Service delivery on the cheap? Community-based workers in development interventions;Prestation de services à bon marché? Les travailleurs communautaires dans les interventions de développement

Development in Practice

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 41-58

  Boesten, Jelke ^a   Mdee, Anna ^b   Cleaver, Frances ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aid; Social sector; Sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABILITY; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; DEVELOPMENT AID; DRINKING WATER; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; NEOLIBERALISM; WATER MANAGEMENT;

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA;

EID: 79951804666     PISSN: 09614524     EISSN: 13649213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2011.530230     Document Type: Article

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