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Contribution to Change: An Approach to Evaluating the Role of Intervention in Disaster Recovery
ISBN: 9781853398124 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This guide provides a reliable and practical method for identifying the contribution an agency makes to changes to people's lives in the recovery period following disasters. It outlines 11 steps that take evaluators through designing quantitative and qualitative methods through to collecting field data and developing a narrative of evidence and change. The Contribution to Change tool encourages recognition of the efforts of the community itself, as well as the impact of other actors such as government or community-based groups.
As the number of people affected by disasters has... This guide provides a reliable and practical method for identifying the contribution an agency makes to changes to people's lives in the recovery peri...
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Basic Accounting for Community Organizations and Small Groups: A Practical Guide
ISBN: 9781853398216 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a step-by-step guide to basic accounting and financial management techniques. It is written in plain language for people who have no previous experience of accounting and book-keeping. The procedures described in this book are not just specific to development programs.
The success of any venture, whatever its size, depends on proper financial control. Using simple case studies, the author shows how to: construct a budget and cash-flow forecast; record and control cash payments; draw up an analyzed cash book, and a receipts and payments account; operate a bank... This book offers a step-by-step guide to basic accounting and financial management techniques. It is written in plain language for people who have no ...
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121,78 |
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Into the Unknown: Explorations in Development Practice
ISBN: 9781853398223 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book challenges readers to examine the pervasive significance of power in forming and framing knowledge. Into the Unknown reflects on the journey of learning and encourages readers to learn from observation, curiosity, critical feedback, play and fun. This book includes tips on how to lead into workshops and on how to convene workshops that can co-generate knowledge and have an influence.
Development is about change, and lives immersed in researching international development should be prepared for exploration, for discovering the unexpected, and for questioning the... This book challenges readers to examine the pervasive significance of power in forming and framing knowledge. Into the Unknown reflects on the ...
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Into the Unknown: Explorations in Development Practice
ISBN: 9781853398230 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book challenges readers to examine the pervasive significance of power in forming and framing knowledge. Into the Unknown reflects on the journey of learning and encourages readers to learn from observation, curiosity, critical feedback, play and fun. This book includes tips on how to lead into workshops and on how to convene workshops that can co-generate knowledge and have an influence.
Development is about change, and lives immersed in researching international development should be prepared for exploration, for discovering the unexpected, and for questioning the... This book challenges readers to examine the pervasive significance of power in forming and framing knowledge. Into the Unknown reflects on the ...
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114,16 |
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Building Financial Management Capacity for Ngos and Community Organizations: A Practical Guide
ISBN: 9781853398247 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents practical ways to build financial management capacity in an international development context (although much of it applies to any non-profit organization). It describes good practice in the specific tasks of financial management - for example, planning and budgeting and financial controls. It gives examples of how groups and organizations build their own capacity. It also considers what leadership teams can do to guide their organization's longer-term direction and improve governance and it describes other financial management aspects such as building reserves that can be...
This book presents practical ways to build financial management capacity in an international development context (although much of it applies to any n...
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324,18 |
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Building Financial Management Capacity for NGOs and Community Organizations: A Practical Guide
ISBN: 9781853398254 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents practical ways to build financial management capacity in an international development context (although much of it applies to any non-profit organization). It describes good practice in the specific tasks of financial management - for example, planning and budgeting and financial controls. It gives examples of how groups and organizations build their own capacity.
Strengthening financial management capacity is key to achieving more effective organizations. With strong financial management capacity, the group or organization becomes more able to control its own... This book presents practical ways to build financial management capacity in an international development context (although much of it applies to any n...
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121,78 |
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Endangered Languages, Knowledge Systems and Belief Systems
ISBN: 9783034312325 / Angielski / Miękka / 153 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many of the world s 7000 documented language groups are endangered due to falling rates of language and culture transmission from one generation to the next. Some endangered language groups have been the focus of efforts to reverse patterns of linguistic and cultural loss, with variable success. This book presents case studies of endangered language groups from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Pacific (including Bisu, Iban, Iquito, Quechua, Wawa, Yi and sign languages) and of their associated knowledge and belief systems, to highlight the importance of preserving linguistic...
Many of the world s 7000 documented language groups are endangered due to falling rates of language and culture transmission from one generation to th...
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252,37 |
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Resettlement Policy in Large Development Projects
ISBN: 9780415749978 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hydropower generation by construction of large dams attracts considerable attention as a feasible renewable energy source to meet the power demand in Asian cities. However, large development projects cause involuntary resettlement. Of the world's forty to eighty million resettlers, many resettlers have been unable to rebuild their livelihood after relocation and have become impoverished. This book uniquely explores the long-term impacts of displacement and resettlement. It shows that long-term post-project evaluation is necessary to assess the rehabilitation and livelihood... Hydropower generation by construction of large dams attracts considerable attention as a feasible renewable energy source to meet the power demand ... |
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Observations and Solutions ? The Barbados Experience: Suggestions for Improving Barbados
ISBN: 9781492809302 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by a prolific writer and commentator on social issues affecting Barbados, this book contains intriguing articles with feasible solutions that were published in the local newspapers between 2009 and 2013. The concise and reader friendly articles provide interesting reading with feasible solutions for other countries with societies along a similar developmental path.
Written by a prolific writer and commentator on social issues affecting Barbados, this book contains intriguing articles with feasible solutions that ...
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48,03 |
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Global Variations in the Political and Social Economy of Care: Worlds Apart
ISBN: 9780415754552 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Care work, both paid and unpaid, contributes to well-being, social development and economic growth. But the costs of providing care are unequally borne across gender and social class. Feminist scholarship on the gendered construction of welfare provisioning and welfare regimes has produced a conceptually strong and empirically grounded analysis of care, reinforcing the necessity of rethinking the distinctions between "the public" and "the private" as well as the links between them. Yet this analysis, premised on post-industrial contexts, does not travel easily to other parts of the world.... Care work, both paid and unpaid, contributes to well-being, social development and economic growth. But the costs of providing care are unequally b... |
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273,66 |
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Africa's Information Revolution: Technical Regimes and Production Networks in South Africa and Tanzania
ISBN: 9781118751336 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Africa's Information Revolution was recently announced as the 2016 prizewinner of the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences - congratulations to the authors James T. Murphy and Padraig Carmody Africa's Information Revolution presents an in-depth examination of the development and economic geographies accompanying the rapid diffusion of new ICTs in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Africa's Information Revolution was recently announced as the 2016 prizewinner of the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences - congra... |
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128,57 |
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Africa's Information Revolution: Technical Regimes and Production Networks in South Africa and Tanzania
ISBN: 9781118751329 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Africa's Information Revolution was recently announced as the 2016 prizewinner of the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences - congratulations to the authors James T. Murphy and Padraig Carmody Africa's Information Revolution presents an in-depth examination of the development and economic geographies accompanying the rapid diffusion of new ICTs in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Africa's Information Revolution was recently announced as the 2016 prizewinner of the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences - congra... |
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308,70 |
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Indigenous Discourses on Knowledge and Development in Africa
ISBN: 9780415703369 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. African social development is often explained from outsider perspectives that are mainly European and Euro-American, leaving African indigenous discourses and ways of knowing and doing absent from discussions and debates on knowledge and development. This book is intended to present Africanist indigenous voices in current debates on economic, educational, political and social development in Africa. The authors and contributors to the volume present bold and timely ideas and scholarship for defining Africa through its challenges, possible policy formations, planning and implementation at the...
African social development is often explained from outsider perspectives that are mainly European and Euro-American, leaving African indigenous discou...
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733,16 |
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Padre!: A Place Whose Rules Rearrange Your Own
ISBN: 9780989726603 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Described as 'that missing voice from Generation X' by Roger Muntu from Voice of America, Raven fashions you front row seats to the ride of a lifetime. She is a cultural, nonfictionist tyrannosaurus rex and her narration of the lives of Ivoiriens during her 2 years living in Cote d'Ivoire, West Africa as a Peace Corps Volunteer makes you fall in love with this story and laugh out loud when you least expect it. How do Ivoiriens define color, class, gender, sexuality, religion, and more, differently than you or I do? "Padre " will enthrall you, surprise you, entertain you, and give you a...
Described as 'that missing voice from Generation X' by Roger Muntu from Voice of America, Raven fashions you front row seats to the ride of a lifetime...
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76,19 |
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Healthcare Management Strategy, Communication, and Development Challenges and Solutions in Developing Countries
ISBN: 9780739185667 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Healthcare Management Strategy, Communication, and Development Challenges and Solutions in Developing Countries analyzes the ways in which health services, public health administration, and healthcare policies are managed in developing countries and how intercultural, intergroup, and mass communication practices are weakening those efforts. If developing countries are to reach their development goals, their leaders must have a firm understanding of the impact of infectious diseases on their people and take prompt action to fix socioeconomic issues arising from the problems associated with...
Healthcare Management Strategy, Communication, and Development Challenges and Solutions in Developing Countries analyzes the ways in which health serv...
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498,55 |
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Poverty Reduction - An Effective Means of Population Control: Theory, Evidence and Policy
ISBN: 9780754647287 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book contends that high fertility is rational in that it achieves short term economic benefit and long term old age-support for families. Wider macroeconomic effects are not the concern of the individual family. This means that the fertility choices of the poor are not a result of ignorance. The objective of this book is to drive home the fact that it is poverty that is responsible for high fertility and that until the problem of poverty is effectively dealt with the problem of high fertility will continue to persist. The book concludes with a series of policy recommendations for the...
This book contends that high fertility is rational in that it achieves short term economic benefit and long term old age-support for families. Wider m...
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439,85 |
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Low-Cost Toilet Options - A Catalogue: Social Marketing for Urban Sanitation
ISBN: 9781843800750 / Angielski / Miękka / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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152,27 |
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Creativity and Culture in Greater China: The Role of Government, Individuals and Groups
ISBN: 9781626430082 / Angielski / Miękka / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This publication unveils creative ideas on knowledge transfer from historical references to commercialization of cultural products. It adopts multidisciplinary, cross cultural, and experimental approaches to study the cultural industries, including art, music, popular culture, psychology, entrepreneurship, and economic studies. These scholarly thoughts and ideas were presented in the two conferences held at the Hong Kong Institute of Education in the summer of 2013. The chapters critically evaluate the current situation of the cultural industries and review the underlying relationships... This publication unveils creative ideas on knowledge transfer from historical references to commercialization of cultural products. It adopts multi... |
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219,95 |
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Global Management, Local Resistances: Theoretical Discussion and Empirical Case Studies
ISBN: 9780415732208 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book originates from a research project involving extensive collection and analysis of primary and secondary materials (scholarly literature, statistical data, and interviews with key actors) on global management and local resistances in all major world regions during the last years. It seeks to assess the overall management situation in the world, looking at the world as a social system where some countries act as winners of socioeconomic globalization, others as losers, and some as both. Offering analytical and comparative insights at the global level, this book will be useful for...
This book originates from a research project involving extensive collection and analysis of primary and secondary materials (scholarly literature, sta...
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488,78 |
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Inclusive Urbanization: Rethinking Policy, Practice and Research in the Age of Climate Change
ISBN: 9780415856010 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do we include and represent all people in cities? As the world rapidly urbanizes, and climate change creates global winners and losers, understanding how to design cities that provide for all their citizens is of the utmost importance. Inclusive Urbanization attempts to not only provide meaningful, practical guidance to urban designers, managers, and local actors, but also create a definition of inclusion that incorporates strategies bigger than the welfare state, and tactics that bring local actors and the state into meaningful dialogue. Written by a team of experienced academics,...
How do we include and represent all people in cities? As the world rapidly urbanizes, and climate change creates global winners and losers, understand...
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928,67 |
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