SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries
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Linegalite des sexes et la révolution de linformation en Afrique
Linegalite des sexes et la révolution de linformation en Afrique
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Theoretical Perspective on Gender and Development
Jane L. Parpart, Jane L Connelly, Patricia Barriteau
Theoretical Perspective on Gender and Development
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Urban Public Transport and Sustainable Livelihoods for the Poor: A case study, Karachi, Pakistan
This book brings together the findings of a case study from Karachi, Pakistan. The aim of the project was to identify problems and possibilities in transport provision for poor urban settlements. The book takes the reader through the history of transport and the present situation in the city. A thor...
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NGOs Engaging with Business
NGOs Engaging with Business presents the findings of INTRAC's inquiry into the changing nature of relationships between NGOs and the Private Sector. By learning the lessons of such engagements, this two year research mainly funded by the Ford and Soros Foundations explores the potential for the two...
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Financial Management for Development
Financial Management for Development is written for non-financial staff and members of governing bodies of NGOs who need to understand financial systems and statements. It shows records and statements used within organisations and how these can be interpreted. The author uses a case study to explain...
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Development @ IT
This booklet provides an introduction to the concepts of appropriate and sustainable technologies, and how these technologies can improve people's lives.
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Development and Social Action
Throughout the world, civil society organisations (including NGOs) are playing an increasingly prominent role in promoting pro-poor policy change both in their own countries and internationally, whether through advocacy or through direct action and popular mobilisation. In the global re-alignment fo...
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Development with Women
Development practitioners and development thinkers and academics have tried to make women matter in development. However, women-focused approaches have often addressed women's needs outside the wider social contexts in which they live and have been as damaging to women's interests as earlier gender-...
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Energy Efficiency for Small and Medium Enterprises
A general misconception among industries, small or large, in developed as well as developing countries, is that taking care of the environment, by using clean technologies and by saving energy, is a cost-incurring activity. This conviction leads to a poor attention to environmental considerations an...