean greater empowerment in market systems, enhanced gender equality within the household and benefits to children’s well-being. At the same time, when women are able to participate more equitably in the economic realm, there...
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Counterrevolution
The far right is on the rise. The rhetoric of anger and resentment emanating from personalities like Donald Trump, Marine Le Pen, Rodrigo Duterte and Viktor Orban is captivating and mobilizing large numbers of people. In an increasing number of countries, the extreme right has already captured the g...
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Práctica del Desarrollo Participativo
Desde los grupos de pueblos originarios, profesores que ejercen la docencia y trabajadores(as) de comunidades locales e internacionales surge el deseo de construir comunidades. Práctica del Desarrollo Participativo ofrece una base teórica y aplicada para repensar la práctica del desarrollo, que está...
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Selling Daylight
What motivates companies to invest giant sums of money? What connects two billion people without dependable electricity with driverless vehicles, virtual reality tech, and the ‘Internet of Things’? Absolutely enormous commercial potential. Energy services in the developing world represent a $100...
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Working with Men for Gender Equality
Working with men on gender equality is essential to challenge patriarchal constraints that men experience in their own lives. Authors here share experience of working with men to question traditional ideas about masculinity. Men rejecting these norms are not only happier, but are also critical allie...
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Politics Rules
Whether we like it or not, we are subject to politics wherever we go and in whatever we are doing. Development is always and everywhere political, and frequently occurs with the interests of the powerful at the forefront. Can we hope to better understand the politics that shapes and controls our liv...
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Scaling-up Community-Led Total Sanitation
Scaling-up Community Led Total Sanitation starts with detailed instructions on how to facilitate CLTS in a village or cluster of villages. It then explores how to scale up and institutionalize CLTS at a regional and national level by gaining the commitment of leaders within government ministries. Th...
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Attributing Development Impact
James Copestake, Marlies Morsink, Fiona Remnant
Substantiating cause and effect is one of the great conundrums for those aiming to have a social impact, be they an NGO, social impact investment fund, or multinational corporation. All face the same quandary: how do you know whether, or how, you contributed to an observed social change? A wide rang...
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Perspectives énergétiques des populations pauvres 2018
L’accès à l’énergie pour tous a été consacré dans le Programme de développement durable à l’horizon 2030 (ODD7) et l’Accord de Paris sur le changement climatique ; les bienfaits qu’il libère du point de vue du bien-être et du développement sont désormais largement reconnus. Néanmoins, il subsiste un...