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Enabling small-scale water providers in Kibera
The small-scale providers are significant actors in the
provision of services to the urban poor. This paper focuses
on preparing pragmatic tasks to enable the water providers
operating in informal settlements and deals with the issues
of price, quality and abstraction. It is conceived in the
context of the present government reforms in Kenya and
addresses the water needs of the urban poor. This is also
part of the present interest of the Water and Sanitation
Program (WSP)- Africa that is working with clients to find
pragmatic ways to achieve the Millennium Development
Goals in Africa
The improvement of the sanitation services in Moshi (Tanzania). Demand Analysis and Sector Regulation
Following an invitation to tender of the French Foreign Office on research on management of urban waste-water in developing countries, a consortium of institutions from France and Tanzania has been created in 2000. The proposition of the consortium has been accepted; it included a research project on the improvement of the sanitation services in Moshi (Tanzania). This research, presented in this document, was divided into two parts: the first one was the analysis of the households' demand; the second one was about the sector regulation.Sanitation, Regulation, Tanzania, Willingness to pay, Demand,
Marc-Henri Piault, Anthropologie et Cinéma. Passage à l’image, passage par l’image
Depuis le milieu des années 1970, des ethnocinéastes réfléchissent aux principes et aux orientations qui devraient être ceux d’une anthropologie visuelle. Marc-Henri Piault est l’un d’eux. Livre-manifeste, Anthropologie et cinéma expose, avec une certaine ténacité, les ambitions d’une sous-discipline qui lui semble en mesure de « conduire à une reconsidération de la discipline dans son ensemble » (p. 260). Si l’anthropologie visuelle n’est pas qu’une nouvelle appellation du bon vieux cinéma e..
Jean-Pierre Bertin-Maghit & Béatrice Fleury-Vilatte, eds, Les Institutions de l’image
Actes d’un colloque sur le thème « Images et sciences sociales », ce livre prolonge les réflexions initiées par Marc Ferro sur les relations entre société, politique et production cinématographique, au moyen de vingt-trois contributions traversées par plusieurs interrogations. Comment les événements sont-ils traités par les cinéastes, quelles questions se sont-ils posés en les mettant en scène ? Leur propos est-il convenable pour les pouvoirs en place et pour le public ? En réponse à ces ques..
Un conseiller critique, un chercheur exigeant, un homme chaleureux
Alors qu’aujourd’hui il semble qu’il n’y ait plus de domaine de prédilection pour l’ethnologie si bien que celle‑ci investit tous les compartiments de la société contemporaine, du garage au nucléaire en passant par les supporters, on a oublié qu’en 1980 l’ethnologie de la France était encore très axée sur le monde rural et restait pour une bonne part ancrée dans les musées. En 1981, après la victoire de la gauche, Jack Lang, devenu ministre de la Culture, décide de faire rentrer dans le Conse..
Identité et patrimoine
How can one interpret the wish to preserve, more and more extensively, the traces, whatever their form, of societies and cultures that have preceded those existing nowadays ? What signifiance can one give to the unrestrained classification of the culture’s common features as heritage ? Amongst other finalities, what is taken in consideration here is the social investment for constituting personal and collective identities to which individuals want to give more consistency and consolidation, and even entrenchment. To this end, the past is subject to different operations, the purpose of which are to transfonn it into cultural heritage. Classified as such, objects and social practices acquire the qualifying virtue which is sought : they symbolise and mark out. Local communities appropriate and encourage this extensive classification as cultural heritage
Quality of abstracts in 3 clinical dermatology journals
Background Structured abstracts have been widely adopted in medical journals, with little demonstration of their superiority over unstructured abstracts.Objectives: To compare abstract quality among 3 clinical dermatology journals and to compare the quality of structured and unstructured abstracts within those journals. Design and Data Sources: Abstracts of a random sample of clinical studies (case reports, case series, and reviews excluded) published in 2000 in the Archives of Dermatology, The British Journal of Dermatology, and the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology were evaluated. Each abstract was rated by 2 independent investigators, using a 30-item quality scale divided into 8 categories (objective, design, setting, subjects, intervention, measurement of variables, results, and conclusions). Items applicable to the study and present in the main text of the article were rated as being present or absent from the abstract. A global quality score (range, 0-1) for each abstract was established by calculating the proportion of criteria among the eligible criteria that was rated as being present. A score was also calculated for each category. Interrater agreement was assessed with a {kappa} statistic. Mean ± SD scores were compared among journals and between formats (structured vs unstructured) using analysis of variance. Main Outcome Measures: Mean quality scores of abstracts by journal and by format. Results: Interrater agreement was good ({kappa} = 0.71). Mean ± SD quality scores of abstracts were significantly different among journals (Archives of Dermatology, 0.78 ± 0.07; The British Journal of Dermatology, 0.67 ± 0.17; and Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, 0.64 ± 0.15; P = .045) and between formats (structured, 0.71 ± 0.11; and unstructured, 0.56 ± 0.18; P = .002). The setting category had the lowest scores. Conclusions: The quality of abstracts differed across the 3 tested journals. Unstructured abstracts were demonstrated to be of lower quality compared with structured abstracts and may account for the differences in quality scores among the journals. The structured format should be more widely adopted in dermatology journals
The improvement of the sanitation services in Moshi (Tanzania). Demand Analysis and Sector Regulation
168pFollowing an invitation to tender of the French Foreign Office on research on management of urban waste-water in developing countries, a consortium of institutions from France and Tanzania has been created in 2000. The proposition of the consortium has been accepted; it included a research project on the improvement of the sanitation services in Moshi (Tanzania). This research, presented in this document, was divided into two parts: the first one was the analysis of the households' demand; the second one was about the sector regulation
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