Educationally, pastoralists appear to be a paradox. From the point of view of official education they are a complete failure: in terms of enrolment, attendance, classroom performance, achievement, continuity to higher education and gender balance they regularly score badly.
1 January 2001
IDS Working Paper 135
The high incidence of both child labour and out-of-school children in the South Asian region has given rise to competing explanations. Broadly speaking, these can be categorised as those which focus on poverty and under-development and those which focus on policy failure and poor implementation...
1 January 2001
This paper analyses the particular approach to participatory development developed by SPEECH, an NGO working in Tamil Nadu, India. We explore the extent to which SPEECH's approach transformed gender relations in the communities where they work.
1 January 2001
This paper is part of a broader attempt to identify the key producers of social goods and how social policy interventions can support them.
1 January 2001
Sub-Saharan Africa is the only region in the world currently facing both widespread chronic food insecurity and threats of famine. Why is this so and what can be done?
1 January 2001
Why do fieldworkers use participatory approaches as they do? This paper uses a case study of fieldworkers'use of Pariticipatory Rural Appraisal in ActionAid the Gambia to address this question.
1 January 2001
IDS Working Paper 130
Advocates of decentralisation in developing countries argue that bringing government closer to the people will make it more responsive and hence more likely to develop policies and outputs which meet the needs of ordinary citizens - the majority of whom are 'the poor'.
1 January 2001
IDS working papers;127
In this paper, we take up these questions. We explore an approach to social policy that sees citizens not only as users or choosers, but as active participants who engage in making and shaping social policy and social provisioning.
1 January 2001
This book is based on the realities of poor people. It draws upon research conducted in 1999 involving 20,000 poor women and men from 23 countries.
1 January 2001
IDS Working Paper 133
This paper focuses on the production of poverty knowledge through measurement and assessment, providing an overview of contemporary poverty assessment approaches, and the issues and dilemmas involved in applying them in the context of poverty reduction policy processes.
1 January 2001
The management of Africa's soils is one of the major challenges facing agriculture and livelihoods in the 21st century. Policies to address this trend to assume that soils are being degraded on a large scale, and farmers' practices often contribute to a 'downward spiral' of degradation and...
1 January 2001
Effective poverty reduction requires narrowing the gap between words and actions, making trust and accountability real within and between organisations, at all levels and between all actors. Aid agencies today are shifting emphasis from projects and service delivery to a language of rights and...
1 January 2001
