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1 January 2000
Published by: IDS
This paper describes processes of migration in seven sites in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Mali. It is part of a series of reports produced by the IDS-based multi-country comparative research programme on sustainable livelihoods.
1 January 2000
Published by: IDS
This paper describes and compares the strategies for diversification of activities and livelihoods being pursued in Mali and Ethiopia and addresses the role of Livelihood Diversification as one of several strategies pursued by rural people in these countries.
1 January 2000
Published by: IDS
This Report is from the project 'Gender and Primary Schooling in Africa'.
1 January 2000
Published by: IDS
This Report is from the project 'Gender and Primary Schooling in Africa'. This report focuses Ghana
1 January 2000
Published by: IDS
This Report is from the project 'Gender and Primary Schooling in Africa'. This report focuses Uganda
1 January 2000
Published by: IDS
This report argues that it is possible to use the Sustainable Livelihoods (SL) approach as a starting point for bridging the gap between bottom-up livelihoods analysis and top-down policy analysis.
1 January 2000
Published by: IDS
This paper describes programmes for developing effective leadership for change in agriculture and in the health sector in Africa. Aimed at top level public- and private- sector workers, the programmes exposes the participants to problem-solving strategies that they can apply to their own institutions.
1 January 2000
Published by: IDS
In recent years there has been a major shift in attitudes from viewing communities as passive recipients of health care, to adoption of new approaches seeking to make more of the potential that active community participation might offer for enhanced accountability and improved responsiveness of services.
1 January 2000
Published by: IDS
Agricultural intensification, in all its different forms, is one of the three major strategies adopted by households in order to attain a livelihood. This paper presents research findings on agricultural intensification from Ethiopia and Mali field research carried out under the Sustainable Livelihoods Programme. The paper focuses on the determinants of agricultural intensification in five research sites, in order to identify which factors inhibit or facilitate the process of agricultural change.
1 January 2000
Published by: IDS
What is the scope for local upgrading strategies where producers operate in global value chains? This paper examines the interaction of global chain governance and local industrial cluster governance and unpacks the key issue of whether insertion in a global value chain enhances or undermines local upgrading strategies.
