Development in Practice

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Volume 35, issue 3, 2025

Correction pp. I-I

The Editors

Editorial: issue 35.3 pp. 303-304

Emily Finlay

Addressing gender-based violence through social protection: a scoping review pp. 305-320

Tara Patricia Cookson, Lorena Fuentes and Jennifer Bitterly

A qualitative analysis of derogatory labels used against persons with disabilities in Kashmir pp. 321-333

Sarafraz Ahmad, Zahid Ahmad Lone and Kulsum Ahad

Gendered responsibilities of household members in securing livelihoods through mat making in the Barak Valley, Assam pp. 334-346

Chayan Deb

Experiences of women artisans in Ghana’s informal construction sector: the COVID-19 aftermath and its implications pp. 347-358

Emefa Tonorgbevi Awuku and Micheal Sakyi-Darko

Socio-economic determinants of girls' higher education: empirical insights from the high-mountain Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan pp. 359-373

Iftikhar Ali, Mohsin Khan and Amjad Ali

Breaking barriers: exploring factors shaping women’s financial decision-making in Indian households pp. 374-385

Sangeeth Mathew Philip and Pragati Jain

Assessing the relationship between land ownership and the health care expenditure of rural women in Bangladesh pp. 386-397

Kazi Tanvir Mahmud, Jinat Hossain, Fahima Kabir and Robayet Ferdous Syed

Evaluating Rajasthan’s urban employment guarantee program: some key insights and concerns pp. 398-409

Krishna Priya Choragudi

Gender gap in rice productivity: micro-evidence from Myanmar pp. 410-429

Nandar Aye Chan, Orkhan Sariyev and Manfred Zeller

Lessons learnt from the localisation of WASH programs for those most overlooked in Cambodia pp. 430-445

Leandra Rhodes-Dicker, N. J. Brown and M. Currell

Local economic development for peacebuilding. The reincorporation of FARC’s former combatants in Agua Bonita, Colombia pp. 446-461

Carlos Madridejos Ornilla

Holiday hunger in India: experiences of food insecurity during the school summer holidays pp. 462-479

Lana Whittaker

Filming the environment: lessons from a climate change communication initiative in Kolkata schools pp. 480-492

Manoj Kumar Das and Subha Das Mollick

Towards just cities: an environmental justice analysis of Aligarh, India pp. 493-514

Ubaid Sidique

Hidden politics in the UN Sustainable Development Goals pp. 515-516

Patrick Kilby

Volume 35, issue 2, 2025

Between worlds, beyond boundaries: understanding pracademic contributions to social change pp. 175-186

Inés M. Pousadela, Angela Crack, Alan Fowler, Willem Elbers and Faina Diola

Catalysts for change: pracademic roles and added value to social impact pp. 187-198

Willem Elbers

The translatory role of community-based pracademics in global social development pp. 199-204

David Moxley

Pracademics as agents of change: locating one in the South African agricultural economics discipline pp. 205-212

Siphe Zantsi and Mamakie Lungwana

Balancing early-career paths as pracademics: a collaborative autoethnography study in China pp. 213-223

Ke Lu and Shiqi Peng

Muslim pracademics as double brokers: a faith-sensitive, intersectional framework for understanding pracademics’ experiences and positionalities pp. 224-237

Jennifer Philippa Eggert and Behar Sadriu

Weaving the space between: navigating identities and institutions as a third-sector pracademic pp. 238-243

Michele Fugiel Gartner

Navigating research, development practice, and activism as a transnational pracademic pp. 244-249

Jae-Eun Noh

Pracademics in international and development cooperation. Case studies from China and the Middle East region pp. 250-263

Berthold Kuhn

A pracademic framework to strengthen higher education engagement in Ecuador pp. 264-269

Maria del Carmen Zenck Huerta and José Daniel Merchán Naranjo

Early career pracademics in international development: satisfactions and challenges pp. 270-277

Karolina Kluczewska

Shifting pracademic roles and identities: feminist experiences from Latin America pp. 278-291

Inés M. Pousadela

Adventures in the multiverse: a collective experience of pracademia pp. 292-302

Lisa Denney, Elisabeth Jackson, Chris Roche, Chris Adams, Danielle Campbell, Eileen Christou, Aidan Craney, Alex Gyles, Allan Illingworth and Ujjwal Krishna

Volume 35, issue 1, 2025

Thank you to Development in Practice peer reviewers pp. I-IV

The Editors

Editorial: issue 35.1 pp. 1-2

Emily Finlay

Climate change perception and adaptation among farmers in the mountains of Western Karakoram, Pakistan pp. 3-20

Maria Sassi, Yousuf Ali and Iftikhar Ali

Livelihood diversification and household economic well-being in rural Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India pp. 21-38

Hemant Patidar, Satheesh Chothodi, Rahul Mishra and Kundan Parmar

Agricultural knowledge and youth participation in agriculture and agribusiness in an African context pp. 39-59

Peter Asare-Nuamah, Ebo Botchway, Christopher Dick-Sagoe, Joycelyn Oteng Asamoah, Umar Kabanda and Mavis Anane-Aboagye

One Tambon One Product (OTOP) implementation by the Thai Government pp. 60-73

Viritpol Ponark and Mokbul Morshed Ahmad

#COVIDSOS: health support during the second wave of COVID-19 in India pp. 74-85

Debipreeta Rahut

Closing the climate information gap? NGO intermediaries in climate information services in Samburu, Kenya pp. 86-100

Alphonce Agola Mollo, Iben Nathan and Winnie V. Mitullah

Driving transformation: the role of institutions in shaping ecological farming adoption in Kiambu County, Kenya pp. 101-116

Emma Wangari Kamau, Raphael Gitau and Hillary K. Bett

Overcoming the concept of pockets of poverty: the case of Jequitinhonha Valley in Brazil pp. 117-126

Beni Trojbicz

Poverty reduction and the sustainable development goals: a bibliometric study focused on the Global South pp. 127-151

Amjed Hameed Majeed, Alhamzah F. Abbas, Kadhim Ghaffar Kadhim and Mohammed Farhan Kzar

Innovation platforms in practice: a conceptual framework pp. 152-166

Erica Odera, Sebastian Galindo, Saskia Hendrickx, Adegbola Adesogan, Marjatta Eilitta and Brigitte A. Pfluger

Problems in reducing inequalities in Indonesia’s oil palm zones pp. 167-173

Bintar Mupiza and Chusak Wittayapak

Volume 34, issue 8, 2024

Correction pp. iii-iii

The Editors

Correction pp. iv-iv

The Editors

Correction pp. v-v

The Editors

Correction pp. vi-vi

The Editors

Correction pp. vii-vii

The Editors

Editorial pp. 947-948

Emily Finlay

Overcoming challenges and thriving as a new NGO – a case for institutional capacity building pp. 949-953

Thulani Dzinamarira, Edlight Bopoto, Tendai Mutiro, Itai Chitungo and Tafadzwa Dzinamarira

Feminist participatory action research to co-develop localised health promotion in Indonesia pp. 954-964

Najmah, Iwan Stia Budi, Indah Purnama Sari, Misnaniarti, Elvi Sunarsih, Kusnan, Novia Sri Anda Yani and Jenny Munro

Seeing like a donor: the unintended harms of rendering civil society legible pp. 965-976

Thu Thu Nwe Hlaing, Tamas Wells and Anne Décobert

“All were gaining knowledge from each other”: decolonial participatory research capacity-sharing for and by non-academics pp. 977-989

Jennifer Philippa Eggert, Zainab Chamoun and Sheku Anna Chundung

We don’t have government here: banditry and the polycrisis of governance in northwest Nigeria pp. 990-1005

Oluwole Ojewale

“RadioActive”: an exploration of the critical role of materiality in shaping participatory spaces pp. 1006-1018

Maria Cristina Gallegos and Marleen Buizer

The dual approach to climate change adaptation in official development assistance pp. 1019-1031

Yoko Makita

Integrating climate action into the Australian Volunteers Program pp. 1032-1047

Anna Gero, Tazrina Chowdhury, Jake Phelan, Lorraine Kershaw, Keren Winterford, Lafir Mohamed and Patricia Netzler-Lagaaia

Green financing for climate resilience and low-carbon development in Indonesia: viewpoints for the road ahead pp. 1048-1057

Ari Rakatama, Dinda Ayu Maharani, Dzulfian Syafrian and Fauziah Rizki Yuniarti

Involvement: A bidirectional perspective on participatory approaches for development and social change pp. 1058-1070

Paul Koomson

Rethinking ecofeminism: women’s voices in Indian environmentalism pp. 1071-1078

Thounaojam Somokanta

Volume 34, issue 7, 2024

Introduction: the future of teaching gender and development pp. 825-833

R. Gordon, M. Guha and R. Nandagiri

Teaching and learning feminisms with Pacific Islanders: an emotional journey pp. 834-846

Domenica Gisella Calabrò and Sonia Palmieri

Adaptive methodology and intellectual activism: teaching gender in Indonesian universities pp. 847-856

Miranda P. Tahalele and Ella S. Prihatini

Empowerment or alienation? Teaching gender and development in postcolonial contexts pp. 857-867

Sara N. Amin and Christian Girard

Unsettling settler-colonialism in Gender and Development: reflections from Aotearoa New Zealand pp. 868-880

Angela Wilton

Would teaching gender as core, not boutique, move us closer to the SDG gender equality goal? pp. 881-892

Jane Alver

Disrupting the gender and development impasse in university teaching and learning spaces pp. 893-909

Althea-Maria Rivas and Navtej K. Purewal

Intersectionality and participation as threshold concepts pp. 910-917

Joyce Wu

Centring intersectionality and decolonisation in an online undergraduate gender and development course in Canada pp. 918-924

Geetanjali Gill

Gendered visions beyond development’s impasses: reflections from a UK university classroom* pp. 925-931

Romain Chenet

Walking the tightrope: experiences of teaching gender and development practice pp. 932-945

Lakshmi Lingam and Shewli Kumar

Volume 34, issue 6, 2024

Editorial pp. 667-668

Patrick Kilby

Investing emotions at work: exploring emotional labour of women in Indian anti-trafficking NGOs pp. 669-679

Pranjali Das

Gendered impacts of, and vulnerabilities to, disasters: a case study of Assam pp. 680-694

Bikash Chetry

Marginalisation of women and the predicaments of community-led ecotourism projects in the Chilika Lagoon, India pp. 695-707

Lalatendu Keshari Das

Smallholder farmers’ dissatisfaction with contract farming: a gendered perspective pp. 708-719

S. Wagura Ndiritu

Impact of cash assistance on food insecurity: a snapshot from Rohingya camps during COVID-19 pp. 720-735

Md. Abdul Bari, Md Nazmul Haque, Arifuzzaman Khan, Md. Azad Uddin, Ghulam Dastgir Khan and Yuichiro Yoshida

Benefits of new generation farmers’ collectives: case reflection from an eastern state of India pp. 736-756

Soumyadeep Das and Ritambhara Singh

Feminist and youth-led approaches to transforming social and gender norms in South and South-East Asia pp. 757-764

Imogen Davies, Sharanya Sekaram, Kristine Valerio, Anam Parvez Butt, Leah Kenny and Saskia van Veen

Women’s perspective on land governance in the urban periphery of Ibadan, Nigeria pp. 765-781

Taiwo Oladapo Babalola, Clement Anguh Nkwemoh, Adeola Oluwabunmi Williams, Ayobami Popoola and Olajumoke Ololade Tunji-Adepoju

Delivery of services and agricultural technologies through farmers' hubs pp. 782-795

M. Nahid Sattar, Sarina Macfadyen, Md. Wakilur Rahman and Fahana Tahi Tiza

Dynamics of investment in agriculture in Burkina Faso pp. 796-809

Eun Jeong Lee

Women's empowerment in water management across Africa pp. 810-823

Soufiane Haddout, Lidia Cardoso, António Mubango Hoguane, K.L. Priya, Joan Cecilia C. Casila, Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan and I. Ljubenkov

Volume 34, issue 5, 2024

Editorial pp. 535-536

Emily Finlay

Waste pickers’ cooperatives: social and environmental impacts in the recycling value chain in Cordoba, Argentina pp. 537-554

Celina N. Amato, M. Buraschi and S. D. González

Conflict sensitivity and activism: insights from Cambodia's resource conflicts pp. 555-567

Dustin Barter

The peace dilemma in the triple nexus: challenges and opportunities for the humanitarian–development–peace approach pp. 568-584

Summer Brown, Rodrigo Mena and Sylvia Brown

Collaborator or quasi–grant maker? Revealing the dissonance in international development charities’ partnership representations pp. 585-596

Helen Abnett

The politics of the targeting and expansion of pro-poor programs in Ghana pp. 597-610

Zechariah Langnel and Desmond Tweneboah-Koduah

The COVID-19 pandemic and dynamics of livelihood assets in the Kwahu South District of Ghana: determinants and policy implications pp. 611-632

Ametus Kuuwill and Jude Ndzifon Kimengsi

The Rohingya repatriation myth: why repatriation from Bangladesh to Myanmar is (nigh) impossible pp. 633-640

Anthony Ware and Costas Laoutides

Emergence of the new poor in rural India: some reflections pp. 641-647

Soumyadip Chattopadhyay and Partha Pratim Sahu

The people involved in begging in India and their lived experiences during COVID-19 pp. 648-654

Kunal Debnath and Tanmoy Saha

Aiding AIDS: fallouts of a social protection scheme in India pp. 655-660

Suruchi Thapar-Björkert and Ruchika Ranwa

The project in international development: theory and practice pp. 661-664

David Scott

Development in Practice Reviewer of the Year Prize pp. 665-665

The Editors

Volume 34, issue 4, 2024

Editorial pp. 389-390

Patrick Kilby

Understanding the patterns of agrarian transformation: state-mediated commercialisation and deagrarianisation in Kashmir pp. 391-409

Ubaid Mushtaq and Kishor Goswami

Impact of mentoring on the likelihood of getting jobs in the agricultural sector in Benin pp. 410-425

Rodrigue S. Kaki, Donald M. Houessou, Rodrigue C. Gbedomon, Fréjus S. Thoto, Kisito Gandji, Augustin K. N. Aoudji and Gauthier Biaou

Agricultural labour dynamics in small-scale farming systems in rural South Africa pp. 426-436

Siphe Zantsi

The policy–practice gap: a comment on South Africa's land redistribution pp. 437-446

Siphe Zantsi and Rudzani Nengovhela

Determinants of choices of livelihood strategies among young people in Rwanda pp. 447-462

Kangondo Angelique, Wossen Assfaw Tesfamicheal, Mdoe S.Y. Ntengua, Gilead Isaac Mlay and Daniel Ndyetabula

Socioeconomic determinants of income loss during COVID-19 in a mountainous area in Vietnam pp. 463-474

Toai Nguyen, Quyen Nguyen, Minh Le and Vy Tran

Out-migration from tea gardens and its cause and effect: a case of West Bengal, India pp. 475-490

Bhaskar Kumar Kakati

An assessment of capacity building activities for common interest farmer groups in Bangladesh pp. 491-511

Mohammad Golam Farouque, Khondokar H. Kabir, Debashis Roy, Md. Masud Rana and Joseph L. Donaldson

Livelihood challenges faced by women in rural India: exploration of solutions using participatory action research pp. 512-526

Martin Kofi Kanyagui, K. J. Sajithkumar, Yogesh Velankar, Renjith Mohan, P. K. Viswanathan and Natalia Magnani

Economic empowerment programs for women and culturally embedded entrepreneurism: a viewpoint from Solomon Islands pp. 527-531

Michael Spann and Ruth Maetala

ICT and rural development in the Global South pp. 532-533

Frank Rennie

Volume 34, issue 3, 2024

Editorial: Issue 34.3 pp. 253-254

Finlay Emily

Looking beyond organisational approaches to advance communication practice: an examination of development projects in India pp. 255-272

Bhupesh Joshi, Valentina Baú and Paul Ryder

Processes for and outcomes of people’s participation: analysis of participatory planning in the Galapagos Islands pp. 273-287

Oliver James Carrick

Grassroots INGOs as a channel for diaspora philanthropy pp. 288-299

Susan Appe

Adjustments to and innovations in the implementation of qualitative research with people with disabilities: the case of Bangladesh pp. 300-310

Debashis Sarker and M. Adil Khan

Rigour, timeliness, and trade-offs in research: experience from India’s Swachh Bharat Mission pp. 311-324

Jamie Myers, Naomi Vernon and Robert Chambers

Aboriginal-led development – the case of the Warlpiri Education and Training Trust pp. 325-335

Louise Stanley

The suspension of the Democratic Governance Facility in Uganda: the illusion of “politically smart aid” pp. 336-350

Nathan Vandeputte

Understanding and addressing the unintended effects of aid localisation pp. 351-363

Dirk-Jan Koch and Axel Rooden

Developmental pracademics: who they are and why they matter pp. 364-369

Alan Fowler, Angela Crack, Faina Diola, Inés M. Pousadela and Willem Elbers

Uncovering the geographical skew in CSR spending in India and opportunities for impactful allocations pp. 370-379

Abhishek Gawande and Atul Arun Pathak

Social enterprises as effective exit strategies for development NGOs: the case of Bilada in Burkina Faso pp. 380-386

Maxence Couche-Franquet, Pierre-Gilles Duvernay, Benoit Hayman, Justin Veuthey and Hamed Arthur Yo

Food Security pp. 387-388

Patrick Kilby

Volume 34, issue 2, 2024

BRAC at 50: reflecting on 50 years of BRAC contributions to development knowledge and practice pp. 139-145

Nicola Banks, Nusrat Jahan and Imran Matin

Achieving gender equality through challenging social norms: BRAC’s Polli Shomaj program pp. 146-158

Nayma Qayum, Mirza Hassan and Syeda Salina Aziz

Quiet revolution? Women’s collective empowerment and BRAC pp. 159-170

Sohela Nazneen, Maheen Sultan and Nobonita Chowdhury

Innovating new frontiers in service delivery and evidence generation pp. 171-176

Ahmed Mushtaque Raza Chowdhury

Building an equitable future? BRAC’s STAR program and young women’s economic empowerment in Bangladesh pp. 177-187

Nicola Banks, Nusrat Jahan, Tasmiah Rahman, Asma Tabassum, Joydeep Sinha Roy and Shifur Rahman Shakil

The impact of entrepreneurship training and credit on the labour market outcomes of disadvantaged young people pp. 188-210

Tahsina Naz Khan, Anindita Bhattacharjee, Narayan Das, Marzuk A. N. Hossain, Atiya Rahman and Asma Tabassum

Globalising Southern approaches to reducing extreme poverty: policy adoption of BRAC’s Targeting the Ultra Poor graduation program pp. 211-220

Syed M. Hashemi and Aude de Montesquiou

Economic recovery of the new poor created by COVID-19: evidence from Bangladesh pp. 221-237

Mohima Gomes, Nusrat Jahan, Tanvir Shatil, Nabila Tahsin, Narayan Das and Imran Matin

BRAC in Bangladesh and beyond: bridging the humanitarian–development nexus through localisation pp. 238-252

Sophie Roborgh, Nicola Banks, Md. Akramul Islam, K.A.M. Morshed and Jérôme Oberreit

Volume 34, issue 1, 2024

Editorial pp. 1-2

Patrick Kilby

Government enterprise and empowerment program (GEEP) and women’s performance in entrepreneurship development in Nigeria pp. 3-20

Elda Nduka Okolo-Obasi and Joseph Ikechukwu Uduji

Perceptions of sport and women among athletes at a South Sudan national sport event pp. 21-36

Mitsuaki Furukawa

The state of women’s empowerment in fisheries in rural Bicol, the Philippines pp. 37-48

Cherrylyn Labayo

Violence against women in Corregidora, Mexico: the disconnect between women's experiences and stakeholders' views pp. 49-63

Margarita Garfias Royo, Julian Walker, Jyoti Belur and Priti Parikh

Understanding reference groups for norms and behaviour change: the intersection of relationship dynamics and family planning pp. 64-75

Mari Dumbaugh, Alain Manda, Francesca Quirke, Felix Tshibangu and Anjalee Kohli

Embodied empowerment: using embodiment to understand nutrition–empowerment connections pp. 76-91

Katharine McNamara and Sarah McKune

The exclusion of inclusion: A critical analysis of the use of inclusive language in development practice pp. 92-96

Eva Bleeksma and Amara Boumann

Enhancing rural Ghanaian women’s economic empowerment: the cassava dough enterprise pp. 97-114

Peter Asare-Nuamah, Daniella Delali Sedegah, Mavis Anane-Aboagye, Emelia Amoako Asiedu and Rosemary Anderson Akolaa

Determinants of women-owned micro- and small tourism enterprise growth in Bale Zone, South Ethiopia pp. 115-128

Zemene Guadie Tegegne, Tess Astatkie, Desalegn Degu Tebeje, Sintayehu Aynalem Aseres and Versavel Tecleab Haile

Breaking gender barriers in STEM education for achieving the SDG of quality education in Bangladesh pp. 129-135

Nazmul Islam and Amporn Jirattikorn

Unsettled frontiers: market formation in the Cambodia–Vietnam border lands pp. 136-137

Patrick Kilby