Development in Practice
Volume 25, Issue 4, 2015
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cdip20/current

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Increasing access to rural maternal health services in Zambia through demand-side interventions
Cathy Green, Miniratu Soyoola, Mary Surridge, Abdul Razak Badru, Dynes Kaluba, Paula Quigley & Tendayi Kureya
pages 450-464
DOI:10.1080/09614524.2015.1027148
Published online: 24 Apr 2015
Abstract
This paper examines a demand-side intervention that significantly increased access to maternal health services in rural Zambia in a context where skilled birth attendance rates had been stagnant for over two decades. Aspects of the intervention design that were crucial to the programme’s success were the participatory and adult learning-centred approach used to mobilise intervention communities, the use of a community volunteer model, and the design’s sensitivity and responsiveness to underlying social factors and problems. The demand-side intervention is already being scaled up in six districts, and is highly suitable for national level scale-up.

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Co-producing a post-trafficking agenda: collaborating on transforming citizenship in Nepal
Open access
DOI:10.1080/09614524.2015.1029436
Nina Laurie*, Diane Richardson, Meena Poudel, Shakti Samuha & Janet Townsend
pages 465-477
Published online: 24 Apr 2015
Abstract
This article discusses how a new agenda on post-trafficking is gaining momentum through academic and activist anti-trafficking collaborations focused on co-producing knowledge with women who have returned from trafficking situations. Co-production of this nature is important as the issues raised by post-trafficking scenarios are largely ignored in anti-trafficking strategies, and the stigmatisation and poverty which women in these circumstances encounter means they rarely have a voice in policy-making. Drawing on research in Nepal, we present four types of co-produced data around transforming citizenship post-trafficking, and reflect on the strategies for generating and using them for advocacy purposes.

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Farmer-to-farmer extension: opportunities for enhancing performance of volunteer farmer trainers in Kenya
DOI:10.1080/09614524.2015.1029438
Evelyne Kiptot* & Steven Franzel
pages 503-517
Published online: 24 Apr 2015
Abstract
Farmer-to-farmer extension (FFE) is playing a complementary role to formal extension services in facilitating the spread of agricultural technologies and improving farmers’ capacities. The effectiveness and sustainability of such programmes depend on volunteer farmer trainers (VFTs) having technical skills and overcoming process-related challenges that hinder them from achieving the desired outcomes. This article uses quantitative and qualitative data collected from seven sites to explore the challenges experienced by VFTs as they share their knowledge on livestock feed innovations in a dairy development project in Kenya. Sustainable opportunities for enhancing VFTs’ performance are discussed.

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Intersection of disability and gender: multi-layered experiences of Ethiopian women with disabilities
DOI:10.1080/09614524.2015.1031085
Hisayo Katsui* & Mina C. Mojtahedi
pages 563-573
Published online: 24 Apr 2015
Abstract
This article explores the intersection of disability and gender through the experiences of Ethiopian women with disabilities using household chores as an example. As these women are often hidden at home, little literature is available on them. Thus this article aims to highlight the lived experiences of women with disabilities who are or have been at home. The interviewed women introduce peer support as an important means to increase their self-esteem and face stigma in their daily lives in a positive manner through dialogue and negotiation. The paper further suggests employing women with disabilities as a means to enable them to play a significant role in development cooperation by changing the status quo towards equality.