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Situating Women : Gender Politics and Circumstance in Fiji
Since the time of decolonisation in Fiji, women’s organisations have navigated a complex political terrain. While they have stayed true to the aim of advancing women’s status, their work has been buffeted by national political upheavals and changing global and regional directions in development policy-making. This book documents how women activists have understood and responded to these cha…
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- 9781922144157
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- 278
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- 305.4099611.GEO
NGOs in india : the challenges of women's empowerment and accountability
By examining how NGOs operate in Southern India in the early 2000’s, this book discusses the challenges faced by small, local NGOs in the uncertain times of changing aid dynamics. The key findings focus on what empowerment means for Indian women, and how NGO accountability to these groups is an important part of the empowerment being realised. The notion of community empowerment, in which the…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780203842720
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- 148p
- Series Title
- Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
- Call Number
- 338.954 KIL
Reframing the urban challenge in Africa : knowledge co-production from the South
This book explores the changing dynamics and challenges behind the rapid expanse of Africa’s urban population. Africa’s urban age is underway. With the world’s fastest growing urban population, the continent is rapidly transforming from one that is largely rural, to one that is largely urban. Often facing limited budgets, those tasked with managing African cities require empirical evidenc…
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- 16
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- 9781003008385
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- -
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- 307.76096 NTO r
Between peace and conflict in the East and the West: studies on transformatio…
This open access book features various studies on democratization, transformation, socio-economic development, and security issues in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) geographical region and beyond. Written by experts and scholars working in the field of human dimension, security, transformation and development in Europe and Asia, particularly in post-soviet and co…
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- 1
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- 9783030774899
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- x, 297p
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- -
- Call Number
- 341.7 BET b
Securing Village Life : Development in Late Colonial Papua New Guinea
Securing Village Life: Development in Late Colonial Papua New Guinea examines the significance for post-World War II Australian colonial policy of the modern idea of development. Australian officials emphasised the importance of bringing development for both the colony of Papua and the United Nations Trust Territory of New Guinea. The principal form that development took involved securing small…
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- 13
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- 9781922144850
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- 318
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- Call Number
- 338.9009953.MAC
SDGs, transformation, and quality growth : insights from international cooper…
This is an Open Access book. The primary objective of this book is to seek out insights into the concept of high-quality growth (HQG). It explores the essential attributes of HQG, such as inclusiveness, sustainability, and resilience, as well as its relationship with transformation, by drawing principally on illustrative cases and instances of international cooperation. The United Nations docum…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789811697487
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- xv, 164.; ill.
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- Sustainable development goals series
- Call Number
- 338.927 SDG h
Youth in Fiji and Solomon Islands : Livelihoods, Leadership and Civic Engagement
Fiji, Solomon Islands and the wider Pacific region are experiencing a ‘youth bulge’. As such, the livelihoods pathways of youth in these countries will be a key determinant of their social, political and economic futures. This book looks at the cultural expectations of Fijian and Solomon Islander youth, as well as the socio-political positioning of youth activists. It investigates how forma…
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- 9781760465155
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- -
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- 305.235099611.CRA
Basic income : a transformative policy for India
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Would it be possible to provide people with a basic income as a right? The idea has a long history. This book draws on two pilot schemes conducted in the Indian State of Madhya Pradesh, in which thousands of men, women and children were provided with an unconditi…
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- 9781472583130
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- xii, 240p ; ill.
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- -
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- 339.354 DAV b
Education for Sustaining Peace through Historical Memory
‘This is a necessary exercise in deconstruction and reconstruction that challenges conventional and critical approaches to peace education. Schultze-Kraft’s new book is an impressive piece of synthesis, a personal manifesto married to a rigorous interrogation of the theoretical literature. It pushes boundaries enhancing the sustaining peace agenda. As such it deserves the critical attention…
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- 6
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- 9783030936549
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- xi; 119; ill.
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- -
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- 327.1 EDU M
Creating resilient futures : integrating disaster risk reduction, sustainable…
This excellent text recognises that efforts towards improving development outcomes must work in concert with strategies which promote planetary health and support the transition to a sustainable and climate-resilient future. — Rt Hon Helen Clark, Patron, The Helen Clark Foundation, Auckland, New Zealand. The threat multiplier of climate change is carefully used to examine best practic…
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- 11
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030807917
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- xix; 257p; ill
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- -
- Call Number
- 363.346 CRE S
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