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- Designing public sector interventions to mobilise private participation in low carbon development: 20 questions toolkit
- S. Whitley / Overseas Development Institute, 2012
- There has been an increased focus on the importance of the private sector in low carbon development (LCD) and the need for public sector interventions to mobilise the private sector to become more inv...
- Lessons on accountability in forest governance: The Mama Misitu Campaign against illegal logging in Tanzania
- P. Domingo / Overseas Development Institute, 2011
- This Project Briefing examines the experience and lessons of Tanzania's Mama Misitu Campaign for the promotion of better forest governance. Key messages: Social accountability can improve forest gover...
- Adapting to climate change in the water sector
- A. Nicol;N. Kaur / Overseas Development Institute, 2009
- This background note, published by the Overseas Development Institute, provides an overview of the potential risks and vulnerabilities that face the water sector due to climate change. It also summari...
- Rethinking Support for Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change: The Role of Development Interventions
- S. Levine / Overseas Development Institute, 2011
- Change is a constant in the lives of rural people in Africa. People have always had to cope with sudden shocks such as war, rain failures or food price spikes, and with longer-term stresses such as po...
- The future for climate finance in Nepal
- N. Bird (ed) / Overseas Development Institute, 2011
- This report analyses the development effectiveness dimensions of climate finance in Nepal. It offers a forward looking perspective on how climate finance may be administered in the years ahead, focusi...
- Managing change and cultivating opportunity: the case for a capability index measuring countries' ability to manage change
- N. Cantore;K. Ellis;I. Massa / Overseas Development Institute, 2011
- Countries are constantly confronted with financial crises, natural disasters or long-term widespread processes that affect their fundamental structure over time. It is important to understand the capa...
- Effective support to political parties: A missing piece of the governance puzzle
- L. Wild;M. Foresti / Overseas Development Institute, 2010
- Donors have at times been unrealistic about what is politically achievable, and have failed to recognise that imposing reforms without domestic support does not work. Political parties are often si...
- Forest law enforcement & governance: the role of independent monitors in the control of forest crime
- D. Brown;C. Luttrell;A. Casson;R. Cruz;T. Fomete / Overseas Development Institute, 2004
- Illegal logging is an issue of major national and international concern, and combatting it depends of effective enforcement operations to ensire compliance and identify forest crime. This briefing pap...
- Strengthening science–policy dialogue in developing countries: a priority for climate change adaptation
- H. Jones;N. Jones;D. Walker / Overseas Development Institute, 2009
- This report provides a comprehensive overview of Southern perspectives on the interface between science and policy, using examples related to climate change adaptation in developing country contexts. ...
- Responding to a changing climate: exploring how disaster risk reduction, social protection and livelihoods approaches promote features of adaptive capacity
- L. Jones;S. Jaspars;S. Pavanello / Overseas Development Institute, 2010
- How can humanitarian and development approaches help enhance communities’ capacity to adapt to a changing climate? This paper explores how interventions associated with disaster risk reduction (...
