This is the third in a series of six qualitative studies monitoring and evaluating Mozambique’s Poverty Reduction Strategy, PARPA. Many communities ...

The objective of this study is to assess whether living in a community that has a more democratic decision making system or in a society with a higher ...

Why has the electoral process in the newly democratised African states had such limited impacts? How can the continued one-party dominance on the continent ...

This paper discusses the current food security crisis in the pastoral areas of the Horn of Africa. It tries to explain the recurrent famines with reference ...

This paper provides a synthesis of the current literature on the potential of marine protected areas (MPAs) as a management tool to limit the ecosystem ...

The 'Mine Action for Peace' programme Afghanistan. Workshop report Kabul, 29 April 2004 Arne Strand

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.

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.

The conference on the Sri Lankan situation and the role of the international community was arranged by CMI, in cooperation with the All Parties Solidarity ...

Background: Cash Transfer (CT) schemes have become popular poverty reducing measures in many low and middle-income countries. Research indicates that ...

In a war-torn corner of DRC, in Ituri, they have shown that income-generating activities, reconstruction of infrastructure, local radio stations etc., are means to create peace in the midst of violence.

Professor Kais M. Firro holds the opening lecture. Minority politics, minority community dynamics, and relations between members of majority and minority religious communities in the Middle East from a historical and a contemporary perspective.

Land in Meghalaya, India, was traditionally agricultural land, owned by the community. With increasing privatization and rising commercial value of land ...

This article analyzes the factors associated with vulnerability of the Ashaninka, the most populous indigenous Peruvian Amazonian people, to tuberculosis ...

Fashions come and go in the development community. When a policy ideabecomes popular, some governments implement a cosmetic variant of thepolicy. What ...

The international community is devoting increasing attention to social security issues in developing countries as part of its preoccupation with poverty ...

A major financial problem in many municipalities in South Africa is the inadequate collection of service charges due to widespread non-payment. The prevailing ...

This article discusses the current framework for development research in Norway, which today is entirely dependent on the development assistance budget. ...

For decades the international donor community has turned a blind eye to corruption in developing countries. This attitude appears to have changed. There ...