ADF's first ten years have shown that African grassroots communities can design and implement projects to address their most basic needs for food, water, and jobs and that an agency of the US government can provide assistance directlyto these groups in a manner that is efficient and effective.
2012/06/01 Dominating the daily news cycle today are the grim realities of grinding poverty, sex trafficking, gender discrimination, child soldiering, HIV/AIDS, failed states, corruption, and environmental breakdown. In the midst of such pain and brokenness, the followers of Christ cannot stand idly by, for...
1996/01/01 World Vision in the Philippines has piloted a new development approach, called the Provincial Development Approach, in the southernpart of Cebu. This issues of The Bridge documents the process of establishing this program, and some of the exciting outcomes over the past eight years.
Based on over 20 years' experience in training NGO staff in enterprise development, this manual provides detailed guidelines for an eleven-day training course whose objective is to enable NGO staff to better assist others trying to start their own businesses. It covers marketing, financial...
2007/01/01 In this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest challenge in a generation to the prevailing view of our economy. For the first time in human history, he observes, "more" is no longer synonymous with "better"―indeed, for many of us, they have become almost opposites....
1986/01/01 This will help the managers of development projects to design and manage their projects well, in particular by emphasizing the importance of forward planning. Covers both starting up and running projects, and working with Northern partner organizations.
Key Resource1992/10/14 This is a set of guidelines, with examples, for development project activities in developing countries, geared towards small community projects and NGDs, with an appropriate technology slant. The authors identify and discuss the roles of the "main movers" in development projects: first, the field...