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The assessment task / Jan Horwath -- The assessment process : gathering information / Jan Horwath -- The assessment process : making sense of the information, analysis and forming judgements / Danielle Turney, University Of Bristol, And Dendy Platt -- Effective communication with children and young people / Audrey Tait, Captains Road Social Work Centre, Edinburgh And Helen Wosu, University Of Edinburgh -- Open door : involving pre-school children / Ruth Marchant, Triangle, UK -- Assessments involving young people with complex needs / Ruth Marchant -- Engaging parents in the assessment process / Danielle Turney And Gillian Ruch, University Of Sussex -- Multidisciplinary participation in assessment from early help to child protection / Julie Taylor, University Of Birmingham, Dawn Hodson, NSPCC, UK And Patrick Neil, Consultant, Oxford -- Assessing parenting capacity / Liz Hadcroft, Consultant, Norfolk And David Jones, Oxford -- Assessing parenting: contemporary perspectives on parenting / Stan Houston, Queen's University Belfast -- Assessing parental motivation and ability to change / Dendy Platt And Katie Riches -- The impact of parenting issues on parenting capacity / Michael Murphy And Michaela Rogers, University Of Salford -- Assessing the developmental needs of the child / Aideen Naughton, NHS Wales -- Assessing health needs / Jane Appleton, Oxford Brookes University -- Assessing educational needs / Christine Gould And Barbara Lawrie, Yorkshire -- Emotional and behavioural development : the importance of attachments / David And Yvonne Shemmings, University Of Kent -- Assessing the needs of asylum seeking and trafficked children / Emma Palmer, University Of Lancaster -- Assessing the needs of young people who sexually abuse / Simon Hackett, University Of Durham -- Assessing the needs of young carers / Katherine Bishop, Research In Practice, Sheffield -- Identifying the needs of young people leaving care / Emily Munro, University Of Bedfordshire -- Pre-birth assessments / Jane Barlow, University Of Warwick -- Assessing cumulative harm in cases of emotional abuse and neglect / Jan Horwath -- Assessing possible physical abuse / Arnon Bentovim And Stephen Pizzey, The Child And Family Practice, London -- Assessing possible sexual abuse in the family / Arnon Bentovim, Stephen Pizzey And Jenny Gray -- Assessing possible child sexual exploitation and on-line abuse / Emilie Smeaton, Paradigm Research, York -- The impact of poverty on vulnerable children and families / Dave Backwith, Anglia Ruskin University -- Family and community support needs for vulnerable families / Dave Backwith -- Working with cultural & religious diversity / Claudia Bernard, Goldsmiths, University Of London; Contributor Bios -- Index

Introduction -- Overview of the contemporary global context : life stories -- Data on poverty, hunger, and inequality in an age of globalization -- The goals and structure of this book -- Development theory and practice : an overview -- Origins of the concept of development -- Modernization theory -- Modernization theory and U.S. aid policy -- The impact of modernizationist development -- Structuralist economic theories -- Dependency theories -- Basic needs approach -- New international economic order -- Alternative development -- The impact of reformist thought on development policy -- Neoliberal resurgence and structural adjustment policies -- Current debates in development studies -- The failures of modernizationist development : a closer look -- The impacts of colonialism and slavery -- Post-WW II development policies and the third world debt crisis -- Consequences of debt and structural adjustment -- Responses to the debt crisis -- United States opposition to social change in the third world -- Summary of major structural influences on the third world -- Catholic social teaching and development -- CST prior to Pope John XXIII -- Early reflections on development : John XXIII and Vatican II -- The pivotal contributions of Paul VI, the Latin American bishops, and justice in the world -- John Paul II : the centrality of solidarity -- The social ethics of Benedict XVI -- Summary of catholic social teaching on development issues -- Catholic social teaching and political economy : neoconservative and radical critiques -- Neoconservative reflections on CST -- Radical reflections on CST -- Evaluation of neoconservative, radical, and CST views -- Grassroots critics of development and neoliberal globalization -- Rejecting the quest for development - Vandana shiva : the violence of development and reductionist science -- Further issues in the development/globalization debates -- Reclaiming the commons : the positive visions of development critics -- Catholic social teaching, the radical tradition, and development critics -- Grassroots action and policy alternatives -- Grassroots organizations in the third world : an overview -- The impact of grassroots organizations -- Development policies : follow the nic model -- Alternative development policies -- Differing visions : alternative development vs. regeneration -- Prospects for the adoption of alternative policies -- Re-envisioning C atholic social teaching -- The contributions of CST to the development debate -- Enhancing Catholic social teaching -- Structural analysis of capitalism -- Women, development, and CST -- CST, modernization, and cultural diversity -- CST and ecology - CST, grassroots movements, and social struggle -- The church and social change -- Social criticism and pioneering creativity : how Christians can constructively address issues of development and globalization -- Education -- Lifestyle choices -- Responsible purchasing -- Responsible investment -- Organizing, activism, and aid provision -- Direct service/solidarity -- Responsible parenting -- Applying CST in the life of the church -- Concluding reflections -- Theological epilogue: The path of discipleship

Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- Introduction -- E-development as a holistic vision -- The eSri Lanka program -- Learning from eSri Lanka -- Developing e-leadership institutions -- An institutional innovation in e-leadership: the ICT Agency of Sri lanka -- The institutional model -- Evolution of the authorizing environment and governance model -- Mandate -- Paths to sustainability -- Core competencies -- Partnerships -- A learning organization -- Role of aid agencies -- Lessons and conclusions -- Annex 2.1 The ICT agency in search of a corporate identity -- Annex 2.2 The ICT policy framework & the organizational structure of the ICT agency -- Annex 2.3 Internal and external risks facing the ICT agency at inception -- Managing results -- Objectives of monitoring and evaluation for eSri Lanka -- Framework for monitoring and evaluation -- Arrangements for monitoring and evaluation -- Emerging lessons -- Annex 3.1 Results framework for monitoring and evaluation -- Outcome indicator -- ICT human resource development and industry promotion -- Transforming government -- Best practices and options for planning and implementing e-government -- Approaches to planning e-government -- Implementation of e-government: four phases -- Leadership, partnership, and change management -- Providing leadership, building partnerships -- Conclusions and implications -- Readiness for e-government: a historical perspective -- History of e-government in Sri Lanka -- Analysis of the situation -- Findings and recommendations -- A vision of e-government -- Motivations and aspirations -- Challenges to realizing the vision -- Lessons learned: a postscript -- A strategy for e-government: initial priorities and lessons -- Planning for e-services -- Building e-governance -- Implementation agenda -- Early experience and lessons -- Annex 7.1 Criteria for determining impact & feasibility of offering services online -- Determining impact -- Determining feasibility -- Empowering communities -- Innovation in ICT use for poverty reduction -- Bottom-up planning and participatory development -- Serving the bottom of the pyramid -- The user innovation revolution -- Demand-driven ICT-enabled development -- Financing ICT innovation: lessons from InfoDev -- Conditions for ensuring impact by small grants -- Strategies for soliciting and funding good proposals -- Evaluating proposals and making funding decisions -- Good practices in managing a small-grant program -- E-society: design and early experience -- Overview of the fund -- Practices in soliciting and funding proposals -- Arrangements for implementation and monitoring -- Early operation and lessons learned -- Key lessons of eSri Lanka -- Designing and implementing a holistic framework for e-development -- Developing e-leadership institutions -- Transforming government -- Empowering communities -- Appendix 1 Main program components of eSri Lanka -- ICT policy, leadership, and institutional development program -- Information infrastructure program -- Reengineering government program -- ICT human resource capacity-building program -- ICT investment and private sector development program -- E-society program -- Appendix 2 Selected indicators for Sri Lanka and comparators -- Bibliography -- About the author

Session 1: Setting the framework : why is rural finance an issue in China? Han Jun: The creation of a favourable environment in rural China : current situation and future prospects Scott, David ; Druschel, Kathleen: Institutional issues and prerequisites for efficient savings mobilization and allocation in rural and lesser developed regions in China Zhang Hongyu: The system of Chinese rural financial organisations : achievements, shortcomings and institutional renewal Thompson, John: Financial system and financial regulatory policies in China and their impact on rural finance reform Session 2: Private and co-operative banking for China's rural areas Ma Xiaohe: The difficulties and policy reform in China's rural finance Empel, Gerard von ; Smit, Lissy: Development of sustainable credit co-operatives in China Dickie, Paul: Rural banking in emerging Asian markets : lessons for China Wang Wenjun: The regulatory framework for rural credit co-operatives : the role of Chinese supervisory authorities Yaron, Jacob: From old to new roles of government in establishing sound rural financial institutions Session 3: Complementary commercial credit schemes and institutions in rural areas He Guangwen: Economic and financial transformation of rural China and diversification of rural financial institutions Skees, Jerry ; Barnett, Barry: Challenges in government facilitated crop insurance Slangen, Anthon: Pre-conditions for successful contract farming and other trade/credit arrangements between agribusiness and farmers Llanto, Gilberto ; Fukui, Ryu: Innovations in micro-finance in South-East Asia Swinnen, Johan ; Dries, Liesbeth: Vertical contracting and farm finance : lessons from transition countries Session 4: Micro-credit institutions and arrangements for rural areas Hu Biliang: Active informal financing in rural China : a case study of rotating saving and credit associations in a Chinese village Park, Albert ; Ren Changqing ; Wang Sangui: Micro-finance, poverty alleviation, and financial reform in China Du Xiaoshan: Attempts to implement micro-finance in rural China Fukui, Ryu ; Llanto, Gilberto: Rural finance and micro-finance development in transition countries in South-East and East Asia Pairault, Thierry: Funding small businesses in Chinese Taipei : from informal micro-finance institutions to formal banking institutions Annex Chen Fan: Analysis of the supply and demand for credit funds for peasant households Chen Liangbiao: Practical experience with rural commercial banks : a case study of the reforms of rural credit co-operatives in China's Jiangsu province Li Na: The challenges and contradictions currently faced by agricultural insurance in China and some solutions Luo Ming: Rural financial services : the supply and demand situation, issues and strategies Ouyang Haihong: The liberalisation of interest rates and increasing farmers' income in China

"A new history of liberalism which argues that liberalism has been predicated on definite morality and should be viewed as an attempt to encompass both fear and hope. Liberalism, argues Alan Kahan, is the search for a society in which people need not be afraid. Freedom from fear is the most basic freedom. If we are afraid, we are not free. These insights, found in Montesquieu and Judith Shklar, are the foundation of liberalism. What liberals fear has changed over time (revolution, reaction, totalitarianism, religious fanaticism, poverty, and now populism) but the great majority of liberal thinkers have relied on three pillars to ward off their fears and to limit the concentrated power that causes fear: freedom, markets, and morals, or, to put it another way, politics, economics, and religion or morality. Most liberal thinkers emphasize one or two pillars more than another, but it is typical of liberalism down to the Second World War to rely on all three, although there were always minority voices who preferred to stand on only one leg. After WWII, "thin" procedural/market liberals, who wanted to strip any moral or religious basis or purpose from liberalism, dominated "thick" liberal moralists, who thought liberalism needed a moral basis and/or goal. It is the political contention of this book that liberalism is most convincing as program, language, and social analysis when it relies on all three pillars, and that the relative weakness of liberalism at the end of the twentieth century had much to do with neglect of the moral pillar of liberalism. Its historical contention is that for much of the past two centuries it did rely on all three pillars. But Kahan also argues that liberalism is not only a party of fear. It is also a party of hope, or the party of progress. Many of the contradictions typical of liberalism derive from the seemingly contradictory effort to encompass both hope and fear. If in case of conflict fear often trumps hope for liberals (loss aversion applies in politics as much as in economics), and utopia is subject to indefinite postponement, progress in personal autonomy and development has always been at the heart of liberalism. Liberals typically support their hopes on the same three pillars of freedom, markets, and morals which they use to ward off their fears. Nevertheless, in one respect those historians and political theorists who identify liberalism with laissez-faire economics are not wrong. It is characteristic of liberalism then that it bases its hopes not on the state but on civil society, which for liberals is the common source of a free politics, a free market, and of morals. Alan S. Kahan is Professor of History at the Université de Versailles. His previous books include Tocqueville, Democracy, and Religion: Checks and Balances for Democratic Souls (Oxford 2015), Alexis de Tocqueville (Continuum Books) and Mind vs Money: The War Between Intellectuals and Capitalism (Transaction Publishing, 2010)"--

What can science, technology and innovation offer in the achievement of sustainable development goals? / Ademola A. Adenle, Marian Chertow, Ellen H.M. Moors and David J. Pannell -- Learning to innovate : the global institutions for biodiversity innovation in the sustainable development goals / Casey Stevens -- Energy technologies for sustainable development goal / Govinda Timilsina and Kalim U. Shah -- Linking solar energy systems to sustainable development goals in Africa : recent findings from Kenya and South Africa / Ademola A. Adenle -- Comparing renewable energy micro-grids in Cambodia, Indonesia and Laos : a technological innovation systems approach / Tobias S. Schmidt, Nicola U. Blum and Catharina R. Bening -- Fostering sustainable development goals through an integrated approach : phasing-in green energy technologies in India and China / René Kemp, Babette Never and Serdar Türkeli -- Financing environmental science and technological innovation to meet sustainable development goals in Brazil / Mariana Machado and Carlos Eduardo F. Young -- The systems science of industrial ecology : tools and strategies toward meeting the sustainable development goals / Marian R. Chertow, Koichi S. Kanaoka, T. Reed Miller, Peter Berrill, Paul Wolfram, Niko Heeren and Tomer Fishman -- Automated vehicles and sustainable cities : a realistic outlook to 2030 / Rui Wang and Christopher Oster -- The role of technology and rebound effects in the success of the sustainable development goals framework / David Font Vivanco and Tamar Makov -- Vaccine innovation and global sustainability : governance challenges for sustainable development goals / Cristina Possas, R.M. Martins and Akira Homma -- The role of development-focused health technology assessment in optimising science, technology and innovation to achieve sustainable development goal 3? / Janet Bouttell, Eleanor Grieve and Neil Hawkins -- Anti-malarial drug development and diffusion in an era of multi-drug resistance : how can an integrated health framework contribute to sustainable development goal? / Freek de Haan and Ellen H.M. Moors -- Digital health : how can it facilitate progress on meeting sustainable development goals in China? / Simon K. Poon, Yiren Liu, Ruihua Guo and Mu Li -- Responsive and responsible science, technology and innovation for global health / Nora Engel, Agnes Meershoek and Anja Krumeich -- A systemic perspective on the global sanitation challenge--insights from socio-technical dynamics in Nairobi's informal settlements / Mara J. van Welie and Bernhard Truffer -- The role of animal-source foods in sustainable, ethical and optimal human diets / Julia de Bruyn, Brigitte Bagnol, Hilary H. Chan, Delia Grace, Marisa E.V. Mitchell, Michael J. Nunn, Kate Wingett, Johanna T. Wong and Robyn G. Alders -- Optimal nitrogen management for meeting sustainable development goal 2 / Kshama Harpankar -- Adoption of integrated crop management technology for poverty reduction and food security : the case of smallholder rice production in Timor Leste / Maria Fay Rola-Rubzen, Renato Villano, Marcolino Fernandes E. Brito, J. Brian Hardaker, and John Dixon -- Two decades of GMOs : how modern agricultural biotechnology can help meet SDGs / Ademola A. Adenle, Hans De Steur, Kathleen Hefferon and Justus Wesseler -- Farmer-prioritized climate-smart agriculture technologies : implications for achieving sustainable development goals in East Africa / Caroline Mwongera, Chris M. Mwungu, Leigh Winowiecki, Peter Läderach, Mercy Lungaho, Kelvin M. Shikuku and Steve Twomlow -- Toward sustainable agri-food systems in Brazil : the soybean production complex as a case study / Cecilia G. Flocco -- Transformation governance for sustainable development : making science, technology and innovation work for small-scale fisheries / Karin Wedig -- Value network analysis for (re)organizing business models towards the sustainable development goals : the case of the agricultural commodity exchange in Malawi / Domenico Dentoni, Laurens Klerkx, and Felix Krussmann -- Making scale work for sustainable development : a framework for responsible scaling of agricultural innovations / Seerp Wigboldus, Laurens Klerkx and Cees Leeuwis -- Conclusions and future policies for meeting the sustainable development goals / Ademola A. Adenle, Marian Chertow, Ellen H.M. Moors and David J. Pannell.