Resources

This is a report on how gold mining companies are fighting HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

Coal isn't good news for most environmentalists: its burning contribution to the "greenhouse effect" and acid rain generation is considered unacceptable - to the point that some NGO's (non-governmental organisations) have called for a global ban on coal mining, while at least one British high street bank (the Cooperative) refuses to accept investment from - or into - coal production companies, on "ethical" grounds.

This action research project investigates how the empowerment of women within a mine-affected community can contribute to the development of sustainable local livelihoods. The research aims to test the hypothesis that women's empowerment is the key to wider community empowerment and the creation of sustainable livelihoods in mine-affected communities. The results of the research will contribute to the formulation of better strategies or models of good practice for the management of 'community affairs' by mining companies operating in Indonesia and other developing countries of the Asia Pacific region.

The main focus of this analysis is the economic impacts of the KALAHI-CIDSS project. It looks at the costs and benefits of seven major subproject (SP) categories that cover 1,175 completed and ongoing subprojects (e.g., domestic water supply [both pump and gravity], roads construction and improvement, elementary school buildings, barangay health centers, and day care centers). These seven major categories accounted for 82 percent of total subproject costs.

The sourcebook is a documentation of various tools and methods developed in the course of doing CBCRM as effectively and efficiently employed by field practitioners in the Philippines, Indonesia, India and other Asian countries. The main section of the sourcebook is the step-by-step description of various participatory methods field tested by the authors and their organizations. A simple outline was devised for most of the topics to include the definition, purpose, materials, suggested approach, outputs, strengths, weaknesses and variations. The sourcebook is designed for use by people working directly with coastal communities to help strengthen their capability to manage, protect and develop their local resources.

The model for understanding and operationalizing an empowerment approach to development presented in this volume is simple. The book translates a long-standing academic discourse on structure and agency into an actionable framework that can, in practice, help change power relations and in turn reduce poverty. Using the concepts of asset-based agency and institution-based opportunity structure, this empowerment framework can be applied across dimensions of both action and analysis.

The United Nations University's Project on Transnationalization or Nation-Building in Africa (1982-1986) was undertaken by a network of African scholars under the co-ordination of Samir Amin. The purpose of the Project was to study the possibilities of and constraints on national autocentric development of African countries in the context of the world-system into which they have been integrated. Since the 1970s the world-system has been in a crisis of a severity and complexity unprecedented since the end of the Second World War; the Project examines the impact of this contemporary crisis on the political, economic and cultural situation of Africa today. Focusing on the complex relationship between transnationalization (namely, the dynamics of the world-system) and nation-building, which is seen as a precondition for national development, the Project explores a wide range of problems besetting Africa today and outlines possible alternatives to the prevailing development models which have proved to be inadequate.

This proposal is aimed at poverty alleviation in northern part of the Province of Central Kalimantan in Indonesia through the development of sustainable livelihoods including artisanal small scale mining (ASM).