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This book looks at co-operation for development: between North, South, and East; women's organizations and funding agencies; development practitioners, academics, and civil society; politicians and economists; and men and women. The book explores how essential it is for Northern funding agencies to foster multiculturalism and gender equality.

An affectionately written portrait of the mineral-rich but little known West African state that voted for independence from France in 1958.

What Works for Africa's Poorest Children? From Measurement to Action provides cutting edge examples on how we can identify child poverty and deprivation, analyses innovative ultra-poor child sensitive programmes, and provides new public financing and governance rights suggestions for child poverty elimination.

A journey through the development of modern Salsa music. Evocative use of song lyrics bring colour and passion to this lively profile of Latin dance music.

People and Change is about improving the impact of capacity building. Using a mixture of case studies, illustrations from experiences and articles based on reflective practice, People and Change provides practitioners with ideas, suggestions and challenges to improve the effectiveness of the capacity building interventions.

Waste pickers in Dhaka make their living by selling recyclable items collected from dumped waste. Most are children living on the streets or in slums where they have little access to infrastructure, a low status in society and an uncertain future. This book is based on a period of fieldwork in Dhaka which explored their livelihoods using the DFID Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA). It presents much of the livelihood information gathered, and discusses the effectiveness of the SLA in this urban context. The book also raises a number of methodological issues relating to research with mostly illiterate, underprivileged children.

Capacity Building Framework draws on INTRAC's experience in capacity building consultancy and programme work and on its successful international training in capacity building. It adopts a step-by-step approach and introduces a new values-based model to enable decision makers to plan capacity-building interventions in a variety of contexts.

Measuring the Process is a unique attempt to set out guidelines for evaluating social development processes. It is intended primarily as a practical guide for undertaking the evaluation of social development projects and combines a theoretical overview of the concepts involved, with insights into the planning and implementation of evaluation.

It is increasingly clear that environmental problems cannot be solved without full consideration of the process of economic development, the results of which are so often destructive rather than sustainable. This book examines these issues and gives examples of how poor people are responding to safeguard and improve the environment.

This volume brings together research on women in South Africa. What emerges is a sharp sense of transition and crisis and a pressing need for women's organization, to ensure that development and legislation are informed by the priorities of women, and that South Africa's land question is treated as a problem of gender transformation.

In seinen Aufnahmen sucht Niels Schabrod nach den Ikonen Europas, nach historischen Momentaufnahmen in unserem kollektiven Gedächtnis, die unser Verständnis der Vergangenheit erklären und erhellen. Schabrod besuchte dazu vier Ereignisorte aus zwei Jahrhunderten: Waterloo, die Somme, die Stätten des Spanischen Bürgerkriegs und der alliierten Landung 1944 - Orte also, die klar auf historische Ereignisse verweisen, die als Erinnerungskultur und Geschichtspolitik das Werden, Wirken und Selbstverständnis der europäischen Union beeinflusst haben.Mit seinen Aufnahmen will Schabrod dazu einladen, über das Erbe dieser Ereignisse und unseren Umgang mit ihnen nachzudenken. Seine Fotografien zeigen nicht nur die Stätten selbst, sondern auch die Soldaten, Politiker, Reenactors und Touristen, die diese Schlachtfelder besuchen. Im Zusammenspiel mit Zitaten und Textfragmenten bilden sie ein Kaleidoskop, in dem Details aus Geschichte und Gegenwart unaufhörlich durcheinander geworfen und immer wieder neu zusammengestellt werden.

Le Coran ( ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿, al-Qur¿an, « la récitation ») est le texte sacré de l'islam. Il reprend verbatim la parole d'Allah. OEuvre de l'Antiquité tardive, le Coran reste le premier et le plus ancien livre connu en arabe jusqu'à ce jour. La tradition musulmane le présente comme le premier ouvrage en arabe, avec le caractère spécifique d'inimitabilité dans la beauté de sa structure et dans ses principes moraux et éthiques.Le Coran regroupe les paroles d'Allah, révélations (ayat) faites au dernier prophète et messager de Dieu Mahomet (¿¿¿¿, Müammad, « le loué ») à partir de 610-612 jusqu'à sa mort en 632 par l'archange Gabriel (¿¿¿¿¿, Jibril). Le Coran est parfois appelé sous d'autres dénominations comme al-kitab (« le Livre »), adh-dhikr (« le Rappel ») ou encore al-furqan (« le Discernement »).

?In this poetic memoir, Katherine Lawrence rides the electric charge of childhood innocence to its moment of impact with adult manipulation and betrayal. Black Umbrella offers a bold portrait of family breakdown through the lens of a child, a teenager, and later as an adult who approaches love with wariness and longing. These poems speak of long-held secrets, the bonds of love, strained loyalties, loss, and the courage required to embrace happiness through the thickening underbrush of adulthood. A tough and tender collection that contributes to one of the most compelling narratives of the modern age - the contemporary family in transition.

The 'smart city' is often promoted as a technology-driven solution to complex urban issues. While commentators are increasingly critical of techno-optimistic narratives, the political imagination is dominated by claims that technical solutions can be uniformly applied to intractable problems. This book provides a much-needed alternative view, exploring how 'home-grown' digital disruption, driven and initiated by local actors, upends the mainstream corporate narrative. Drawing on original research conducted in a range of urban African settings, Odendaal shows how these initiatives can lead to meaningful change. This is a valuable resource for scholars working in the intersection of science and technology studies, urban and economic geography and sociology.

Two of today's most respected world-changers, leadership expert Maxwell and global development leader Hoskins, share their real-world experiences helping to transform millions of lives, communities, and businesses around the world to show people how to be the change the world needs and help others do the same.

The purpose of the project Public Private Partnerships and the Poor in Water and Sanitation is to determine workable processes whereby the needs of the poor are promoted in strategies which encourage public-private partnerships (PPP) in the provision of water supply and sanitation services. One of the key objectives is to fill some of the gaps which exist in evidence-based reporting of the facts and issues around the impacts of PPP on poor consumers. This report presents the case study from the Dolphin Coast, South Africa.

Explores the complex and intersecting dimensions of gender, ethnicity, and culture on women in the Global South, as well as the central roles of women in resisting colonial rule, and their foundational contributions to post-independence constitutional reform and nation building.

First published in 1985, Technology and Rural Women synthesizes the fragmented empirical evidence and the wide range of theoretical approaches on the effects of modernisation on women in the developing world.

First published in 1989, The Technological Behaviour of Public Enterprises in Developing Countries presents essays based on original research work to employ a wide variety of approaches to analyse the technological choices made by public enterprises in Tanzania, India, Argentina, and Brazil.

This book investigates how borders in former Soviet Union territories have evolved and shifted in the thirty years since the end of the Cold War.The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 led to fifteen independent states and numerous de facto states; but this process of rebordering is not finished, and social, economic, infrastructural, cultural and political networks and spaces continue to develop. This book explores the intersection between these geopolitical shifts and the individual lived experience, drawing on cases from across border regions in the Caucasus, Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Throughout, the book introduces and frames the case studies with well-informed theoretical, conceptual and methodological overviews that situate them within border studies in general and post-Soviet border spaces in particular. Overall, the book demonstrates that like a kaleidoscope, the dynamic elements in these newly evolved border regions are similar yet strikingly different in their juxtapositions, with the appearance of new configurations often dependent on changing geopolitical constellations.This timely guide to the post-Soviet world thirty years after the Cold War will be of interest to researchers across border studies, politics, geography, social anthropology, history, Eastern European Studies, Central Asian Studies, and Caucasian Studies.

This collaborative work brings together international lawyers and political scientists to explore whether and how the retreat of the US, and the simultaneous rise of China, affect the dynamics of multilateralism to which the EU claims to adhere. It focuses on the trilateral interaction between these three actors and the policy impact their interactions have in specific multilateral settings and examines cooperation, competition and confrontation of these three actors in key international organizations such as the WTO, UNESCO, Human Rights Council and UNCLOS, NATO, the ASEAN Regional Forum and the World Health Organization in times of Covid-19. It also addresses their approaches and attitudes toward international humanitarian norms and the peace process in the Middle-East.This book offers an insightful exploration of the future of multilateralism under the impact of the Trump administration and probes the future of the liberal international order. It will provide excellent reading material on current affairs for both graduate and undergraduate students in international law and international relations, in particular for courses relating to international organization, multilateralism, or the US, China and the EU in international affairs. For experienced researchers the book proposes in-depth studies that relate to major debates in the disciplines of international law and international relations.

This book investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health and well-being of Indigenous Peoples and assesses the policy responses taken by governments and Indigenous communities across the world.Bringing together innovative research and policy insights from a range of disciplines, this book investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health and well-being of Indigenous Peoples across the world, with coverage of¿North America, Central America, Africa, and Oceania. Further, it explores the actions taken by governments and Indigenous communities in addressing the challenges posed by this public health crisis. The book emphasises the social determinants of health and well-being, reflecting on issues such as self-governance, human rights law, housing, socioeconomic conditions, access to health care, culture, environmental deprivation, and resource extraction. Chapters also highlight the resilience and agency of Indigenous Peoples in combating the COVID-19 pandemic, despite the legacy of colonialism, patterns of systemic discrimination, and social exclusion.Providing concrete pathways for improving the conditions of Indigenous Peoples in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, this book is essential reading for researchers across indigenous studies, public health, and social policy.

First published in 1974, Employment Policies in Developing Countries is an attempt to take stock of experience that has been acquired in a number of developing countries in matters relating to employment promotion.

The book aims to help clients, consultants and funding agencies which are engaged in dam safety assessment projects in developing countries to focus on issues that are based on the past lessons learnt.

This book represents the first attempt to evaluate the first two decades of the EU counterterrorism policy. It aims to assess the collective securitization process in EU counterterrorism, evaluating this as a process between a construction of security threats and the development of supranational governance through crisification.Compared to the lack of shared perception of the terrorist threat and the virtual absence of counterterrorism cooperation amongst European states in the 1970s and 1980s, the existence of EU-wide debates, legislative instruments and practical cooperation nowadays is particularly remarkable. The chapters in this volume explore this change and seek to explain it by drawing upon the concept of 'collective securitization'. The book posits that EU counterterrorism needs to be analysed as a process driven by collective securitization as part of an ongoing process of crisification that leads to increased supranational governance.The book is both extremely relevant and timely for readers outside the area of research for several reasons. First of all, EU counterterrorism is often argued to be at the forefront of the EU's response to new security threats. The 'EU acquis' on the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ) has grown significantly over the last years. Consequently, it is crucial and very timely to examine EU counterterrorism - exactly 20 years after the first significant measures were adopted in the wake of 9/11.The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Global Affairs.