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Indigenous Perspectives on Community Economic Development: A North-South Conversation

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research, 2013
This article analyses an online forum on Indigenous Community-Based Economic Development (CED), in which twenty-two participants from Canada and Latin America shared and reflected on experiences ranging from cultural tourism in Bolivia to a food ...
Gretchen Hernandez
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Development Interventions and Agriculture Adaptation: A Social Network Analysis of Farmer Knowledge Transfer in Ghana

open access: yesAgriculture, 2016
Social ties play an important role in agricultural knowledge exchange, particularly in developing countries with high exposure to agriculture development interventions.
Kirstie Cadger   +3 more
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Towards a new paradigm of global development? Beyond the limits of international development

open access: yesProgress in Human Geography, 2019
An international development framing is increasingly ill-fitting to a 21st century characterized by interconnected globalized capitalism, the challenge of sustainable development, as well as the blurring of North–South boundaries.
R. Horner
semanticscholar   +1 more source

On the use and misuse of climate change projections in international development

open access: yesWIREs Climate Change, 2019
Climate resilience is increasingly prioritized by international development agencies and national governments. However, current approaches to informing communities of future climate risk are problematic.
H. Nissan   +6 more
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The erasures of racism in education and international development: re-reading the ‘global learning crisis’

open access: yesCompare, 2019
Despite pervasive forms of racism on a global scale, the field of education and international development continues to fail to substantively engage with the production and effects of racial domination across its domains of research, policy and practice ...
Arathi Sriprakash   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Winds of change and the spatial Transformation of post-socialist cities [PDF]

open access: yesBaltic Worlds, 2013
The paper explores the new planning regimes and planning processes in post-socialist countries and their ability to influence the spatial transformation of cities.
Sasha Tsenkova, Professor of planning and international development
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Who Controls the City in the Global Urban Era? Mapping the Dimensions of Urban Geopolitics in Beira City, Mozambique

open access: yesLand, 2019
In recent years, a new era of interventionism has emerged targeting the development of African cities, manifested in ‘fantasy’ urban plans, surging infrastructure investments and global policy agendas.
Murtah Shannon
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Why Government and Non-Governmental Policies and Projects Fail Despite ‘Evaluations’: An Indicator to Measure whether Evaluation Systems Incorporate the Rules of Good Governance

open access: yesJournal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 2010
Background: While much has been written in the evaluation literature on the theory of evaluations and on specific cases, there is still no comprehensive and easy to use indicator that can be used to hold organizations to the principles of effective ...
David H. Lempert
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The OECD/DAC Criteria for International Development Evaluations: An Assessment and Ideas for Improvement

open access: yesJournal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 2008
The five evaluation criteria from the Development Assistance Committee of the Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD/DAC) have been a strong foundation for international development evaluation since 1991. They have been the most prominent and widely
Thomaz Chianca
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Who is disabled? On whether the functional definition of disability targets the same individuals as the subjective definition

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainability, 2023
With the increased attention to disability as a vulnerability criterion in the Sustainable Development Goals, international organizations and NGOs within the international development sector have started to pay explicit attention to persons with ...
Judith Baart   +2 more
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