The expansion of the international donor community clearly challenges the current "consensus" of a new "harmonised" aid architecture, ...

This remarkable and timely ethnography explores how fishing communities living on the fringe of the South China Sea in central Vietnam interact with state ...

Government policy since independence has by and large disregarded Sudan's multi-religious character through continuous Islamisation and Arabisation processes ...

Local democracy and the involvement of local communities in the provision of social services are central issues in the local government reforms that are ...

South Africa's return to the international community is fraught with ambiguities and contradictions. The gap between hopes and outcomes, between popular ...

Aiming to provide universal access to basic health services and empower communities to take charge of their own health, the Ethiopian government has during ...

Review of Matantala Rural Integrated Enterprise and the Community Development with Traditional Lead

Dos Justicias: Coordinación interlegal e intercultural en Guatemala (Two Justices: Interlegal and Intercultural Coordination in Guatemala) is the ...

A new Land Act introduced in Angola in 2004 demonstrates a genuine interest in the protection of the customary land rights of rural communities and underlines ...

The humanitarian situation in Afghanistan has rapidly deteriorated over the last months, as the conflict between the Taliban and the international community ...

Integrating anti-corruption measures into sector work – known as mainstreaming – receives increased attention from the development community. ...

The development community is striving to achieve results and value for money with its investments in health around the world. Yet, donors often work ...

Wives and Traders: Women's Careers in Ghanaian Canoe Fisheries Ragnhild Overå Maritime Anthropologi

What opportunities do virtual museums create for dialog between diverse communities? How can virtual museums contribute to a development paradigm that moves beyond enduring conceptions of aid as a one-way transaction? How can digital media positively augment these processes?

A major financial problem in many municipalities in South Africa is inadequate collection of revenues, mainly due to widespread non-payment. However, huge variations in compliance exist both within (poor) communities and between communities that have quite similar socio-economic characteristics.

The aim of this group is to create a multi-disciplinary, multi-method Bergen-based research community focused on the study of natural resources, with ...

Corporate community development projects typically do not fail due to incompetence. They fail because promoting development is not their underlying objective. Making money is.

Visual anthropologist Carlos Y. Flores talks about "collaborative video and shared anthropology", showing clips from "K'ixba'l" (Shame, Guatemala, 2010), his latest film from Guatemala.

Wildlife crime is big business — by some estimates it is the fourth largest source of illegal trade after drugs, counterfeit goods and human trafficking. ...

SADC has a poor record in advancing peace and security in Southern Africa. Many identify poor policy frameworks and weak technical capacities as ...