Citizenship and governance
- Children as informed participants in governance
- In the recent past some progressive researchers have provided the space for children to ‘participate’ more intimately in the research process by giving them the role of information providers, key informants or data collectors. The impact of such research has been more beneficial to children and the resulting policies more constructive. This paper gives an overview of this from of participatory research.
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- Integrating climate change and sustainable development in Asia
- ( Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) / Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan , 2008)
- Based on strategic research carried out at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), this paper is a summary of current climate change policies in Asia-Pacific. It explains why it is n...
- How are major cities in East Asia responding to climate change?
- ( World Bank , 2008)
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This primer is a guide for local governments in East Asia to help them understand the concepts and consequences of climate change and how climate change consequences contribute to urban v...
- Bee-keeping in Southern Ethiopia: development interventions must recognise indigenous knoweldge
- ( A. Shiferaw;B. Dindamo;K. Berhe;A. Tegegne;D. Hoekstra / International Livestock Research Institute , 2008)
- Honey is one of the priority commodities of the Alaba special woreda (district) of Southern Ethiopia. While indigenous knowledge provides the cultural basis for bee-keeping in the woreda, efforts are ...
- How have China's development policies impacted Tibeten pastoralists?
- ( M. Foggin / Plateau Perspectives , 2008)
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Tibetan grasslands constitute one of the most important grazing ecosystems in the world and encompass the source areas of many major Asian rivers. While a variety of government policies have been a...
- Understanding participatory approaches to aid targeting
- ( D. Maxwell;J. Burns / Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University , 2008)
- With a focus on Southern Sudan, this paper examines community participation through the food aid program cycle, both retrospectively (during the war) and currently. It aims to investigate the particip...
- Climate change and sub-Saharan Africa: points of vulnerability and potential for adaptation
- ( H. Connor;L. Mqadi;P. Mukheibir / HELIO International , 2007)
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Africa is vulnerable to climate change on two fronts: firstly, because of existing vulnerabilities and secondly, due to capacity limitations for disaster mitigation and inability to adapt to c...
- Participatory conservation in protected areas: lessons learnt from 13 case studies
- ( M. Galvin;T. Haller / NCCR North South , 2008)
- This document compares findings from in-depth research on protected area (PA) management in Latin America Africa, Asia and Europe. It describes how PAs have been managed over the last 50-100 years and...
- How community and faith-based organisations can conduct participatory monitoring and evaluation to improve HIV/AIDS interventions
- ( R. Degnan Kambou;M.K Adams;M. Kaul Shah;X. M.V Mahlalela / Communities Responding to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic , 2006)
- While monitoring and evaluation (M&E) can appear overwhelming and confusing, it should not be assumed that it can only be carried out by professional M&E experts. Organisations ...
- Engaging in Participatory Forest Management in Ethiopia
- ( Farm Africa , 2007)
- Participatory Forest Management (PFM) describes systems in which communities (forest users and managers) and government services (forest departments) work together to define rights of forest resource ...
- Why are local people often resistant to conservation efforts?
- ( G. Holmes / Conservation and Society , 2007)
- This paper presents a framework to understand how conservation is resisted, particularly in protected areas and national parks. Informed largely by James Scott’s concept of ‘everyday ...
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