Why are Kenyan farmers dissatisfied with their contracts for finger-millet farming? S. Wagura Ndiritu considers the case of Usomi Agriculture:
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How best to combine climate-change projections and targeted and effective local measures to combat climate change? Yoko Makita looks at Japan's measures to assist Timor-Leste: doi.org/10.1080/096145…

The latest issue of Development in Practice Journal (DiP) is now out. It is on development actors and organisations and their roles, participation, and communication in various aspects of global development. Read the editorial here: doi.org/10.1080/096145…

Just out in DiP: 'why repatriation from Bangladesh to Myanmar is (nigh) impossible': Anthony Ware and Costas Laoutides discuss the Rohingya repatriation myth: doi.org/10.1080/096145…

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📢New open access publication 'The peace dilemma in the triple nexus: challenges and opportunities for the humanitarian–development–peace approach' at Development in Practice

#Nexus #humanitarian #development #peace #TripleNexus #HDPnexus
ISS, The Hague Humanitarian Studies Centre European Research Council (ERC)

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It's been an absolute joy to work on this with the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development dream team led by Nusrat Jahan and Imran Matin. Across diverse papers, we explore many different dimensions to BRAC's contributions to development thinking and practice over the past 50 years. Something for everyone!

Summer Brown, Rodrigo (Rod) Mena, & Sylvia Brown examine the addition of peace as an objective to the humanitarian–development approach, finding that 'there is still some work to be done to get the most out of the triple nexus approach': doi.org/10.1080/096145…
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Just out now: The latest issue of DiP is a special issue on #BRAC and its 50 years of work (eds Nicola Banks, Nusrat Jahan and Imran Matin). Read the introduction to the issue here: doi.org/10.1080/096145…
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The first article in our forthcoming special issue ' #Pracademics as Change Agents' has now been published. Karolina Kluczewska discusses her work with local NGOs in Tajikistan: doi.org/10.1080/096145…
(eds. Alan Fowler, Angela Crack, Faina Lucero Diola,
Ines Pousadela, Willem Elbers)

Looking forward to this forthcoming Special Issue on 'practitioners & academics consciously positioning themselves and acting as social change agents' - edited by Alan Fowler, Angela Crack, Faina Lucero Diola Ines Pousadela, Willem Elbers. This article open access for a couple of months

Thank you so much. I am truly honoured to have received this prize. It’s a huge encouragement to do more in this area. Special thanks to the DiP editorial team and my co-authors, Valentina Baú and Dr. Paul Ryder.

Announcing the forthcoming 'Rethinking Gender in Development Practice', eds Emily Finlay, Patrick kilby, Rochelle Spencer, Joyce Wu (Routledge): seminal pieces from DiP on #GenderAndDevelopment :
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We are excited to announce Bhupesh Joshi (et al.) as the winner of our 2023 HDR Prize in Development Studies for 'Looking beyond organisational approaches to advance communication practice: an examination of development projects in India':
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Congratulations to our own Dr Margarita Garfias for receiving the Development in Practice's 2023 Practitioner and Early Career Researcher Prize for the paper 'Violence against women in Corregidora, Mexico: the disconnect between women’s experiences and stakeholders’ views'.

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We are fast approaching the deadline for submissions to our Special Issue on the 50-year anniversary of the call for a New International Economic Order, edited by Susan Engel and Matthew Mabefam : think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues…

What roles do women play in sustainable water management in Africa? Soufiane Haddout et al. discuss how women are 'the custodians of local knowledge [...] and the voices of change in advocating for water rights and environmental sustainability':
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'The feminist traditions underpinning GAD ... have side-lined issues of race.' Althea-Maria Rivas & Navtej K. Purewal's article is the latest in our forthcoming special issue on the Future of Teaching Gender and Development (eds Dr Mirna Guha , Rishita Nandagiri (rishie.bsky.social), & Rebecca Gordon):
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Congratulations to the winners of one of our 2023 Practitioner and EC Researcher Prizes:
Margarita Garfias Royo et al. for the article 'Violence against women in Corregidora, Mexico: the disconnect between women's experiences and stakeholders' views': doi.org/10.1080/096145…

Congratulations to the winners of one of our 2023 Practitioner and EC Researcher Prizes:
Osama Risheq et al. for 'Depoliticised humanitarianism: critiquing the effectiveness of international aid for the Bedouin communities in the Jerusalem periphery': doi.org/10.1080/096145…