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Significant proportions of aid already flow through the
non-governmental sector, but questions are increasingly being asked
about the role of NGOs and whether they can deliver on their
ambitious claims. This study examines conditionality and mutual
commitment between international aid donors and recipient NGOs,
North and South. Fieldwork and case study material from Uganda and
South Africa are used to support the authors contention that the
fast changing aid sector has--in the context of a dynamic policy
environment--encouraged the mainstreaming of a managerial approach
that does not admit of any analysis of power relations or cultural
diversity. This increasing--essentially technical-- definition of
the roles of NGOs has worked to limit the extent of the very
development that the organizations were initially established to
promote.
Caught between their female gender and their aspirations in a
public sphere founded on the gender role of men, women face a
problem that is more intractable than conventional feminist
political analysis has fully recognized. In this book, Jennifer
Chapman addresses both the substance of the problem and feminist
strategies for change. Male dominance of political elites is
virtually universal and yet there is no general theory of
recruitment to account for this. Jennifer Chapman uses a rigorous
comparative study of political recruitment to show why different
models of the process among men produce near-identical results,
irrespective of context. She then looks beyond this general pattern
to its gender basis, and to strategies for change.
Caught between their female gender and their aspirations in a public sphere founded on the gender role of men, women face a problem that is more intractable than conventional feminist political analysis has fully recognized. In this book, Jennifer Chapman addresses both the substance of the problem and feminist strategies for change. Male dominance of political elites is virtually universal and yet there is no general theory of recruitment to account for this. Jennifer Chapman uses a rigorous comparative study of political recruitment to show why different models of the process among men produce near-identical results, irrespective of context. She then looks beyond this general pattern to its gender basis, and to strategies for change.
The Aid Chain explores the role of funding conditions in shaping
co-operation and resistance as aid moves from donors, to NGOs, to
local communities. Significant proportions of aid flow through the
non-governmental sector but questions are increasingly being asked
about the role of NGOs and whether they can deliver on their
ambitious claims. This study examines whether the existing aid
processes widely used by donors and NGOs are effective in tackling
poverty and exclusion. Findings from fieldwork in Uganda, South
Africa and the UK are used to show how the fast changing aid sector
has, in the context of a dynamic policy environment, encouraged the
mainstreaming of a managerial approach that does not admit of any
analysis of power relations or cultural diversity. This increasing
definition of the roles of NGOs as essentially technical, limits
the extent of the very development that the organizations were
initially established to promote. 'This disturbing and dramatically
important book has been crying out to be written. It is a stark
revelation of uncomfortable realities from which we often try to
hide...Anyone working in an aid organization who is serious about
achieving the MDGs has to read this book, and to act on its
lessons. ' Robert Chambers
Ethnodrama: An Anthology of Reality Theatre contains seven
carefully-selected ethnodramas that best illustrate this emerging
genre of arts-based research, a burgeoning but evident trend in the
field of theatre production itself. In his introduction to
ethnodrama and to the plays themselves, Salda-a emphasizes how a
credible, vivid, and persuasive rendering of a research
participant's story as a theatrical performance creates insights
for both researcher and audience not possible through conventional
qualitative data analysis. With their focus on the personal,
immediate and contextual, these plays about marginalized
identities, abortion, street life and oppression manage a unique
balance between theoretical research and everyday realism.
A collection of beautifully articulate, honest poems encapsulating
the joy and challenges of having a baby. A journey of humour, tears
and love that will resonate with any new parent.
A collection of beautifully articulate, honest poems encapsulating
the joy and challenges of having a baby. A journey of humour, tears
and love that will resonate with any new parent.
They say a woman knows if her husband is having an affair. When we
hear of someone in that situation we say things like, 'why does she
put up with it?', 'she should just dump him'. So what happens to us
when we know but hold back from taking that same advice? Then, when
we acknowledge things are over and it is time to move on, why is it
so hard. They say a woman knows if her husband is having an affair.
When we hear of someone we know in that situation we say things
like, 'why does she put up with it?', 'why doesn't she just dump
him'. So what happens to us when we know but hold back from taking
that same advice? Then, when we finally acknowledge things are over
and it is time to move on, why is it so hard. The life we have
known for so long has left us on the edge of things, a spectator on
the edge of things, unsure of what to do next. The dating game has
changed to the point where you wonder who changed the rules. 'The
rain was making a racket on the boats, too much to hear if there
were any sounds coming from inside them. I started to slow up a bit
as I got nearer to Baz's, and realised I felt something like
disappointment when I saw that it was in darkness. I must have
paused for a moment, perhaps to make sure, I don't know what I was
thinking. Then I realised that I was horribly wet and that the rain
was getting heavier and faster. I climbed onto Baz's boat and tried
the door handle. It wasn't locked. Inside it was pitch black, but I
wasn't going to switch on a light even if I could find where it
was. 'I pulled the door shut as quietly as I could because I knew I
should not be here. I went down the steps and felt for somewhere to
sit down until I got used to the darkness. The rain on the roof had
a different sound from the one it had made outside, as if it
desperately wanted to come in and was angry about being shut out. I
started to shiver. Then I closed my eyes and tried to see in my
mind's eye how it had been when the men were there. The
pitter-patter came again. And then I froze as I heard another sound
and the boat rocked...'
The effect of strategy training on working memory inchildren with
acquired brain injuries was investigated. Six children between the
ages of 8and 14 years completed three pre and postintervention
tasks. The children began by completing three memory worksheets,
and were thentaught a range of strategies aimed to enhance their
working memory recall. This wasfollowed, a few weeks later, with
the post intervention task, where the children completed
threesimilar worksheets. The children were again asked to report
the strategies they used foreach task. The task performances were
compared across the two conditions, and thestrategies reported
within each condition were also analysed to see if they correlated
with any ofthe findings. The results indicated that there was
asignificant increase across the two conditions, withthe children
scoring higher in their working memorytests in the post
intervention task. This finding provides evidence that strategy
trainingincreases working memory, supporting much of the previous
literature in the field.
Ethnodrama: An Anthology of Reality Theatre contains seven
carefully-selected ethnodramas that best illustrate this emerging
genre of arts-based research, a burgeoning but evident trend in the
field of theatre production itself. In his introduction to
ethnodrama and to the plays themselves, Saldana emphasizes how a
credible, vivid, and persuasive rendering of a research
participant's story as a theatrical performance creates insights
for both researcher and audience not possible through conventional
qualitative data analysis. With their focus on the personal,
immediate and contextual, these plays about marginalized
identities, abortion, street life and oppression manage a unique
balance between theoretical research and everyday realism.
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