Argentina
- Capital:
Buenos Aires - Population:
41343201 - Size:
2766890.0 Km2
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- Fighting corruption by improving transparency and access to information
- Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
- Using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), in the last decades countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama and Paraguay have designed and created electronic platforms that make information about...
- Managing conflict through translation: Latin America's experience
- G. Damonte / Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2012
- Experience from Latin America shows how community consultation can be an important strategy used to manage conflict in Extractive Industries activities. This Brief characterises and analyses the different types of local consultation s...
- Multi-actor dialogues for better public policies: lessons from Latin America
- Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
- During the past twenty years, multi-actor dialogues have played an important part in the consolidation of democratic processes in Latin America and in increasing the participation of organised sectors of civil society in defining and ...
- Strengthening capacities for climate change adaptation in mountain ecosystems: the Latin American response
- Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
- In Latin America’s mountain ranges in Central America and the Andes, strategies to build capacities for climate change adaptation have generally been participative in nature and have aimed at improving natural resource conservati...
- Oil industry investment policies
- Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
- This Brief presents a concise overview of the context of the Latin American (LA) oil industry and its performance. It analyses the advantages and disadvantages of the three main investment models followed, focusing primarily on the po...
- Focus cities programme: multi-stakeholder participation in city governance
- Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
- Cities are challenged by a variety of environmental problems, most of which are associated with failures in the way urban growth is planned and managed. The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) set up the Focus Cities Rese...
- Urban upgrading with social inclusion: the case of Villa Tranquila
- Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
- The case study of Villa Tranquila (VT) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, shows the power of a slum upgrading process centred on a local policy of social inclusion. The intervention was characterised by an integral approach: urban problems w...
- Addressing the urban environmental challenge in integral and inclusive ways
- Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
- Integrated urban environmental plans developed in different Latin American countries show how to reduce systemic challenges in urban areas. Overcoming multi-dimensional urban issues requires a holistic view that includes channels for ...
- Land ceilings: reining in land grabbers or dumbing down the debate?
- GRAIN, 2013
- Governments in a number of countries are trying to address concerns about land grabbing by closing their borders to foreign investors. Are these restrictions effective? Not really, says GRAIN. They give the impression that some...
- Enhancing South-South and triangular cooperation: study of the current situation and existing good practices in policy, institutions, and operation of South-South and triangular cooperation
- United Nations Development Programme, 2009
- South-South and triangular cooperation has become a major subject of international development discussions. One of the key issues identified in such discussions is the lack of information on South-South and triangular cooperation impl...
- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (National Institute for Agricultural Technology), Argentina
- INTA is a public decentralised body subordinated to the Argentinian Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food. It aims to carry out and foster actions addressing the innovation of agricultural and livestock, agro-food and agro-industrial sectors to contribute to the competitiveness of agro-industrial chains, environmental health and sustainability of productive systems, social equi...
- Asociación por los Derechos Civiles / Association for Civil Rights (ADC)
Argentinian governance and human rights organisation
- Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales [ES] (CLACSO)
- CLACSO es una red internacional, no-gubernamental y sin fines de lucro dedicada a promover la investigación, discusión y difusión académica en diversos campos de las ciencias sociales. Sus principales actividades estan orientados hacia la investigación, información y documentación, formación, asesoramiento y capacitación,difusión. WWW Debates en temas sociales en ciencias en América Lati...
- Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales, Universidad Nacional de La Plata (CEDLAS)
- CEDLAS is a research institute that studies distributive, labour and social problems in Central and Latin America. It is part of the faculty of economic sciences, at the National University of la Plata. Research topics include: income distribution and inequality ethnicity and the millennium development goals growth and income poverty gender The centre has worked in collabora...
- Asociacion Civil por la Igualdad y la Justicia, Argentina (ACIJ)
- The Civil Association for Equality and Justice (ACIJ) is a non-profit and non-partisan advocacy organisation, which aims to reinforce representative institutions, ensure a greater compliance with the law, and prevent institutional deficiencies which generate social inequity, unjust privileges, corruption and lack of transparency in Argentina. The organisation uses the following tools: civi...
- Facultad de Ciencias Economicas, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina
- The faculty of economic sciences is part of the National University of Cordoba, Argentina. The faculty offers a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses. The faculty is divided into three institutes: the institute of administration the institute of economy and finance the institute of statistics and demography Courses include international economy, sociology, and growth,...
- Instituto Social y Político de la Mujer, Argentina (ISPM)
- The Social and Political Institute of the Woman (ISPM) is a multidisciplinary NGO working in the social, academic and political fields with the purpose of contributing to improve changes in women's conditions and modifying the society's behavior at large. The institute key activities are concentrated in the following areas: women's human rights political and union participation social...
- Fundación YPF / YPF Foundation, Argentina
- Supporting students through scholarships and educational programs
- Centro Latinoamericano para el Desarrollo y la Comunicacion, or the Latin American Center for the Development and the Participative Communication, Argentina (CDESCO)
- Using audio-visual education tools to promote rural and urban development in Latin America
- Instituto de Estudios para la Sustentabilidad Corporativa, Argentina (IESC)
- Centre providing education and training on sustainable growth and development for organisations in the private, public and non-profit sector.
