Nicaragua
- Capital:
Managua - Population:
5995928 - Size:
129494.0 Km2
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- The BLDS print collection
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Browse all the latest print documents from the British Library of Development Studies...
- Climate risk management for the health sector in Nicaragua
- M. Keller / United Nations Development Programme, 2013
- Commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme’s Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (UNDP BCPR), under the Climate Risk Management Technical Assistance Support Project (CRM TASP), this report addresses climate r...
- Local governments and indigenous peoples
- D. Gomez 2011
- This brief presents the outcomes of the Regional Seminar on Local Governments and Indigenous Peoples held in Chiapas, Mexico, on April 15th and 16th 2010. The report records the content, analysis and conclusions of the seminar based o...
- Global assessment of how countries have been affected by weather-related loss events
- S. Harmeling; D. Eckstein / Germanwatch, 2012
- This report analyses the extent to which countries have been affected by weather-related loss events. It warns that the window for putting the world on a track to stay below two degrees Celsius is rapidly closing and preparations must...
- Social norms marketing aimed at gender based violence: a literature review
- E Paluck; L Ball / International Rescue Committee, 2010
- This review focuses on programmes that use social norms marketing as a way of reducing gender based violence, particularly in conflict affected areas. It looks at the ways such programmes have been designed, implemented and evaluated,...
- Is weather index based insurance an efficient tool for agricultural risk management in developing countries?
- C. Banerjee; E. Berg / AgEcon Search, 2012
- International development organisations, through partnerships with local insurance companies, have been promoting weather index based insurance (WIBI) in developing countries. This paper sheds light on Nicaraguan groundnut based WIBI ...
- From social safety net to social policy? The role of conditional Cash transfers in welfare state Development in Latin America
- F Bastagli / International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2009
- Since the early 1990s, conditional cash transfers (CCTs) have been adopted by countries across Latin America as central elements of their poverty reduction strategies. CCTs share three components in common: a cash transfer, a targetin...
- Southern voices on climate policy choices: analysis of and lessons learned from civil society advocacy on climate change
- H. Reid / International Institute for Environment and Development, 2012
- Since the beginning of international climate change negotiations, civil society has worked alongside governments in shaping global agreements and keeping an eye on the implementation (and sometimes the lack of implementation) of these...
- Strategies for Policy Reform, Volume 2: Engaging Entrepreneurs in Democratic Governance
- K. E. Bettcher / Center for International Private Enterprise, 2010
- Strategies for Policy Reform, Volume 2 reveals how local reformers in partnership with the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) have transformed policy dialogue in their countries to create a vibrant private sector and c...
- Using the Maya Nut tree to increase tropical agroecosystem resilience to climate change in Central America and Mexico
- P. Buffle / Ecosystems and Livelihoods Adaptation Network, 2011
- Climate predictions for Central America point to an intensification of dry conditions as a consequence of increases in temperature, to severe water stresses, and resource deterioration, as a result of the combined impacts of climate c...
- Central America carbon finance guide
- Energy and Environment Partnership with Central America, 2007
- This guide represents the collective analysis of the seven Central American nations on their efforts at reducing carbon emmissions both locally and by acting as sinks. These nations have effectively partned with the government of Finl...
- International People's Health Council (IPHC)
- South-North network striving for health and rights of all people
- Union nacional de agricultores y ganaderos (UNAG)
- La UNAG es una organización gremial empresarial, de carácter nacional, que aglutina productores y productoras afiliados / as y representantes del Estado y terceros. Contribuye al desarrollo económico, social y sostenible, para la democratización económica, generando y transfiriendo tecnologías, promoviendo la protección y uso adecuado de los recursos naturales y del medio ambiente para mejorar la...
- Asociación de Organizaciones Campesinas Centroamericanas para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo (ASOCODE)
- ASOCODE se define como instrumento de los campesinos, campesinas e indígenas; es un espacio de encuentro, reflexión y acción. Esta asociación pretende continuar desarrollando un proceso de institucionalización, para consolidar la unidad en la diversidad y sus identidades, ASOCODE se plantea como protagonista y forjadora de un proyecto económico-gremial-político equitativo, como una alternativa más...
- Coordinadora Civil para la Emergencia y la Reconstrucción, Nicaragua (CCER)
- La CCER es una coalición de más de 350 movimientos sociales, organizaciones no gubernamentales, organismos comunales, redes sectoriales, territoriales, asociaciones de productores y productoras, gremios, federaciones y grupos que trabaja en conjunto para participar activamente en las labores de emergencia.
