Notes from the Field #1:
An initial study of the medical lore and practices of extremely poor people in Chennai, India. In spite of the fact that they live in a modern country where the highest level of medical care is available, these people cannot access it.
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#1 Notes from the Field: The Slum Dwellers of Chennai: Indigenous Health Practices
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#2 Notes from the Field: Sustainable Development: Solutions from Kalimantan
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Notes from the Field #2
Our main focus is on supporting the government bottom-up participatory planning mechanism and process. With this approach we think we can achieve meaningful and lasting development solutions.
Our main focus is on supporting the government bottom-up participatory planning mechanism and process. With this approach we think we can achieve meaningful and lasting development solutions.
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#3 Notes from the Field: Human Rights Education Program in Karnataka
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Education
Notes from the Field #3
The Human Rights Program trains new teachers in human rights education.
The Human Rights Program trains new teachers in human rights education.
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#4 Notes du Terrain: La condition féminine dans la région de Kingantoko
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Health
Notes from the Field 4 : Gender Study in Kingantoko and Surrounding Area. In French.
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Download PDF version: French | English
#4 Notes from the Field: Gender Study in Kingantoko and Surrounding Area
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Health
Notes from the Field #4:
Charlotte Ndona and the Susila Dharma DR Congo team studied the forces that shape the lives of women in seven villages in the Democratic Republic of Congo. These included the constraints put on them by a lack of education, early and frequent pregnancy and the long distance each one has to walk to to carry water, food and firewood back to their families every day. They studied the social pressures on, the cultural economic situation and legal status of, and the choices available to these women.
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Charlotte Ndona and the Susila Dharma DR Congo team studied the forces that shape the lives of women in seven villages in the Democratic Republic of Congo. These included the constraints put on them by a lack of education, early and frequent pregnancy and the long distance each one has to walk to to carry water, food and firewood back to their families every day. They studied the social pressures on, the cultural economic situation and legal status of, and the choices available to these women.
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2003 Participatory Rural Analysis (PRA) how to become a True Believer
Participatory Rural Analysis (PRA) is a method for empowering rural or other low tech communities by giving them the tools to analyze their own communities. Such analysis is often much more accurate and insightful than that done by outside professionals from the academic world. The process of analysis also provides local villages and other communities with the basis they need to interact effectively with government and other outside business and institutional organisations.
2007 Article: A French Woman in Ecuador
Mathilde Dybowsky spent five weeks volunteering at Asociación Vivir in Ecuador during the summer of 2007.
2008 A community guide to environmental health
A comprehensive, illustrated guide for activists, community leaders, development workers, and health promoters with examples, "how-to" plans, and background information on a wide range of environmental issues affecting people in both village and urban settings.
2008 Governance and Development Project Report
To make progress towards poverty reduction and sustainable
development we must understand how local, regional and
international decision-making serve the people. The Governance and Development project explored grassroots
development initiatives and how they can generate more inclusive and
participatory decision-making processes as well as governance structures and
mechanisms.
2008 Painting Portraits of the Homeless
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Promotion and Fundraising
Elfrida Schragen of Victoria, British Colombia in Canada, was inspired to create a project 2006-2008 to paint portraits of homeless people . She tries to capture “the dignity and humanity” of her subjects. All the proceeds from the sale of these paintings was used for the construction of a 45- bed Center for homeless people called "Our Place." The project was completed in November 2008 and raised $24,000 Canadian for the Center which is now fully operational.
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2008 Puppeteers Without Borders in Bosnia
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SD Project Reports,
Education
Participants from the Balkan countries, dedicated to theatre, and to the social and cultural fabric of Bosnian society, took part in a conference called “Mask, Object, Puppet: A Powerful Means of Theatrical Expression. Erica Sapir, of Puppeteers Without Borders gave a presentation called, “Using puppetry in education with special emphasis on Non Violent Communication.”
2008 Rebuilding Sustainable Communities for Children and their Families after Disasters
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Disaster Relief
“…discussions centered around notions of
resilience… It was not always clear what this meant or looked like. [As if] disaster events are
in some way inevitable… and that
the way to respond to disaster is to find a way to “bounce back.” There
is an assumption that disasters, themselves, are politically
neutral events.”
2008 SD Education Workshop Report, Colombia
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Conference Reports,
Education
At the Pan-American Gathering in Amanecer, Colombia, a Subud Educators' Workshop was held on July 27 and 28, 2008.
2008 UN - World Food Security — Fact Sheet
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United Nations,
Environment
High level conference, sponsored by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO). A fact-sheet created by Myra Margolin and Solen Gratiet.
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2009-04 : Lessons from Doctors without Borders
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Health
In January 2009 Lusijah Marx, Luther Schutz, and Wendy Neal traveled to the South African township of Khayelitsha to learn from the experience of Doctors without Borders in creating the most effective and efficient use of human resources to deliver quality health care to empoverished victims of HIV/AIDS
2009-04 : Navigating the UN in Geneva
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Human Rights,
United Nations
Between the 16th and 27th March 2009, Solen Lees Gratiet attended the
Advanced Geneva Training Course in Human Rights Law and Advocacy at the
International Service for Human Rights. Here is her report of that experience.
2009-04 : UN-HRC Freedom of Religion or Belief
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Human Rights
Amalia Rasheed of Spain, reports on the UN-HRC session in Geneva on Freedom of Religion or Belief, held March 12, 2009.
2009-04 : UN-HRC The Right to Food
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United Nations,
Human Rights
Amalia Rasheed of Spain reports on the UN-HRC session held in Geneva on the Right to Food.
2009-04 : UN-HRC The rights of the Child
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Human Rights
Amalia Rasheed of Spain reports on the UN Human Rights Council sessions in Geneva on The Rights of the Child, March 2009.
2009-04 — UN Durban Review Conference
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Human Rights
Katherine Carré reports on a UN review of progress in combating racism since the UN Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance held in Durban, South Africa, in 2001.
Flood in desert devastates Ghardaïa, Algeria
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Articles
On the day of the celebration of the Aïd el Fitr (Idul Fitri), very
strong flooding took place in all the towns of the valley of the oued
(river) Mzab, of which Ghardaïa is the capital city, at around 600 km
south of Algiers in the middle of the Sahara desert.
How to take effective Photographs
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Promotion and Fundraising
Raphael Bate of SD France prepared an article about the elements will help you take photos
that will tell the story of your project and promote your work through
print, e-mail and the internet.
Les inondations a Ghardaïa, Alger
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Articles
Le jour de la fête de l'Aïd el Fitr (Idul Fitri), de très fortes
inondations ont eu lieu dans toutes les villes de la vallée de l'oued
Mzab, dont la capitale est Ghardaïa, à environ 600 km au sud d'Alger.
Photographs and images for email and the web
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Promotion and Fundraising
There are several important facts that you should know about digital images
so that once you have taken a nice picture it remains usable for
print, the web, and emailing.
Social Enterprise: A new model for poverty reduction and employment generation
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Articles,
Community Development
Initiatives in post-communist states often focus on bolstering the private sector or the state, ignoring organizations that combine for-profit activities with social aims. This report suggests ways to promote social enterprises, to make the legal and political environments more favourable, to support social enterprises, and to provide ‘seed money’ and small grants to sustain social enterprise.