" This document offers an excellent explanation of the concept of empowerment and
develops a very useful framework for disentangling and clarifying the concept. It is both …

Praise for the First Edition:" It is a guide of vital importance to researchers, trainers and
extension workers, especially those collaborating with communities in developing …

This article presents an overview of the emergence of sustainability themes in
communication for development and argues that there is an urgent need for a framework of …

Over the last few years a shift has taken place in the aid instruments advocated for low-
income countries, characterised by a conversion from project to more programme-oriented …

Over the past decade there has been an increasingly receptive audience for participatory
and qualitative research methods by policy makers, development practitioners and …

It is virtually undisputed that poverty is multi-dimensional. However,'economic'or monetary
measures of poverty still maintain a higher status in key development indicators and policy …

Abstract The Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (prsp) initiative came out of the 1999
Cologne annual meeting of the G-7 governments, when the leaders of the industrialised …

This paper discusses the measurement of poverty and well-being. A historical overview is
given of the last fifty years. This is followed by discussion of three groupings of indicators …

Commonsense says that monitoring systems should be able to provide feedback that can
help correct ineffective actions. But practice shows that when dealing with complex rural …

This article explores the links between conceptions of well-being, the way these are
operationalized in empirical research, the knowledge produced and the policy process. The …