Themes

HIV/AIDS project in Ghana

The HIV/AIDS project in Ghana was initially funded by a Catholic aid agency to reduce the incidence of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infe... read more

Inter-relationships

The project failed to grasp the inter-relationships necessary to run a successful micro-credit scheme, which spilled over to other aspects of the p... read more

Perspectives

In workshops I’ve run, participants identified several ways of seeing the Ghana project and discussed how these perspectives shed light on what is... read more

Boundaries

When explored more deeply, poor assessments of boundary issues were a major contributor to the problems the project encountered. Entrenched values... read more

Donatella della Porta

Donatella della Porta is professor of sociology in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She has carried out research at Cornell University, USA, and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Germany. She has coordinated various EU-funded research projects, and now directs the Democracy in Europe and the Mobilisation of Society (DEMOS) project.