Volumes 21 - 30: Getting Institutions Right for Women in Development: Recent submissions

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    • Preface 

      Maxwell, Simon; Buchanan?Smith, Margaret (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1994)

    • Conceptual Frameworks for Linking Relief and Development 

      Longhurst, Richard (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1994)
      Summary Linking relief and development is an intensely practical and political matter. A conceptual framework is essential for assessing the causes of the crisis and deciding what to do. But there are many different ...

    • The Impact of Drought on Sub?Saharan African Economies 

      Benson, Charlotte; Clay, Edward (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1994)
      Summary Drought shocks can have potentially large, but highly differentiated economy?wide impacts, depending on the structure and resource endowments of an economy. Counter?intuitively, drought shocks have the greatest ...

    • Relief, Rehabilitation and Development: Are the Distinctions Useful? 

      Seaman, John (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1994)
      Summary Although there is currently much interest in the ‘Relief?Development Continuum’ this has no generally accepted definition or practical meaning. It is suggested that the phrase can have meaning only from a defined ...

    • Complex Emergencies and the Crisis of Developmentalism 

      Duffield, Mark (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1994)
      Summary This article takes complex emergencies and the humanitarian response to them as its point of reference. It provides a critique of relief, development and the linking debate. Rather than being autonomous, relief ...

    • Public Institutions, People, and Famine Mitigation 

      Davies, Susanna (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1994)
      Summary Taking the specific example of famine induced by the shock of drought, this article explores institutional barriers to linking relief and development within a four stage framework of preparedness, mitigation, ...

    • Linking Relief and Development: An Ethiopian Case Study 

      Maxwell, Simon; Lirenso, Alemayehu (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1994)
      Summary The idea of linking relief and development (LRD) is immediately attractive in Ethiopia, where 27 million people, 55 per cent of the population, are food insecure, and where the cost of relief has exceeded the ...

    • Linking Relief and Development: A Case Study of Botswana 

      Buchanan?Smith, Margaret; Tlogelang, Gabolekwe (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1994)
      Summary During the prolonged drought in Botswana in the 1980s, the government launched a large?scale drought relief programme (DRP). It successfully prevented famine, but its performance in terms of linking relief and ...

    • From Survival to Livelihood in Mozambique 

      Green, Reginald Herbold; Mavie, Maria (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1994)
      Summary Rehabilitation is an unserviced limbo in development. The paper provides a programme checklist, reviews the obstacles to rehabilitation and proposes an approach of ‘iterative flexibility’. In Mozambique, over half ...

    • Linking Relief and Development in Zambia 

      Eele, Graham; Luhila, Freda (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1994)
      Summary The 1992 drought in Zambia occurred at a time of rapid political and economic change. Its impact was exacerbated by widespread poverty and past policy distortions. The response was rapid and largely successful. A ...

    • The World Food Programme's Response to the Challenge of Linking Relief and Development 

      Herbinger, Wolfgang (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1994)
      Summary The World Food Programme is committed to linking relief and development in three ways: integrating disaster mitigation elements into development projects; developing capacity?building elements into relief operations; ...

    • Linking Relief with Development in Southern Africa: A SADC Perspective on the 1991/92 Drought Emergency 

      Mugwara, Reginald (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1994)
      Summary Unprecedented drought in 1991/92 affected over 2 million square miles in the SADC region, put 18 million people at risk and entailed costs of $US 2.6 billion, equivalent to 12 per cent of the region's GDP. SADC ...

    • ODA'S Approach to Linking Relief and Development 

      Holden, Pat (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1994)
      Summary The UK Overseas Development Administration is currently grappling with the issue of how to operationalize the links between humanitarian aid and development within the aid programme. The ODA's Emergency Aid ...

    • The Roles Of DHA And UNDP in Linking Relief and Development 

      Askwith, Michael (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1994)
      Summary In an attempt to rationalize the UN system's capacity to respond rapidly and effectively to emergencies, the Department of Humanitarian Affairs was established in 1992. At the country level, the DHA is in most ...

    • Linking Relief and Development: The Perspective of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies 

      Walker, Peter (Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1994)
      Summary The Federation has seen a massive growth in the past few years in its disaster response activities. Many response operations are now becoming permanent welfare support programmes which pose severe problems of ...

    • GENDER AND BIODIVERSITY: A FEMINIST POLITICAL ECOLOGY PERSPECTIVE 

      Rocheleau, Dianne E. (Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1995)
      Summary Biodiversity protection will depend, in large part, on restoring the balance between gendered rights and responsibilities and on an integrated vision of livelihood, life support and life?for?its?own sake. An example ...

    • ‘A FARM IS LIKE A CHILD WHO CANNOT BE LEFT UNGUARDED’: GENDER, LAND AND LABOUR IN CENTRAL PROVINCE, KENYA 

      Mackenzie, Fiona (Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1995)
      Summary This article examines the relationship between women and men and their environment in an area of intensively farmed smallholdings in Kenya. The case study demonstrates how their relationship is constantly renegotiated ...

    • EDITORIAL: GENDER RELATIONS AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE 

      Leach, Melissa; Joeks, Susan; Green, Cathy (Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1995)

    • RUINED SETTLEMENTS AND NEW GARDENS: GENDER AND SOIL?RIPENING AMONG KURANKO FARMERS IN THE FOREST?SAVANNA TRANSITION ZONE 

      Leach, Melissa; Fairhead, James (Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1995)
      Summary Focusing on a particular field?soil?vegetation complex ( tombondu ), this article considers how changing patterns of gendered resource use ? changing routines and sites of women's and men's work, and shifts in ...

    • FROM CONJUGAL CONTRACTS TO ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONS: SOME THOUGHTS ON LABOUR AND TECHNOLOGY 

      Jackson, Cecile (Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1995)
      Summary This article presents some material from an empirical study in Chivi Communal Area of southern Zimbabwe in an attempt to unravel the concepts of conjugal contracts and divisions of labour which have become unhelpfully ...