{"title":"Necessary complexity in the Anthropocene: new approaches in socio-ecological systems thinking, Do No Harm, and fragility integration","authors":"S. Darwish, Ruth Rhoads Allen, Maureen Lempke","doi":"10.1080/09614524.2023.2219042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2023.2219042","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The links between climate change, fragility, and conflict have received growing attention over the past decade. Yet, the theory and analysis underlying conflict-sensitive practice has not figured significantly in these developments, thus limiting effective action and policy. While there is pressing need for climate adaptation efforts, climate change-related disaster response, and low-carbon development to leverage local capacities for peace and avoid exacerbating conflict dynamics, existing conflict sensitivity frameworks (a) lack sufficient emphasis on action and (b) struggle to incorporate the complex, systemic interactions among ecologies, societal conflict, and aid, or other efforts to address fragility. This paper draws on complexity-informed approaches that more directly and practically integrate socio-ecological systems thinking into urgently needed conflict-informed action. Specifically, the paper establishes the basis for integrating CDA Collaborative Learning Projects’ systems-based Reflecting on Peace Practice (RPP) approach and Do No Harm (DNH) framework for accountable analysis and action amidst conflict, and reframing the key analytical categories of Connectors and Dividers to Resilience and Vulnerabilities.","PeriodicalId":47576,"journal":{"name":"Development in Practice","volume":"33 1","pages":"534 - 547"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48083312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Breaking gender barriers in STEM education for achieving the SDG of quality education in Bangladesh","authors":"N. Islam, Amporn Jirattikorn","doi":"10.1080/09614524.2023.2229965","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2023.2229965","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47576,"journal":{"name":"Development in Practice","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42393815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Determinants of commercial farmers’ willingness to mentor emerging farmers in South African land reform","authors":"S. Zantsi, Kandas Cloete","doi":"10.1080/09614524.2023.2224947","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2023.2224947","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT To address the challenge posed by a lack of commercial farming skills among beneficiaries of redistributed farms, the South African Government has introduced a mentorship program, by which established commercial farmers share expertise with newly settled farmers. However, commercial farmers’ willingness to mentor emerging farmers, and the determinants of their willingness at a national level, are not explicitly known. This article attempts to contribute in this regard by implementing a binary logistic regression model, preceded by descriptive statistics, to a sample of 475 commercial farmers. Our findings show that a majority (76 per cent) of commercial farmers are willing to mentor emerging farmers. Younger farmers with higher levels of education are most likely to show willingness to mentor. Farm characteristics, such as high turnover and low perceived threat regarding a “lack of dependable labour” also contribute to the willingness to mentor. Therefore, a farmer and his or her farm performance should be key attributes in the criteria for mentor selection.","PeriodicalId":47576,"journal":{"name":"Development in Practice","volume":"33 1","pages":"825 - 840"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48022874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perceptions of sport and women among athletes at a South Sudan national sport event","authors":"Mitsuaki Furukawa","doi":"10.1080/09614524.2023.2218070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2023.2218070","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47576,"journal":{"name":"Development in Practice","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45323980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conflict-sensitive research: bringing research ethics into practice","authors":"Ursina Bentele, Metka Herzog","doi":"10.1080/09614524.2023.2213860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2023.2213860","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Despite increased attention to research ethics and attempts to counter power imbalances in North-South research partnerships, research in conflict contexts is still not fair and equitable. We argue that conflict sensitivity could conceptually and practically contribute towards this goal. A conflict sensitive research approach includes collaborating with locally-based practitioners in the research design, data collection, analysis and outreach. This would make knowledge production in conflict contexts more ethical, relevant and beneficial to everyone involved.","PeriodicalId":47576,"journal":{"name":"Development in Practice","volume":"33 1","pages":"656 - 662"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43868076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Maredia, D. Hashini, Galhena Dissanayake, R. Freed, Sunil Madan, G. Mikunthan, Adrienne Attorp, Naveen Patidar, Helga Blanco-Metzler Raja, Rajeswari Meka, J. Gonsalves
{"title":"Building sustainable, resilient, and nutritionally enhanced local food systems through home gardens in developing countries","authors":"K. Maredia, D. Hashini, Galhena Dissanayake, R. Freed, Sunil Madan, G. Mikunthan, Adrienne Attorp, Naveen Patidar, Helga Blanco-Metzler Raja, Rajeswari Meka, J. Gonsalves","doi":"10.1080/09614524.2023.2218068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2023.2218068","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Home gardens have been a part of local and global food systems since humans first began domesticating crops and have endured the test of time. They are commonly referred to as kitchen gardens, backyard gardens, garden patches, and garden beds and often have a local or cultural context. Home gardens vary from location to location in terms of organization, structure, size, and composition and are generally influenced by household resources and attributes, socioeconomic aspects, and cultural factors. International organizations and national, regional, and local governments, non-governmental organizations, and grassroots groups have been adopting and utilizing home gardening to reduce hunger and food insecurity and mitigate food risks from various crises and disasters. Drawing on case studies from various regions of the world, this article highlights experiences with home gardening through case studies and their impacts on targeted communities in various areas of the world. The case studies show that low resource use, adaptability to diverse conditions and situations, and resilience are key factors contributing to the widespread adoption of home gardens. Furthermore, they have been a particularly useful development strategy in crisis and post-crisis situations and in improving marginalized and vulnerable communities’ food and nutritional security. This review article summarizes the important contributions of home gardening projects from various countries and identifies major constraints and opportunities. It concludes with recommendations to policy-makers, researchers, development practitioners and other relevant stakeholders to address those challenges.","PeriodicalId":47576,"journal":{"name":"Development in Practice","volume":"33 1","pages":"852 - 859"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42105368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Community health workers as rights defenders: the Mitanin experience in India","authors":"Suchi Pande","doi":"10.1080/09614524.2023.2213862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2023.2213862","url":null,"abstract":"Women community health workers from a government run programme in India have been uncommonly successful in combining rights-based advocacy (accountability to their communities) with (nominal) paid work on healthcare tasks by the state. Over two decades 70,000 indigenous women Mitanins or community health workers have advanced community health and gender rights of the broader communities they are part of, and their own labor rights. Being able to strategically advocate for both types of rights is an experience unmatched by their global counterparts. This Note focuses on two elements of the Mitanin pre-emptive learning strategy, the movement-building approach of a government run programme to empower frontline community health workers , and the role of a hybrid agency in prioritising social mobilisation by these workers to improve healthcare delivery.","PeriodicalId":47576,"journal":{"name":"Development in Practice","volume":" 31","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41253547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Depoliticised humanitarianism: critiquing the effectiveness of international aid for the Bedouin communities in the Jerusalem periphery","authors":"Osama Risheq, Tamara Tamimi, Raghad Adwan, Munir Nuseibah","doi":"10.1080/09614524.2023.2215968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2023.2215968","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Since the establishment of the Palestinian Authority, Palestine has been the subject and recipient of significant humanitarian and development aid. This article critiques the humanitarian and developmental assistance provided by major donors in Palestine, with a particular focus on the E-1 area in the central West Bank, highlighting its depoliticisation and the misdiagnosis of the context of Palestine as a post-conflict situation, and showing how aid has had an adverse effect on Palestinians. This article, drawing on the Do No Harm approach, argues that aid has not only been ineffective in achieving its stated goals, but has also harmed Palestinians by entrenching the occupation and advancing settler colonialism.","PeriodicalId":47576,"journal":{"name":"Development in Practice","volume":"33 1","pages":"572 - 583"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41746753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"NGO reflections on putting the youth first: improving youth participation in development practice","authors":"A. Douglas","doi":"10.1080/09614524.2023.2213861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2023.2213861","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT There are 1.21 billion young people globally, and the majority are living in the Global South. Empowering young people to participate in development decision-making can make young people feel engaged, and enables programs to more effectively meet their needs. This qualitative study explores challenges and approaches to facilitating youth participation through interviews with a small sample of NGO practitioners. Recommendations for improving youth participation, that emerged from the interviews, include that NGOs should have constructive dialogue with donors around the value of youth participation, take more flexible and creative approaches, and formalise strategies that prioritise participation.","PeriodicalId":47576,"journal":{"name":"Development in Practice","volume":"33 1","pages":"700 - 712"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42819197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}