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The following selection provides an example of the wealth of experience of the BCS team.

Community-Company Relationships

  • A. Rani Parker and Fred Wood, Hidden Treasure? In Search of Mali’s Gold-Mining Revenues, Oxfam America 2007.

  • A. Rani Parker and Rose Dakin, “Institutional Analysis and Mapping of Civil Society,” (Scoping report for a multinational mining company), 2006.

  • A. Rani Parker, “A Planning Framework for the USAID-Chevron Partnership in Angola,” USAID, September 2006.

  • A. Rani Parker, “Large Mines and Communities: Understanding and Assessing Company Contributions to Sustainable Development,” Business for Social Responsibility, 2005.

  • A. Rani Parker, “The Public-Private Alliances of USAID in Angola: An Assessment of Lessons Learned and Ways Forward,” USAID 2004.

  • A. Rani Parker, "Prospects for NGO Collaboration with Multinational Enterprises," Ch. 5 in Jonathan P. Doh and Hildy Teegen (eds), Globalization and NGOs: Transforming Business, Government, and Society, Praeger, 2003.

  • A. Rani Parker, "Discovering How Direct Relationship Between Multinational Business and Community Groups can improve Development Effectiveness," George Washington University, School of Business and Public Management, 2003.
Education and Training (By Fred Wood)
  • “Towards a New Policy in Early Childhood Development in Turkey, UNICEF 2007.

  • "Gardens of Mothers and Children," an external assessment for UNICEF with emphasis on costs and benefits, UNICEF, Tirana, Albania, 2005.

  • "Current UNICEF Approaches to Early Learning and Suggestions for Improvement," UNICEF, New York, 2004.

  • "Linkages between ECD, Girls' Attainment in Primary School and other Social Benefits," UNICEF, New York, 2004.

  • Informal Education and Development in Africa, Mouton, the Hague 1974.
Gender Analysis and Power Relations (By Rani Parker)
  • Aid Effectiveness in the Energy Sector, (2006) Energy Update, USAID (3)17.

  • Guidance on Gender Integration in Child Immunization, Child Protection, Early Childhood Development, Girls Education and HIV/AIDS, UNICEF 2002.

  • Gender Relations Analysis: A Guide for Trainers, (1998) Save the Children USA. Available in French and English.

  • A Manual on Gender Analysis Training for Grassroots Workers, 1993, UNIFEM.

Other Resources

A Selection of Other Titles by A. Rani Parker:

  • Vested Interests in Technical Cooperation for Capacity Development, United Nations Development Programme 2002.

  • Sharing Power and Responsibility: North/South Struggles in International Development Practice, National Multicultural Institute 1997.

  • A Girl’s Right to Development, Equality and Peace,  (with A. Clements, V. Jurgenson, A. Penrose and A. Petren) (1995) London: International Save the Children Alliance.

  • Assessing Project Impact: A Practitioner’s Guide to Participatory Evaluation, CEDPA 1993.

  • Human Relations Training: Dealing with Ethnic Conflict, SAWSO 1991.

  • “A Gender Analysis Matrix for Development Practitioners,” Praxis, (1990) Medford: The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.

A Selection of Other Titles by Fred Wood:

  • Education and Social Development in Post-Imperial Ethiopia, Save the Children 2002.

  • “NGOs and INGOs: A Mutually Beneficial Relationship?” Rockefeller Foundation 1991.

  • “Training Malawi’s Youth; the Work of the Malawi Young Pioneers” in Community Development Journal, 1974.

  •  “Developing Educational Alternatives: Some New Ways for Education in Rural Areas,” in World Yearbook of Education: Education and Rural Development, Evans 1973.

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