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Participatory Video: A Practical Guide to Using Video Creatively in Group Development Work

Published by: Routledge

Participatory Video is a comprehensive guide to using video in group development work. Based on an innovative approach researched over twelve years, the book sets out a complete programme for workers in a range of settings, and features over 60 exercises, explaining clearly the procedure to follow, the time needed and the value of each activity.

Environmental Entitlements: A Framework for Understanding the Institutional Dynamics of Environmental Change

Published by: IDS

This overview paper seeks to complement and add to emerging critiques of 'community-based sustainable development' by focusing on the implications of intra-community dynamics and ecological heterogeneity

Household Food Security in Malawi

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Malawi is characterised in food security discourse as a paradigmatic case of incipient malthusian crisis in rural Africa. Malawians enjoy few employment alternatives to agriculture, economic liberalisation has created new patterns of opportunity for some but increased marginalisation for others.

Introduction

Published by: Freedom House

In Search of Alternatives to Prison Sentencing

Published by: Freedom House

Health in Transition: Reforming China’s Rural Health Services

Published by: IDS

This issue of the IDS Bulletin asks whether China will be able to maintain cost-effective rural health services as it is transformed into a market economy. The papers were prepared as contributions to an intense debate underway in China.

Whose Reality Counts? Putting the First Last

Published by: Practical Action Publishing

In this sequel to 'Rural Development: Putting the Last First', Robert Chambers argues that central issues in development have been overlooked, and that many past errors have flowed from domination by those with power.

Educational Attainments and Household Characteristics in Tanzania

Published by: IDS

This paper uses multivariate regression techniques to analyse household survey data collected in rural Tanzania in 1992. It focuses on how household and individual characteristics affect whether or not a child goes to primary school, completes primary and attends secondary.