This chapter delineates the evolution of two contested, closely related concepts in development ethics – empowerment and participatory development. While empowerment originated in radical feminist ...

In April 2015, Maji Safi Group received word from district health officials of 30 confirmed cases of cholera in the Rorya District in northern Tanzania, where our organization operates. Though cholera ...

The World Bank has repeatedly acknowledged the importance of participation, good governance, and accountability for development. As both human rights and development experts have noted, respect for ...

LIKE in case of other social indicators, it is a matter of concern that Pakistan is deficient in health facilities and expertise when compared to many other developing countries. It ranks 147th for ...

Africa needs to take control over its own development strategy through a participatory and coordinated approach that involves a more effective mobilization and use of domestic financial and ...

Development in Practice offers practice-based analysis and research concerning the social dimensions of development and humanitarianism, and provides a worldwide forum for debate and the exchange of ...

Participant observation to participatory development: making anthropology work / Paul Sillitoe -- Upsetting the sacred balance: can the study of indigenous knowledge reflect cosmic connectedness? / ...

An important instrument for ensuring the implementation of gender mainstreaming throughout the United Nations is competence development, i.e. the development of awareness, knowledge, commitment and ...

There is great potential to take a bottom-up approach to development planning in the drylands that includes the knowledge, input, and support of dryland communities. To date, pastoralists have had ...