Today, the development of many rural communities in the Ashanti Region of Ghana is to a considera... more Today, the development of many rural communities in the Ashanti Region of Ghana is to a considerable extent being supported by migrants. In spite of the wealth of publications about migrant remittances and community development, few studies have investigated the processes that take place in the communities where the migrant support arrives and that can influence successful involvement of migrants in community development. Some exceptions that do pay more attention to this are Mohan (2006), Cotula and Toulmin (2004) and Akolongo (2005). However, much of the literature either describes the types of migrant support and the impact on communities, or focuses on the motivations and characteristics of senders (see e.g. Addison 2004, Levitt and Nyberg-Sorensen 2004, Higazi 2005, Loup 2005, Orozco 2005, World Bank 2006). This is regrettable since in policy circles there is growing interest in the prospects of involving migrants in development, so there is a need for more studies with evidenc...
This article presents the principles and findings of developing a new participatory assessment of... more This article presents the principles and findings of developing a new participatory assessment of development (PADev) evaluation approach that was codesigned with Dutch nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and northern and southern research institutes over a period of 4 years in the context of rural development in Ghana and Burkina Faso. Although participatory approaches in development evaluations have become widely accepted since the 1990s, the PADev approach is different by taking the principles of holism and local knowledge as starting points for its methodological elaboration. The PADev approach is found to have an added value for assessing the differentiated effects of development interventions across different subgroups in a community through intersubjectivity. Moreover, if PADev is taken up by a multitude of stakeholders, including the intended beneficiaries of development interventions and development stakeholders, it can contribute to a process of local history writing, kno...
Public-private partnerships have emerged in recent years as an important policy option to ensure ... more Public-private partnerships have emerged in recent years as an important policy option to ensure service provision in the water resources sector. However, there is very little analysis of past experience of partnerships between the public sector and various arms of the private sector: water companies, NGOs or even farmer groups. Further, there is limited conceptualisation of what is meant by partnerships between the public and private sectors. This paper draws on a study of watershed management in Haryana to analyse the evolution of public-private partnerships in natural resource management. The paper finds that the public sector has an important role to play in facilitating design of an institutional contract that clarifies water rights and rules for benefit sharing and conflict resolution. Interestingly, the paper finds that when a proper institutional structure is in place, well-endowed individuals with sufficient interest in a common pool good (like an irrigation system) may eme...
Migration—environment linkages are at the centre of media attention because of public concern abo... more Migration—environment linkages are at the centre of media attention because of public concern about climate change and a perceived “flooding” of migrants from less developed countries into more affluent parts of the world. In the past few years, a substantial body of conceptual literature about environmentally induced migration has evolved, but there is still a paucity of empirical work in this area. Moreover, the environmental causes of migration have been studied largely in isolation of the environmental consequences. In this paper we present an analysis of migration and vegetation dynamics for one country (Ghana) to assess four migration—environment linkages. On the one hand, we look at two environmental drivers of migration: environmental push and pull. On the other hand, we look at the environmental impact of migration on source and destination areas. Census data at the district level (N=110) are used to map domestic migration flows in Ghana, which are then related to vegetatio...
This paper discusses the particular and strategic roles, which migrants play in the development o... more This paper discusses the particular and strategic roles, which migrants play in the development of their country of origin, notably their rural "hometowns." It is based on a multi-sited, contemporaneous study in cultural economics that explores the influence of transnational ties between ...
... Document type, Book. Document finder, UvA-Linker. Use this url to link to this page: http://d... more ... Document type, Book. Document finder, UvA-Linker. Use this url to link to this page: http://dare.uva.nl/en/record/101027. ... Please send an e-mail to: dare@uva.nl, or a letter to: Bibliotheek van de Universiteit van Amsterdam, Dept. ...
To understand economic changes in pastoral societies, in response to population growth, resource ... more To understand economic changes in pastoral societies, in response to population growth, resource degradation, and changing economic and political contexts, it is important to apply a number of key concepts: TLU/capita, caloric terms of trade, and overall and commercial offtake rates being the most important o nes. This is illustrated with the outcome of four case studies in Kenya, done
... of Technology Housing, Urban and Mobility Studies OTB Housing systems; Sustainable Housing Tr... more ... of Technology Housing, Urban and Mobility Studies OTB Housing systems; Sustainable Housing Transformations ... two research groups: LGH: Landscape functioning, Geocomputation and Hydrology and CFG: Coastal Dynamics, Fluvial Systems and Global Change. ...
Today, the development of many rural communities in the Ashanti Region of Ghana is to a considera... more Today, the development of many rural communities in the Ashanti Region of Ghana is to a considerable extent being supported by migrants. In spite of the wealth of publications about migrant remittances and community development, few studies have investigated the processes that take place in the communities where the migrant support arrives and that can influence successful involvement of migrants in community development. Some exceptions that do pay more attention to this are Mohan (2006), Cotula and Toulmin (2004) and Akolongo (2005). However, much of the literature either describes the types of migrant support and the impact on communities, or focuses on the motivations and characteristics of senders (see e.g. Addison 2004, Levitt and Nyberg-Sorensen 2004, Higazi 2005, Loup 2005, Orozco 2005, World Bank 2006). This is regrettable since in policy circles there is growing interest in the prospects of involving migrants in development, so there is a need for more studies with evidenc...
This article presents the principles and findings of developing a new participatory assessment of... more This article presents the principles and findings of developing a new participatory assessment of development (PADev) evaluation approach that was codesigned with Dutch nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and northern and southern research institutes over a period of 4 years in the context of rural development in Ghana and Burkina Faso. Although participatory approaches in development evaluations have become widely accepted since the 1990s, the PADev approach is different by taking the principles of holism and local knowledge as starting points for its methodological elaboration. The PADev approach is found to have an added value for assessing the differentiated effects of development interventions across different subgroups in a community through intersubjectivity. Moreover, if PADev is taken up by a multitude of stakeholders, including the intended beneficiaries of development interventions and development stakeholders, it can contribute to a process of local history writing, kno...
Public-private partnerships have emerged in recent years as an important policy option to ensure ... more Public-private partnerships have emerged in recent years as an important policy option to ensure service provision in the water resources sector. However, there is very little analysis of past experience of partnerships between the public sector and various arms of the private sector: water companies, NGOs or even farmer groups. Further, there is limited conceptualisation of what is meant by partnerships between the public and private sectors. This paper draws on a study of watershed management in Haryana to analyse the evolution of public-private partnerships in natural resource management. The paper finds that the public sector has an important role to play in facilitating design of an institutional contract that clarifies water rights and rules for benefit sharing and conflict resolution. Interestingly, the paper finds that when a proper institutional structure is in place, well-endowed individuals with sufficient interest in a common pool good (like an irrigation system) may eme...
Migration—environment linkages are at the centre of media attention because of public concern abo... more Migration—environment linkages are at the centre of media attention because of public concern about climate change and a perceived “flooding” of migrants from less developed countries into more affluent parts of the world. In the past few years, a substantial body of conceptual literature about environmentally induced migration has evolved, but there is still a paucity of empirical work in this area. Moreover, the environmental causes of migration have been studied largely in isolation of the environmental consequences. In this paper we present an analysis of migration and vegetation dynamics for one country (Ghana) to assess four migration—environment linkages. On the one hand, we look at two environmental drivers of migration: environmental push and pull. On the other hand, we look at the environmental impact of migration on source and destination areas. Census data at the district level (N=110) are used to map domestic migration flows in Ghana, which are then related to vegetatio...
This paper discusses the particular and strategic roles, which migrants play in the development o... more This paper discusses the particular and strategic roles, which migrants play in the development of their country of origin, notably their rural "hometowns." It is based on a multi-sited, contemporaneous study in cultural economics that explores the influence of transnational ties between ...
... Document type, Book. Document finder, UvA-Linker. Use this url to link to this page: http://d... more ... Document type, Book. Document finder, UvA-Linker. Use this url to link to this page: http://dare.uva.nl/en/record/101027. ... Please send an e-mail to: dare@uva.nl, or a letter to: Bibliotheek van de Universiteit van Amsterdam, Dept. ...
To understand economic changes in pastoral societies, in response to population growth, resource ... more To understand economic changes in pastoral societies, in response to population growth, resource degradation, and changing economic and political contexts, it is important to apply a number of key concepts: TLU/capita, caloric terms of trade, and overall and commercial offtake rates being the most important o nes. This is illustrated with the outcome of four case studies in Kenya, done
... of Technology Housing, Urban and Mobility Studies OTB Housing systems; Sustainable Housing Tr... more ... of Technology Housing, Urban and Mobility Studies OTB Housing systems; Sustainable Housing Transformations ... two research groups: LGH: Landscape functioning, Geocomputation and Hydrology and CFG: Coastal Dynamics, Fluvial Systems and Global Change. ...
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