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Introduction: What is the Unique Contribution of Volunteering to International Development?

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

This editorial article introduces this IDS Bulletin on the value of volunteering. The issue is based on the global action research...

Volunteering for Development within the New Ecosystem of International Development

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

This article explores the ways in which volunteering for development is changing in the context of the shifting wider ecology of...

Using Participatory Methodologies to Achieve Change in Valuing Volunteering

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

The global action research project Valuing Volunteering explores how and why volunteering contributes to poverty reduction and...

The Impacts of Politics and Ethnicity on Volunteering

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

This article examines how national and local ethno-politics impact on volunteering by taking a cross-country comparative perspective:...

Social Contracts, Networks and Security in Tropical Africa Conflict States: An Overview

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

In this IDS Bulletin we present fieldwork from articles covering the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone,...

ProSAVANA and the Expanding Scope of Accountability in Brazil’s Development Cooperation

Published by: Wiley

This article takes the case of Brazil's flagship ProSAVANA programme in Mozambique to analyse changing accountability practices in Brazilian development cooperation.

Climate Policy meets National Development Contexts: Insights from Kenya and Mozambique

Published by: Elsevier

Despite the growth in work linking climate change and national level development agendas, there has been limited attention to their political economy. This paper applies a political economy analysis to case studies on low carbon energy in Kenya and carbon forestry in Mozambique.

Interpreting China-Africa Agricultural Encounters: Rhetoric and Reality in a Large Scale Rice Project in Mozambique

In recent years, China’s burgeoning agricultural investment in Africa has attracted tremendous attention from media, academics and...

The role of volunteering in sustainable development

This report shares findings from the global action research project, Valuing Volunteering which explores how and why volunteering contributes to poverty reduction and sustainable positive change, and the factors which prevent it from doing so. It reveals that volunteers can make a unique contribution towards efforts to end global poverty.

A participação dos cidadãos nos processos de responsabilização social: aprendizagens da experiência da Facilidade na Província de Nampula

Published by: COWI

O Programa Cidadania e Participação (Citizen Engagement Programme - CEP) em Moçambique é um programa de empoderamento e...