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Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Children, Young People and the 'Mobilities Turn' in Sub-Saharan Africa -- The 'New Mobilities Paradigm': Building Non-Western, Youth-Focused Perspectives -- Contextualising Embedded Daily Movements Within a Politics of Mobility -- Walking: Its Conceptual and Methodological Importance -- Gendered Young Lives in Africa: Thinking About Age, Gender and Mobility in the Everyday -- Relationality and the Significance of Household Composition for Mobility Patterns -- Conclusion -- A Note About Authorship

This article reflects on a series of collaborative studies led by the author where co-investigation with peer-researchers has played a central role. The first concerns work with young people, trained to enable them to participate as peer-researchers in a child mobility study in Ghana, Malawi and South Africa; the second a research project on youth and mobile phones, in which some of those young peer-researchers have a continued involvement; the third a study of older people's mobility in Tanzania, conducted in collaboration with an international NGO. Experience in these projects illustrates the complexities of co-investigation, not least the ethical concerns which have to be addressed when working with commonly marginalized people, whatever their age, but it also highlights the potential rewards which such collaborations can bring to individual peer-researchers, to academic research quality and, in the longer term, towards better policy and practice.

This paper is concerned with the factors that influence and constrain NGO contributions to poverty reduction in a globalizing world, focusing on their role as transmitters of grounded knowledge about poverty in very poor countries. Interviews with staff in 33 NGOs in Ghana, a country where the NGO sector is heavily dependent on overseas funding, indicate that local understandings about poverty are being overridden by so-called programmes of partnership support that erode local confidence in home-grown ideas about poverty and how to combat it. This is illustrated by reference to the common donor preference for working with groups and for 'Asian' development approaches.

Porter reviews 'Reframing Deforestation: Global analysis and local realities: Studies in West Africa' by James Fairhead and Melissa Leach.